Dynamic Penches

Dynamic Penches
V and T Flex Circuit Training Students

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Introduction and Overview

About a year-and-a-half ago, we started a small side business to develop and sell "stretch gyms" for maximizing flexibility and range of motion.  The website is still available at:
http://www.stretchgym.com/.  We found that we had a unique niche, were able to get to the top of the major search engines, had over 100K hits on YouTube, but could not make these cheaply enough (or in sufficient quantities).  It's difficult to turn down a continuing stream of purchase orders/requests, but while this business is dormant for now, we did learn quite a bit in the process.

The new V and T Dance studio in Laguna Hills provided a great "proving ground" for our equipment, which we donated in exchange for the opportunity to test our equipment in conjunction with compatible stretching techniques, such as PNF and "resistive stretching".  We started with a "Movement Analysis and Custom stretching" class, which achieved enough positive results that we started conducting the regular weekly stretch class for the academy.  In the process, we transformed it into a "flexibility circuit training" class, which is now nearing its 40th session.

We've just launched an HD YouTube video for V and T Dance, which can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkdZ8z69O3E.  We are very proud of this studio, founded by Victor and Tatiana Kasatsky, well known Russian master teachers of the Vaganova style.  Our 2 daughters (ages 12 and 8) take daily classes, and we almost live at the studio.

There are many reasons why I use the term "distinguished", and many factors that contribute to the quality and uniqueness of their dance instruction.  I will delve into these in later posts for the benefit of parents that may be searching for a dance studio.  For this first post, I just want to mention one: most of the Academy 4 and company-level dancers (ages 8 to 16) are very flexible, which is due in part to emphasis, and (hopefully) in part due to the special stretch circuit training lab we've established.

In upcoming posts, I will describe in illustrated detail how we set up the circuit training, some of the exercises and techniques used, what we learned along the way, and some before and after results.

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