Practical Benefits: Increase endurance in your lower body (especially hamstrings) while working into hip flexibility, which helps increase the length of your stride and help prepare your body to strongly make sharp cutting motions.
Technique:
1. Start from low lunge (see previous pose) with hands planted on either side of the front foot.
2. Straighten back leg, reaching the back of the knee skyward.
3. Reach your chest off your thighs and rise to balance on the fingertips (or take your hands entirely off the ground).
4. Make a straight line from your back heel to your head.
5. Hold for 30 - 90 seconds.
Tips: Dig down through your front heel to focus on endurance, and pull legs toward one another to engage inner thighs and increase the effectiveness of this exercise. Keep neck in line with spine, gazing about one and a half feet ahead of the front foot.
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