The whole foot is on the floor but the focus is on the K1.. The focal point on the K1 WITH the heel on the floor creates a stretch and loading of the muscle and ligaments like a bow ready to fire...this creates energy storage or potential energy reserves..but your weight must be focused on the K1 not the heel...the heel must be grounded in order to create this "stretch"..
If you do it right you will feel this stretch and loading in the form of great tension in the muscles and ligaments, you can feel the stored power and it is quite pronounced.. This along with the loading of other muscles including the leg muscles and glutes (qua) is the energy generating machine Chun uses to make short, quick bursts of power that transfer into the whole body unit (hammer) and fires the arm (nail) into the target..
Last edited by YungChun; 11-24-2010 at 10:54 PM.
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