Activities like yoga, ballet, and gymnastics require better than normal flexibility because these activities require your body to move in different, more extreme ways.
All of these activities involve assuming and holding precise forms and positions. Holding these controlled positions require a level of static flexibility beyond that required by everyday activities.
In these activities, you are constantly moving your entire body through its full range of motion, so you have to have the dynamic flexibility to be able to do this with ease, so you can focus on the task at hand, which might be doing a graceful dance routine or a peaceful yoga pose.
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