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Wholeheartedly agree! I am feeling much more relaxed, less stiff and less achy after the stretching. Z

@wayneshin Many Thanks for sharing your thoughts and that excellent article. Yes there is much noise about stretching hence the confusion. As the article suggests stretching more frequently is the way to go, with an 8% difference between 3 and 6 times a week. Interestingly the article also suggests training more than once a day. @Spartacus Maximus Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Now as I am in my forties it is getting much harder to maintain flexibility and I'm feeling stiff most of the time, especially the days after a karate class! For now, I'm going to go with daily stretching first thing in the morning and see how it goes. If feeling up to it, I'll stretch in the evening. Z

Hi I've been wondering about how often do you stretch? Is daily stretching of the major muscles too often, are you more likely to get an injury? I'm a little confused as some people say you should stretch every day and others say you should stretch every couple of days. Interested to hear your experiences. Thanks Zahoor

Great recommendation. I've been doing the asian squat for a couple of days now and can manage around 10 minutes, after which I get pins and needles in my feet!

Congratulations on your gold anniversary! This was a very moving post, Thank you! Please continue to share your knowledge and experience with your martial arts family on KF.

This is indeed high unusual and a very extreme behaviour from the potential student! My position is that the student would need to join the dojo and be assessed at the next grading session in 3 months time. Whether he is ready for a particular grade is a decision that the instructor needs to make (not the student), this can be done after he has been observed for a short while and compared to his peers. Whilst training he would need to wear a white belt. When he is graded it would be for whatever level he was deemed to be at. On a related note: I have returned to MA after more than 20 years (thanks to my children) and I remember when we learnt what we were observed in class and the syllabus was revealed over several years. Now I can see the curriculum for any martial and become familiar with it in a couple of hours. I can see commonalities and variations between different MA's and compare them to each other by simply looking at each of the websites. So students can compare and make judgements about what each style is covering and at what level they might fit in. Imho we will start to see this type of behaviour more often. With the availability of the information on the internet, students will study material online in their own time and at their own pace, and then ask to be graded as they think they are ready as they have learnt the material for the curriculum.