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The next thing you want to make sure of is –lot of times people when they’re training they want to, they’re getting a habit of just stretching out the lower back and they do that by pushing the hips up nice and high but they forget about the upper back and the shoulder area.

Uh and in capoeira you require full back flexibility. So I like to – I like to teach like this, you go ahead and do the bridge, once you are in the bridge position and you’re hips are as high as they’ll go and you’re holding it, you are as comfortable as you can get in this position you have to go ahead and take your- you going to push your face as far forward as you can, What that does that movement does is it pushes your upper back and stretch-stretches out your shoulders real nice.

Okay, a good way to train this is to get in and out. Start in a push up position with your hands and feet close together, your butt will be up in the air then you’re going to go ahead not go to the side you go ahead and can keep your left hand and left foot on the floor – step your right foot behind your body, you want to take your right hand off the floor flip over to the bridge – push your hips up watch your right hand until it’s on the floor.

At that point you’re going to be in a bridge and you’re going to push forward with your face and hold it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds. From there then you’re going to take your left hand and the left foot off the floor and step them over and continue to do the movement.

That way you can start on one side of the room and you can just kind of rotate into the bridge, rotate back out , rotate into bridge and rotate back out all the way back across the room. Uh if you can do that in both the directions and hold it for 15 seconds or so you’ve got pretty good back strength as well as flexibility which is very necessary for capoeira.

In case you didn’t see the video in part 1 of this series… here it is again.

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