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Many people experience pain the area of their lower back and knowing people that are always walking around rubbing this area is quite commonplace. But what about upper back pain? While you may not hear as much about it, many people have constant and chronic pain in the upper back and shoulder area, or wake up in pain, or suddenly just have jarring and debilitating aches in this area. It’s not uncommon for upper back pain to be accompanied by a stiff neck and shoulders, and some cannot even twist their head or move it at all. Obviously this can cause quite a few problems as we need to move our heads around to do just about anything! So what typically causes upper back pain and what can a person do about it?

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Also known as “Toe Raise”, Calf Raise exercise will help improve and tone your calves muscles. This article is the 4th segment of the How to Jump Higher, which you can read the earlier articles:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

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From the previous posting – How to Jump Higher (part 2), we mentioned about various strength training to improve your base muscles so that you can jump higher.

The first topic we discuss will be Squats.

In strength training, squat is an exercise that trains primarily the muscles of the thighs, hips and buttocks, as well as strengthening the bones, ligaments and insertion of the tendons throughout the lower body.

With good lower limbs strength, it not just aids you in your jumping capability, it also helps you to gain firmer low stance in wushu performance. And for girls, it especially helps to build you lovely butts.

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If you follow the previous post on How to Jump Higher (part 1), there is a youtube video explaining some of the things you need to do or practice to aid you jumping ability.

In this article, we explore further some of the steps introduce from the videos.

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Jumping is a critical skill for many athletes and dancers, that include sports wushu exponent. For the next few days (or weeks) we shall provide you some interesting articles that will cover ways in which you can improve your vertical jumping ability.

It may sound stupid, but for a start, lets us look at How To Jump? At the end of this post, you will see a youtube video on “How to Jump Higher than Michael Jordan.

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And you thought that tai chi is only good for old uncle and auntie to do as a form of regular exercise or for mushin (our forum member) to kick some ass out there…

Well, now there is a new use for Tai Chi…. Massage!

Sufi Bradshaw is trained as a massage therapist at ISPB in the art of Tai Chi Massage.

Click on to see the clip..

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