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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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The Dees are trying YOGA but can it help you kick accurately?

I've practised Hatha Yoga for years - great for all-round well-being and should help any footballer maintain general flexibility and health.

As for kicking accuracy, not so sure. But if they practice any form of meditation with the Yoga (and I know some footballers do ) this should help concentration and thus maybe accuracy!

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    I agree with the assessment re: benefits of meditation for concentration. There may be a two-fold action - it decreases the impact of irrelevant thoughts/emotions and increases 'deliberateness'. That is turn may increase goal-kicking accuracy. Importantly, it may also help increase general awareness and help ward off the tunnel vision phenomena common when overly focused or anxious/aroused. This mightily depends on the type of meditation used - mindfulness meditatioh may produce this outcome in my opinion. Needs decent research though.

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    I've practised Hatha Yoga for years - great for all-round well-being and should help any footballer maintain general flexibility and health.

    As for kicking accuracy, not so sure. But if they practice any form of meditation with the Yoga (and I know some footballers do ) this should help concentration and thus maybe accuracy!

    I was being facetious with the line about the kicking.

    Godders has been doing it for three years and it hasn't helped him! :rolleyes:

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    I was being facetious with the line about the kicking.

    Godders has been doing it for three years and it hasn't helped him! :rolleyes:

    Hi Rolling, yep, knew you were being facetious - however - and remembering S.Godfrey's underwhelming kicking skills - I believe that the practice of Yoga should help athletes gain that extra edge in flexibility and (just maybe) help them to kick better.

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    Bikram Yoga is a [censored].

    Trust me 90 minutes in the sauna in some pretty uncomfortable positions is not much fun.

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    Bikram Yoga is a [censored].

    Trust me 90 minutes in the sauna in some pretty uncomfortable positions is not much fun.

    Agreed.

    I lasted 10 minutes (felt like an hour)... never again! :o

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