It always starts from the stances and it is always the stances that screw people up. Once you screw up in the very beginning, the rest is a waste of time. I will not explain each of the stances and posting pictures or videos here, without face to face instruction and hands on adjustment to your body, pictures and videos only screw you up more. What I will share with you is the reasoning behind the stances and what should you feel when you get it right. Ask your master if you don’t feel what I am telling you and if you still don’t get it, ask yourself what is the problem, either me, you or your teacher, one of us has to be wrong.
Why do we need these stances? Why do we need to invest time keep the stances for a long time while they are simply different ways of spreading your legs open and create pain and sour?
I don’t care how many basic stances you have there in your system, but none of them should be just making bigger leg muscle by pushing you lower and lower towards the ground. You see, in Chinese kung fu, it’s all about balance. Your stances’ sole purpose is to help you understand your own body better and gain real balance. If you do them right, there is actually not so much sour and there shouldn’t be any pain. The sour tells you where to adjust to gain better balance, and it helps your body to build more muscle to maintain the ideal, balanced positions. So you need time to do each of the stances so that you can listen to your body and learn where to adjust. You want to make each of them smooth and confortable, and when you do it right on spot, you can sense a true balance that keeps you calm but vigilant and you can breathe deep easily.
A Kong Fu system is like building things up with your own body, you need start with the most basic blocks. The stances are the most basic building blocks. They serve as the basic elements of a stable weapon platform for you to launch the punches, kicks, to shoot out the wrestle or grapple, to make swift advance or retreat. You need them to be strong, stable and with right shapes. However, unlike bricks or steel bars, the stances should be easy to transition to one another and keep your body maneuverable any time you want to. So, if any of your stances locks your legs together, ask you to drop down dead on the floor and you need spend quite some energy to transfer it to another stance, it is wrong.
Ask your partner to press hard on the both sides of your shoulders when practicing the stances, if you do them correctly, the down force from your partner will directly transfer to the floor and you will not feel stressed or need to use leg muscle to fight the weight back. And When your partner suddenly retracts his/her hand, you will not feeling the pulse to jump or thrust up. That is what will happen when you gain the real balance of your body structure.
To sum it up, your stances are aim to help you to find and keep the true balance of your body, when practicing, you shouldn’t feel any pain with the joints and the sour will tell you where to adjust and gain more muscle to reinforce the ideal structure of your body. You should remain calm and can breathe deeply and freely when you do these stances while you can easily make the transitions between them. No lock up dead ones and your upper body should always be relaxed and ready to launch.
To sum it up, your stances are aim to help you to find and keep the true balance of your body, when practicing, you shouldn’t feel any pain with the joints and the sour will tell you where to adjust and gain more muscle to reinforce the ideal structure of your body. You should remain calm and can breathe deeply and freely when you do these stances while you can easily make the transitions between them. No lock up dead ones and your upper body should always be relaxed and ready to launch.
Coming up next Ch8. Circles
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