DANCERS : How long did it take you to achieve the splits?

Its not about how long you stretch, its about what stretches you do. It took me about two months to get my right and left splits. What I did was my normal stretches, then I'd do over splits. Just get something that you can rest your front foot on when your splits thats a bit off the ground, then hold that for a minute. It's gonna hurt, but it helps SO much. :) Also, for middle splits, not everyones body is capable of doing that, no matter how flexible. The most flexible girl I know cant get her middle splits ALL the way down and she said its because some peoples ligaments and tendons are capable of stretching all the way, some aren't. or something like that. So don't over do it and pull something major :)

Once I started stretching hardcore regularly, it probably took me about a month. But my hardcore stretchings were twice a week then probably little stretches daily. I would take it easy, to don't want to over stretch your muscles or make your body super sore. Here's a great stretch for the centers (if you haven't learned this already...) Lay on your back in front of an empty wall. Then get close to the wall so your butt is on the wall with your feet against the wall. Let's your feet fall to each side of you and gravity will do the rest. This is good for left and right splits and muscle toning as well. Good Luck! :)

It took me a while because I wasn't consistent. If I was about a month or less.There are a lot of exercises that you can do to help get them sooner. Hope this helped!

Well thats really up to your body just keep on trying just because you stetch everyday doesnt mean your be able to do a split it took me a month to do but i had to be patient.but now i can jump in the air and land on the ground with a perfect spilt you can also look up turtrial videos on youtube.com jope this helps best of luck. (oh if you don't mind can you help me by answering my question just click on my name then click on one of the questions that involves dancing if u don't mine please i need all the help i can get thank you.}

Same as the other answers. Month or so. I saw people got results (not overnight) with this: http://www.discountdance.com/dancewear/style_IF0009.html?pid=1998&Shop=Style&SID=255396269 But different things work for different people :)

about 2 months to be able to do in comforable and easy.

I just got my left one a few months ago and it took all dance year. I have had my right for over 20 years. I don't have the straddle and not trying for it, but if it gets better as I stretch-- bonus... If you are under 6 inches to the floor you may have it by August, more likely the end of the year, if you are more than 6 inches from the ground it will take longer. I can't tell you stretch for 20 mins, when you may need 40 to get a great stretch and feel it. That is up to you... Here are some stretches to help you work on your splits. For the straddle--lay on your back with your butt against the wall. Extend your legs up the wall and then let the fall into the straddle stretch, gravity will help pull your legs down. Hold as long as you can. Repeat a few times. Also when you are doing your normal stretching in the straddle position, right before you are done stretching, lean forward into the middle and then try to pull through the stretch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhiIL6Aojo&playnext=1&list=PL796002DA6BCB9B15 (watch around the 15 sec mark for what I’m referring to) For the other splits--lay on your back, bring a leg into your chest, hold a few seconds, then extend it. Grab your leg and try to pull it as close to you as you can and hold it, repeat a couple of times bending the knee and extending it. On the last extend, while holding your leg, roll over into the splits. Repeat on the other leg. These 2 will need another person to help you---stand against a wall, lift your leg, have your friend lift it as high as they can. And hold it as long as you can. Both knees should be straight. The goal is to touch the wall with your foot (I could do it 20 years ago and now I'm back to with a foot of the wall after 3 years of dance and I'm 33) Repeat with other leg. Next lay on the ground and have your friend push your extended leg towards the ground. Same idea as the stretch above, but it works the muscles in a slightly different way since you are in a different position. One last stretch which will help your splits (and your arabesque penchee). You will need to find a blank spot on a wall and grab a chair. Now facing away from the wall and holding onto the chair for support, take a leg and slide it up the wall like you are going into splits. Hold it for as long as possible then switch legs. Try to keep your legs straight. As you work the stretch move the chair closer to the wall until you are touching the wall in a vertical split. One note—you can also try to do some of the two person stretches solo, by moving into a doorway and working one leg up the frame or down the frame depending on what you are trying to stretch. I just tried a few doorway stretches for the first time and I was able to put my foot against the door frame and got a completely vertical split in the needle position. This link is so you can see what position I’m talking about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yJ4NeuT4k As long as you don’t rush and push yourself too fast, you can really make progress fast. Make sure that you really work both sides as evenly as you can. I never really worked the left leg and it's no where near as flexible as my right. I have had my right split for about 20 years, even when I wasn't exercising I could still do it. I never had my left, at my best when I was young, they were about a foot over the ground, now at 33, I can get all the way down, I just need to get myself square and straight so a little more pushing myself and I’ll have them. Keep working and you'll get them.