Sharing from another board: a good link...
http://www.cbox.cz/baguaquan/mabu-en.htm
"something I don't think is addressed enough is that the horse stance is NOT a neutral fighting posture. It's a strength training posture in the beginning of a students training and later it becomes a transitional posture used to deliver power in a technique that calls for the type of power you can deliver from ma bu. Once the strike or block or throw is delivered then you should be moving on to another posture for the next technique or back to whatever your style uses as a neutral fighting posture.
hill climbing, cross/twisted, crane, low/dragon...whatever you might call your basic postures are all really transitional in nature...you don't 'fight' out of any of them but all your fighting utilizes them at specific points in the flow of the fight.
I think the CMA stylists emphasis on the static training of postures is where some of the misunderstanding about their end use comes from. beginning level is the static training to build strength, middle level is forms work to build the ability to make the transitions correctly.
http://www.cbox.cz/baguaquan/mabu-en.htm
"something I don't think is addressed enough is that the horse stance is NOT a neutral fighting posture. It's a strength training posture in the beginning of a students training and later it becomes a transitional posture used to deliver power in a technique that calls for the type of power you can deliver from ma bu. Once the strike or block or throw is delivered then you should be moving on to another posture for the next technique or back to whatever your style uses as a neutral fighting posture.
hill climbing, cross/twisted, crane, low/dragon...whatever you might call your basic postures are all really transitional in nature...you don't 'fight' out of any of them but all your fighting utilizes them at specific points in the flow of the fight.
I think the CMA stylists emphasis on the static training of postures is where some of the misunderstanding about their end use comes from. beginning level is the static training to build strength, middle level is forms work to build the ability to make the transitions correctly.
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