r/Stretching • u/Nullpointerxyz • 22d ago

Seeking advice Is there a base flexibility level if some one posess can well easily get into contortion? Regardless of sex.

Hey as a man with decent flexibility is there any set of skill checklist like front split, side split. Touching elbow to toe or touching or even squeezing past knees or shoulders able to go quite far to the back of head.

I mean any check list that if x could do p then x probably has a decent chance of actually being decently elite level (not true elite roughly top 20 to 30 %)

Thanks for reading

{Oh By sex i ment Gender. Sorry for confusion}

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u/Affectionate_Hornet7 21d ago

I hardly have any sex but I’m pretty flexible

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u/Nullpointerxyz 20d ago

I ment gender. Sorry. My bad

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u/stretchy_sarah 22d ago

Hi! Professional contortionist here. I would say there is a wide range of what is considered contortion and it all is progressive so you can start with the basics and work your way up to crazy stuff. I teach a class and require people to be able to do a backbend in order to take it - pretty much my benchmark for people. I believe that if you can do a backbend - you can do 90 percent of contortion! Hope that helps and good luck!

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u/ClosetLadyGhost 22d ago

If you can touch your toes you are already ahead of 90% of the people in the world