According to Washif, Lian, Chen & Eric (2015), stretching as part of warm up prior to physical activities has been a common practice for many decades. The purpose of stretching is to prepare athletes for the demands from training and competition. This is because stretching may help increase range of motion and allows freer movement, while promoting efficient and fluid muscular movements. Of the many stretching methods, the two most commonly used today are static stretching and dynamic stretching. Lately, the practice of static stretching has become debatable because when implementing static stretching, decreases in sprint and other performance variables have been observed in a number of studies. However, there are some studies that have failed