[jetgirl]

My mother's friend taught herself to do the splits in her 60's. I think it can be done. The link has good info, I also think some of it is we don't think we can go further, so we don't. We psycologicaly stop ourselves. And my new technique for more flexibility (I've been working on this lately) courtesy of ssipes, lengthen first and reach out towards your goal before trying to just get to your goal. For the splits I guess it would be to reach your feet apart more than pushing your things towards the floor.