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well it's the key to looking like your taking a **** for extended periods of time. there are better ways to get your legs strong in general. it's just another one of those task-specific gongfu exercises. it's a great way to stop yourself when you're getting pushed back, or to get low enough to get the edge in some fights.
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Well, it still...yeah...ok...
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Hmm, well I guess I've been practicing the horse stance for a long time then. See in boy scouts there were these out houses a.k.a. toiletries and I was never really liked sitting my rear on one of those."If you want pure self-defense buy a can of mace." Grandmaster Villari (I think that is it).Comment
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I'm not huge on "static" stance training. It has it's uses, but a dynamic set will do a lot more for you movements, explosiveness, etc. I usually use static stance training as a side thing.. something to test my will.practice wu deComment
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I agree, but when I've had to do it in belt tests it's also helped my breathing. If you do it for long enough then you start to mediate."If you want pure self-defense buy a can of mace." Grandmaster Villari (I think that is it).Comment
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a lot of it depends on the style. in hung gar we did it constantly, because the basic idea of tiger style is to get close, drop your weight and let the guy have it. if you seem to be immovable, and at the same time, you're hitting the guy where it hurts, you make for a very intimidating target. if you like to kick a lot, though, and dance around the ring, squats and such will do more for you.Comment
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I'm not very fluid. I like the tiger style."If you want pure self-defense buy a can of mace." Grandmaster Villari (I think that is it).Comment
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me too. don't quite have the body for it, though. it wasn't designed with tall, long-legged (not to mention really, really ridiculously good-looking) americans in mind.Comment
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Hung gar was fun for me, except i was learning it under a crappy fraud teacher (one of the many here in OK). Still, good aerobic excercise.
As far as horse step training, i think that it has helped my legs a lot, and it builds up the knees if you do it right. What you have to watch out for, it can do the opposite of you dont train it right.Comment
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Hung gar is great. A form of taming tiger fist gets the blood flowing like no other.Becoming what I've dreamed about.Comment
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Zach, yeah, but you are still not static when you are doing that. Why not do squats both weighted and non, to build up endurance in a full range of motion, and strength, in a full range of motion. I know that it is considered "old school" to hold stances, I think that is cool, but imho, for more functionality, doing forms, stance drills, and basic leg excersises will benefit more than any static training.practice wu deComment
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My teachers's teacher does squats. I don't do standing mediation very often, usually it's in belt tests."If you want pure self-defense buy a can of mace." Grandmaster Villari (I think that is it).Comment
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Some of the most interesting and beneficial exercises I have done were kind of made up on the spot. At work, if I am to do a job for hours on end I make it a training sequence. Looks funny and gets ridicule, but that is what humility is for. The best trainig I've recieved was in class. I like to take that training and expand on it. Blend it together and make it something fresh. That helps to spawn creativity, which will really come in handy when needed. I love climbing trees also. Looking at things in a different perspective is always good to get the imagination flowing. If stance training gets you down, mix it up. Practice your speed drills then go straight into a deep horse for a couple min. then jump as high as you can, then fall flat on your back and laugh, then roll over and crawl in a circle, stand up and work your dynamic tension. Stance sets and forms are great for a foundation, but what you build on top of that is up to you. Think outside the "box".Comment
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...And you do all that crawling and lauging at work? LOLBecoming what I've dreamed about.Comment
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Yes. I'm a professional baby impersonater.
Less the diapers, of course. My favorite baby kung fu training method is the baby bottom break fall. You have to kind of lean faorward as you fall to take the stress off of your sacrum. I guess in that case, the diaper might help cushion a little. I've worked in a factory for three years and one of my favorite energy expression exercises is to take a piece of iron wire and do wave in the whip exercises with it. I try to control where the wire bends, the shape of the bend, whether it bends up or down or both, and whether the bend has a spiral effect or not. It's pretty cool being able to see how the energy is expressed.
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