Journey to Splits

I put out the challenge to the girls to get their splits and wow, did they ever respond! Going from this:

 To this:

Lockdown has definitely whittled away most of the daily distractions and the girls were able to focus on their flexibility. They worked on it every day, multiple times a day. They did doorway stretches:

I love how the light is shining right at the tippy top of Liesel's toes!

Eventually they came up with this- which they call "Doorway Jenga"

They used the pillars to work on their standing splits:

They practiced splits upside down:

Gita was the first and oddly enough, it was her left splits (even though she's right-handed). Liesel followed with her right splits. Ireland is nearly there with her right and Sydney is working on them as well. Eventually, they all want to have their 3-way splits and something they call a "roll over" where they begin seated and then roll over their middle splits until they are on their belly. Liesel is already trying to see how far she can get her over splits;

Sometimes I can't believe what I am seeing- the body doesn't usually fling limbs so far and wide apart! Sometimes it makes me cringe because I'm worried they will hurt themselves- even though flexibility will protect them from injury. Mostly I'm incredibly proud of them for going after a goal so relentlessly and for supporting each other as they did it. The next challenge? Mastering a split jump, and Liesel is well on her way: