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Two women holding hands and attempting to step inside their arms as part of fun energiser Wring-Out Stretch

Wring-Out Stretch

Complex stretching exercise for dextrous partners.

  • Physically challenging
  • Promotes critical thinking
  • Fosters collaboration
  • No props

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Form into pairs, possibly with someone of similar size.
  2. By way of demonstration, ask a volunteer to stand facing you and hold each other’s hands.
  3. As a pair, your task is to take turns stepping in and then out of the gap formed between your co-joined arms.
  4. One person shall step into the gap first, and then step out of it, effectively twisting your co-joined arms.
  5. Then, the other person follows suit to step into the gap, and out of it to untwist the co-joined arms.
  6. Encourage partners to experiment by taking turns at who steps in first, and entering from different sides.
  7. Then, if time permits, invite people to swap partners.

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Comments (2)

  1. Fabio

    Could you post a video with this exercice? Thank you

    • Mark Collard

      We’re on it. This is the perfect activity to learn from a video tutorial. We hope to upload within the next few months.

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