Help with splits?

Question:I have been dancing for nine years. I stretch consistenly but still can't seem to get a split. I am trying out for the highschool dance team and need some help! I need them very very soon! please help me now!!! i have tried plenty of exercises but just cannot get down!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have been dancing for nine years. I stretch consistenly but still can't seem to get a split. I am trying out for the highschool dance team and need some help! I need them very very soon! please help me now!!! i have tried plenty of exercises but just cannot get down!

keep doing your splits everyday, when you do the splits lean over your front leg and try to touch your nose to your knee then lean back and try to touch the back of your head to your back leg. switch legs.

sit on the floor facing the wall and do a front split and keep pressing towards the wall with your whole body.

sit on the floor and put your legs to the side of your body forming a v and lean over and try to press your body down to the floor. lean over each leg and hold.

lay on the floor at at door way and put your butt against the door frame with one leg against it and put your other leg through the door frame and slowly sit up and hold, then switch legs.

do the splits on the floor but put wieghts underneath your ankles so then you legs and body aren't touching the floor and try to go all the way down

it should take a few weeks, deoends and how much you stretch. I hope I was able to help you.

just wondering, do you dance ballet? if so, then here is a good idea. put one leg up on the barre in second, and then slide out as far as you can. hold this for a few seconds, then slowly slide back. the only other thing you can do that i can think of is just to practice all the time. i myself have been dancing for nine years, and i'm only a few centimeters away! so close! but yet, so far...

I would recommend that you continue to stretch everyday. For our drill team, we do lots of kick routines. Try practicing some kicks as these will help improve overall flexibility. Here's a great website that I've found. It explains the stretches and kicks much better than I could. Give it a look:
http://www.danceadts.com/edsupport/fitne... Especially look at the Do's and Don'ts of kicking because these will be important to know for tryouts.

I hope I helped! Good luck and feel free to email me with more questions ( :