Hip Stretches for Surfers-The BASICS You Must Know 

cheers man, thanks for the comment, and you're welcome. trust me, I spend a LOT of time on a computer nowadays, so I'm literally working on the same stuff. gotta keep up with the positive inputs to the body to counteract the negative inputs, and stay mobile.

thanks for your interest in my work mick. I need you to understand that I know nothing about you nor have ever assessed you, so I can't answer your questions. If you want to improve "mobility" you need to work on it more than you currently are. to be completely honest, your best bet is to grab my stretches for surfers 2.0 program and start using those routines where all specific direction and parameters are laid out. that program is specific to stretching and then strengthening and loading tissue in the new range of motion. that is the KEY to longlasting change. for example, if you held this stretch in the video for 60seconds, it may lengthen tissue from a neurological perspective, but then you need to load it and train it so the tissue adapts!!! if you don't want to do that, perhaps find some yoga routines on youtube and start doing them consistently. you need to give your body INPUT to adapt. once / week for 30seconds isn't going to do a damn thing to change structure of the body. think of this as a 1 month, 2 month, 4 month, 12 month process where you are invested in your body and have an eye on longevity!

Go watch the newest uploaded Perfect Hip Stretch for Surfers video. I get into those details.

it likely means you don't actually have external rotation of the hip joint, and since you're lacking that you have to tilt everything off to the side to accommodate the lack of ER at the hip joint.

lol....i can relate.

best stretch EVER. hah!

legend! thanks Andrei

glad to hear you've found it insightful! thanks for following along with my work over the years

I've done the majority of the courses for the "practitioner" route of training through the chek institute and some of the HLC courses

Surf Strength Coach ok that’s good to hear I plan on enrolling in his exercise coach program which is what sounds like what you went through. I assume you gained a lot of practical information

Welcome aboard!

get your hip checking out by a professional buddy. that's the best advice I can give you.

I wouldn't say it's common, but it does happen. the tissue from the rectus femoris is likely placing stress into the patellar tendon. try some tennis ball release work to the quad tissue prior to stretching and see if this creates any change.

Glad to hear you got some benefit from the routine. Now just stick with it for some time to reinforce tissue change / adaptation

Thanks ben, I appreciate that.

9090's... FOREVER. ha!