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Hello everyone. I have searched here and elsewhere. I am looking for an illustration of what is sometimes called the 'mountain stance'. Can anyone here please help?
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Maybe it is from Mountain climbers, Which is a front lean and rest position with one leg tucked under your chest.Hello everyone. I have searched here and elsewhere. I am looking for an illustration of what is sometimes called the 'mountain stance'. Can anyone here please help?
I'm not a TKD expert or anything, but I've never even heard of mountain stance. This is from my knowledge doing TKD for a few years as a kid and a few months as an adult (in 2 separate schools), and doing a lot of browsing on the internet.
Looking up "Mountain Stance Tae Kwon Do" I don't find anything on the first page of Google. Just doing "Mountain Stance", I get a lot of hits for Everquest and Dungeons+Dragons, but it looks like there might be a stance called "Mountain Climber Stance" in Kung Fu. It appears to be like a twisted TKD front stance (front foot in line with rear foot instead of offset, toes pointed sideways).
That one. In TKD it'd be a narrow front stance I believe.
In CMA styles that I've heard use that name, it's Dun San Ma (Canto).
That would certainly be confusing. Keumgang has a number of mountain blocks (santeul makki) done from a horse stance (juchum seogi)
I feel like maybe I've heard someone call that particular move a mountain stance before? Anyhow, if I had to take a guess about what the OP was talking about, it would be this.
Profile of the OP states he is a Taekwondo redbelt (which I presume makes them either a 2nd or 3rd geup, depending on the system), so Keumgang is a bit out of his level, at this point.
Regardless, as stated, I do not think there is any major branch of taekwondo that uses the term "mountain stance". People may, of course, erroneously use the term, but that's not really pertinent.
Soo bahk do has a mountain stance.