Horse Stance - how much, how soon?

[Golden Arms]

Those of you that advocate only doing the horse the guy in pink is doing better have done a lot of the lower, bigger horse prior to starting that one.

[GoldenBrain]

Welcome to the forum Monkey King.

You'll get there if you keep practicing. I agree with those who said the guy in pink is doing it correctly. At first you'll feel like you're going to fall over backwards and your quads are going to blow out of your legs, but in time as you build your root it'll all just click into place for you. I recommend also using wall sitting, lunges and squats to help build the muscles. In our system you can't get a black belt unless you can do an hour of horse stance. At least we break it up into 30 mins of high, 15 mins of mid level and 15 mins of low horse. That's including a 7 to 8 hour test. It's a true gut buster.

[PalmStriker]

10 minutes?!?! How many months of practice does it take to get to that?

Is it recommended to practice horse every day, or every two days?

I wasn't aware there was a high and low version of the stance, I'm guessing the high stance isn't as uncomfortable.

Oh, ten minutes is not so long when you've been doing it for over 30 years. I did instruct a young practitioner many years ago to hold his palms out in front of his chest, facing each other at right angles while in a horse stance to help condition his wrists/nerves. I told him that if he did this, he would forget all about the pain, etc. in his hips/thighs,legs. He practiced that way from then on.

[PalmStriker]

I personally prefer to practice it the way the guy in red(or pink) does. As you see it's round like an arc and low enough which gives him flexibility and stability at the same time. The guy in white however is IMO stuck where he is.

I prefer the pink guy stance also. The low stance is very Hung Gar / turn to either side with "WAR PALM" strike.

[YouKnowWho]

ten minutes is not so long when you've been doing it for over 30 years.

Your mind should think about anything except your own body.

- My teacher's teacher could stay in horse stance to "finish a dinner".
- My teacher could stay in horse stance to "finish watching a Beijin opera show".
- I can stay in horse stance to "finish a beer".

[IronFist]

http://forum.kungfumagazine.com/foru...5&d=1367246495

This horse stance is too wide for my standard. The proper width should be:

shoulder width + 2 fists distance.

If your horse stance is too wide, you are not stable if your opponent springs one of your legs from inside out.

An easy way to find the proper distance is to stand with your feet together and then:

Turn the toes out to 45 degrees, heels touching.

Now turn the heels out to 45 degrees, leaving your toes where they were.

Now leave your heels where they are and move the toes out until the feet are parallel.

The final width will depend on how big your feet are, though.

[YouKnowWho]

An easy way to find the proper distance is to stand with your feet together and then:

Turn the toes out to 45 degrees, heels touching.

Now turn the heels out to 45 degrees, leaving your toes where they were.

Now leave your heels where they are and move the toes out until the feet are parallel.

The final width will depend on how big your feet are, though.

I think you may talk about the shoulder width. In the throwing art, the shoulder with is better than the shoulder width + 2 fists distance. Since in striking art, people like to switch horse stance into 4-6 stance (40% weight on leading leg), the horse stance used in the striking art is a bit wider.

It's a bell curve.

http://imageshack.us/a/img217/2254/bellcurve.jpg

When you have both feet touching, you have poor balance. When you move your feet futher apart, your balance start to improve. When you have reached to a certain point, if you keep moving your feet apart, your balance will get poor again.

[Drake]

Get it in during the day as time allows. I do it while brushing my teeth, etc.

Strong legs also make you a better runner. Squats also reinforce all of this.

[Lucas]

the guy in the white is doing a modern wushu thing.

its also important to note, when you do your horse stance when your legs start to shake that is a good thing, dont stop the moment they start to shake. force through a bit until it becomes almost uncontrolable and you will fall down.

[Drake]

the guy in the white is doing a modern wushu thing.

its also important to note, when you do your horse stance when your legs start to shake that is a good thing, dont stop the moment they start to shake. force through a bit until it becomes almost uncontrolable and you will fall down.

Or just fall down. You probably won't die.

[Lucas]

Or just fall down. You probably won't die.

I do horse stance on two wooden posts over a pool of hungry tiger sharks while my legs have small cuts on them.

[Golden Arms]

This is more what I had in mind.

[Lucas]

[wenshu]

An easy way to find the proper distance is to stand with your feet together and then:

Turn the toes out to 45 degrees, heels touching.

Now turn the heels out to 45 degrees, leaving your toes where they were.

Now leave your heels where they are and move the toes out until the feet are parallel.

The final width will depend on how big your feet are, though.

fucking wing chun

[YouKnowWho]

I don't care how old this person may be. I don't like his "outer" horse stance. It won't work if you use it for your hip throw. You may even hurt your knee joints by doing so. By using the SC system standard, this is a no no.

I also don't like to use it in striking. When you "spring" from your back leg, your body is not moving forward but moving 45 degree backward. By using the Baji system standard, this is also a no no.

If the outer horse stance cannot be used in both throwing art and striking art, where can you use it anyway? Performance? It doesn't even look pretty.