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GAME SAFE FALLING is a targeted, ground impact skills training program that turns hard falls into a mere whisper of what they once were.

Trained and prepared, athletes simply walk away from the fastest and hardest falls in their sport - without pain or injury, and all within one second from the start of the fall.

 

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Target 1: Groin Pull Elimination - 360° Hip Stretching with Game Fall's Roll Stretching method.

Groin pulls appear suddenly and are ruthless in their crippling affect on an athlete. In sport after sport they are the most prevalent muscle strain injury.

What Are They? A “Groin pull” itself is simply the over-extension of certain muscles, tendons or ligaments that are attached to the hip. They are stretched beyond their normal capacity causing them to tear, usually because some force is pushing or pulling the leg away or off angle from the hip.

What Can Be Done About Them? To ready the hip-leg muscles for that kind of pushing and pulling, they need to be stretched, that is relaxed. Warm up stretching is something all athletes know about, but such stretching often violates the Three Principles of Successful Stretching, leading to less than fully relaxed muscles.

  1. Stay Focused.
  2. Stay Together
  3. Stay Real

I. Stay Focused. Like most physical exercise, stretching works best if you stay focused while doing it. But, most athletes have other things on their mind when they stretch: what's going to happen in the game today, whether they can finally reach their toes, can they hold a painful stretch longer than the person next to them, how long must they do this, etc. With the mind so busy, it is hard for the body to relax. Just like a ball handling drill, you will drop the ball if your mind is somewhere else.

II. Stay Together. Game Fall stretching is more than just elongating muscles, it is the first chance of the day for your body, breath and mind to get together on one athletic activity. It is only when these three work together that athletes are able to get into the "zone," to play without distraction or confusion at the peak of power and control. Game Fall stretching readies you for this.

III. Stay Real. Your muscles are stretched and move on the field in a continuous connected fashion. In real world competition, the body is not held in one position while a muscle is stretched and there is no "bouncing" in and out of a stretch. So, to mimic reality, your stretching must also keep moving. Game Fall stretching never pauses - you move into a stretch when you inhale, you stretch while you exhale, and you never hold your breath. You roll the part that was stretched, say the leg, perpendicular to its last stretch, thereby keeping the stretch continuous and seamlessly moving from one stretch into the other.

By following these three stretching principles, your muscles are able to relax and elongate to their maximum.

 

Game Fall has its foundation in the martial arts, where groin pulls also occur. By carefully combining leg and hip stretches from various martial arts with those from several allied body arts where flexibility and stretching is emphasized, such as yoga, a simple yet highly effective 5 minute stretching regimen has been developed. You use the new technique of Roll Stretching™. Your stretches are dynamic, open the hip joint, and maximize the ability of the groin muscle groups to lengthen and twist in competition. Not only is every major and minor hip-leg muscle stretched, but each is stretched from many different angles due to the full hip rotation design of Game Fall Roll Stretching.

Game Fall’s Groin Pull Elimination program requires no belts or machines, nor steps, oversized balls, weights or rubber bands. Nor does it require an athlete to be able to do a gymnastic split, kick their foot above their head, or twist their joints to reach some unnatural angle. The purpose of the program is to stretch the relevant muscles in a simple way every day, allowing them to naturally lengthen and develop flexibility over time.


To Game Fall, stretching is not a competition or a goal oriented activity, nor is it something only to be done before heavy exertion, an activity that is merely preliminary to some other “real” training, or about pushing a muscle till it hurts.

 

 

 Is Game Fall Stretching Static, Ballistic or Dynamic?

Static stretching is when you take a stretch and hold it for a set period of time. During a static stretch, you hold your body in one position and either hold your breath or hold the same stretch through a number of breaths. This type of stretching is not the most effective for daily self-stretching routines. It violates stretching Principles II and III by breaking the connection between breath and body movement, and by moving your body in an "unreal" way.

Ballistic stretching (stretch reflex contraction) is commonly known as "bounce" stretching. You count 1 - 5 or more and for every count you drop into the stretch and then release it. While a helpful way to follow Principle I of staying focused on the stretching, it violates principles II and III in the same way static stretching does.

Dynamic stretching has many different definitions and versions. Game Fall created the Roll Stretching™ Method which has elements of Dynamic Stretching.  Roll Stretching means moving continuously in and out of a stretch at essentially the same pace and having the whole body involved with each stretch by rolling the body. This is how the body naturally moves and thus how Game Fall designed its Dynamic Stretching system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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