If there’s one thing I’ve learnt about myself is that I choose to learn anything that impresses me. An event only has to raise a smile from me for it to change my life plans and have me swapping my social circle, fashion sense and accent to match. So when I first saw Jean Claude Vandamme perform the splits in ‘Kick Boxing’, I grabbed shoelaces, two traffic cones and ran out into the garden. 30 minutes later I returned with nothing but a sore neck and muddy trousers. My fame in doing the splits was short lived, I returned to the couch and my pain was relived with an episode or two of Tom and Jerry, the former certainly handles pain better than I ever did.
10 years later I’ve decided to carry on from where I left off, and this article marks the start of my training, discovering the benefits of being able to do the splits, how they can be achieved and my current progress. To save you from being disappointed, don’t expect much from me just yet, after a warm up, from afar it still looks like I’m standing…
