[Mayliz]

Satin, are you trying to do front splits or straddle splits? I'd say the first is the easiest to start with. About a year ago, I mastered the front splits, finally, just a smidgeon older than you. What helped was lots of warming up before dance and complete hour-long stretching of the whole body. Splits are just that, a stretch, and if you do them often enough, they'll feel good. Not at first, of course. At first it's more like Oww, oww, why am I hurting myself like this?

Also, you have to actively continue to increase your flexibility. So you won't see much progress if you only do them once a month ;-O It happens. I haven't been following up on my stretches lately and I feel stiff as a board. I started again this week.

There was a little girl on YT who showed a video on the most effective --IMO --stretch for splits. I'll see if I can find and I'll send you the link in a PM (Kind-of strange for me to post a child's video on here). I don't know if it's still up.