This remind me a comment that someone made to a person's form performance. The comment was, "You did so well in your form that you have 6 front stances and they all look identical."
I think 1 minute is enough for static stance at maximum. Even if it's for conditioning, I don't think the 5 minute horse stances are going to generate any additional returns. It may actually reduce the benefit because the legs become strong at one position.
The following is real.
In your horse stance, if you turn your right foot to your right and shift 10% more weight to your left leg, your horse stance will be changed into a 4-6 stance (40-60 weight distributation) which will have better mobility.
Mabuni, Funakoshi, Itosu, Miyagi and several other early karate masters all had their Bubishi copies, personally transcribed by hand. These copies were much treasured by them and were shared with their top students. It is beyond reason to think they did not delve into the illustrated techniques, many likely already taught to them by their own teachers.
That would be the context. Sometimes we sacrifice some mobility for stability, for instance.
Agreed, where we are talking about direct application to combat. Of course, if we're talking about other concepts, there may be reasons to use longer stance practice (not my preference, but I've heard reasonable arguments).
Techniques used and taught is very different from training methods.
What punch are you referring to? There are specific punches where you raise your (back or front) heel, and other ones where you don't. There are also stances where you raise one of your heels.
Do they teach this to keep your rear leg planted in a reverse punch? My school was a bit of a special case, but I'm positive we were taught from the beginning not to do that. Do you have a video showing someone teaching to keep that leg planted?
Am I missing something here? There are plenty of stepping-punches in Heian Shodan, but there are no reverse punches. And definitely none where you do not move your back leg. I watched the video and do not see any there either.
Sing it brother!
I’ve said before and I will say it every time you post this garbage video. This is near to the worst “horse stance” example I have ever seen in 27 years of CMA. Just awful, so bad in fact that it I find it nearly offensive. That is not compressing. That’s pushing off. I hope you push this video off and never show it again. The people in this video should be ashamed.The front stance (bow-arrow stance) should be the end of a punch. Before that punch, your back leg should be bending.
You have to compress before you can release. The front stance is the end of the releasing. IMO, the compressing stage is more important for discussion. Usually the compressing stage is either a horse stance, 4-6 stance (40%-60% weight distribution), or a 3-7 stance.
In this clip, the compressing stage is a horse stance.
Pushing is one way, pulling is the other way. If you don’t know that, then you are the one who is mistaken. Expansion, and contraction. If you only do one you don’t walk any more efficiently than you punch.
In all of the times I was taught reverse punch, the heel stayed down. I suspect this was to force specific mechanics you could cheat around otherwise. Of course, there are also other ways to ensure those mechanics are used.
But it is all stepping stances. He's literally moving his back foot so far it is his front foot.
This looks like the front arm, not a reverse punch. It would (in the school I trained), be set up so that when you throw the reverse punch next, you whip your hips and also lift your heel into it, which is tougher to do if you've already lifted your heel like that. That's why I asked earlier which punch you were referring to.
There are a lot of good reasons to do a reverse punch with the heal down. Much of it is related to what you can do after you punch. Punching power is only one aspect of it. It's not the most important use of punching with heel down.
I often slide my rear foot with heel down if needed.
