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Icetuete
Black Belt
Joined: 17 May 2003
Posts: 1025
Location: Germany
Styles: ITF Taekwondo
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 Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 10:49 am Post subject: short stances |
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why do proffessional kickboxers stand in these short stances? what makes them so good? many arts prefer longer stances, so i started to wonder  |
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Ben
Orange Belt
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
Posts: 133
Location: Mansfield, Notts, UK.
Styles: Hap Ki Do
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure all of you have seen some Ernesto Hoost fights ... if not what is wrong with you people! he usually uses all kinds of stances - but hey, i think he's a kickboxing god so i might be biased.
I'd like to know the answer to this too, but i've noticed that quite a few vary their stances quite a bit. I didnt realise that they used short stances so often though, until you pointed it out!
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WhiteShark
Orange Belt
Joined: 22 Apr 2002
Posts: 133
Location: EastCoast USA
Styles: Shidokan, Muay Thai, Judo
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:53 am Post subject: |
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| Because all the best Kickboxers are Muay Thai fighters. And the Thai fighting stance is short. You cannot effectively defend leg kicks with an overly long stance. |
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cross
Black Belt
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Posts: 1904
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| Also you are a lot more mobile from a shorter stance. |
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Scorcho
Yellow Belt
Joined: 12 Aug 2003
Posts: 87
Location: Dartmouth College
Styles: Uechi Ryu, Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, Kickboxing
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:28 am Post subject: |
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The stance is taylored to the competition format. In competition where heavy gloves are used and the object is to KO your opponent, a shorter stance is usually best. This is doubly true for K-1, because the legs are a target, though you see much variation there as a result of the mixed backgrounds of the participants.
This does not mean that MAs which advocate deeper and/or longer stances are wrong or less useful. Their competition formats are just different. As for on the street, I think that bare knuckled fighting where grabbing and grappling is possible is significantly different from Kickboxing. I believe a deeper stance may be better on the street, but what your training has taught you is probably best, since it is what you are used to and have experience with.
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