There is an application for leaving that position. You move like the human body moves.\
well this is where i am going to have to be a buzz kill to the kenpo fans,,you perspective @JowGaWolf is from a Chinese view point and tradition, Kenpo is purely an American innovation. Ed Parker never learnt any forms from Chow. all of kenpo's forms were created as an after thought to produce more material because Parker ran out of stuff to teach his students. most of the forms were created by James wing woo. other forms followed from many other teachers along the way.
the opening of this form is a copy of the movement from an old okinawan form called Kusanku.
Karate Kagami - Notes on the Kata Kanku-sho
"The precise meaning of Kanku-sho means 'viewing the sky' or 'viewing emptiness', minor version. Here are the kanji:
is for kan meaning view, look or appearance.
is for ku meaning sky, empty or void. You will probably recognise this as the kanji also for kara in karate - empty hand.
is for shou meaning little or small."
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there is no application for this action. i guess one could invent something and obviously some one did in kenpo. but to me this action was borrowed from kusanku and added to the kenpo form to give it a feeling of authenticity where non exists.
orginally kenpo had no forms. then people started creating some and more and more and more. kenpo forms are lacking a lot of things that other Chinese and Okinawan forms have. this is why kenpo forms seem clunky and disjointed.