Originally Posted by Machka

One of my classmates in the yoga class told me that she used to be as inflexible as me, but now can reach way beyond her toes. I asked her how she did it ... was it many years of yoga? A regular stretching plan? And here's what she told me ...

She went waterskiing one day, and everything was going great. Then all of a sudden something happened and one ski shot off one direction, and the other ski shot off the other direction ... and she ended up doing the splits (for the first time in her life). She had torn both hamstrings very badly, was in extreme pain, and was hospitalized a while. But when she healed ... she had flexibility in her hamstrings!
She recommended I avoid that method.