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STRAIGHTFORWARD HAMSTRING STRETCH Lie on your back with your body straight. Lift your right leg up, and keep it straight; don’t bend your knee. Use your hands to hold the back of your upper leg, and keep lifting your leg up so that your foot is pointed to the sky. Hold this stretch for thirty seconds, then repeat it with your left leg. V-SHAPE THIGH AND GROIN STRETCH Sit on the ground, and position your legs like a V out in front of you, the wider apart, the better, with your back straight and upright. Lean forward, pivoting at your hips, and hold your arms out as you bend as far forward as you can. Hold this for thirty seconds; the further you push forward, the more you’ll feel it on the insides of your legs.

“You’re going to come up the ramp, and you’re not jumping up, you’re jumping forward, but not nose down. You’ve got to be going fast enough to clear the jump, and as you take off the ramp, push through, forward off the ramp.”

– Harry Main, pro BMX rider

Watch Danny Way get ready to jump the Great Wall of China on his skateboard.

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