After you mastered the following do you only go on to fight in a ding ma or side stance...Do you only use a side stance when fighting..If so a person who uses both has an advantage...
The Mook Yan Jong does alot of things...For one it teaches you how to deal with an opponent with one lead leg forward. The YGKYM stance is to protect your from a lifting leg into your groin. I actually learn this first hand on the street. I wasn't holding a stance but from practicing basics so much i instantly went into YGKYM when someone tried to kick me.
Did i stay holding that stance..No i went into Ding Ma to reassess the situtation...Theres a time a place for everything...In sparring imma take Ding Ma as my intial stance not YGKYM. I will transition into YGYKM when the need arises...This quasi training stance allows you more motion of both extremities allowing you to strike with both hands, both elbows and kick from both feet. How ever it is best use for clinch or toe to toe distance. That is why Chi Sau is mostly taught in YGKYM...but moving chi sau one should utilize other footwork. and in sparring all footwork is good. YGKYM is temporary posistion, Bong Sau is temporary, trapping is temporary, front kick is temporary...you dont kick an just hold the foot back out there, you transition to text technique, theory or principle!
Originally Posted by
wingchunIan
good luck with that. IMHO YGKYM has only one purpose and that is as a training stance. It trains the leg muscles and tendons, trains one to sink their centre of gravity, to unify the upper and lower body, to turn the knees in and teaches the correct spacing between the feet.
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