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  • jumpinjeff

    Member
    March 9, 2025 at 7:56 am

    Hi Ron, I wish it were a simple thing but it is really a time and effort game of muscular training that will allow you to do this. There is a “5 day Challenge” in TAC that deal directly with this. These were the most physically challenging exercises I have encountered anywhere. Critical to work these slowly, without tension (and it is going to be difficult to pull that off at first) but they also yielded the most dramatic improvement over time. The way fingers are engineered, they just don’t stretch away from each other on a spread very well on their own. You must train to fire those tiny hand/ wrist muscles in a circular pattern to get them to seemingly stretch apart on their own. This “5 day finger stretch challenge” specifically trains that. There is another skills course that is a stretching course (located under the “Basics” heading in Skills Courses but that is not what you are looking for). You want the “5 day Challenge” “finger stretch” found in the Skills Course section…..watch out for the Wednesday Challenge. It still makes my eyes water : ) These are really great fun!! “5 day” is used repeatedly. It can be confusing.