Another bonus post featuring our favourite contact sport (after acrobatics, obvs)  

Too many guys just want big muscles and nothing else. That's rarely good for sport (except perhaps power lifting!) - in most cases you need flexibility and endurance as well. For gymnastics, acrobatics, dance and most combat sports, good flexibility is essential. So I thought that we would show off some great examples today. There's one amusing photographic trick in this set - but the stretching is genuine. See if you can spot it. There are also a couple of kewl video clips at the end.     And finally, over to Ukrainian gymnast Alexander Z who shows us his special techniques for combining flexibility and strength training: