Firstly I would Like to say hi I am a virgin on this site, but I am going to bite the cherry and answer something that has always been taught to me during my training in shotokan, I have always been taught that my stances are to be kept low, and that it helps to improve your stability, and also by always training as low as you can when you need to go down into stance you wont have to think about it , it will be a natural action, maybe I am wrong maybe I am not but it has always worked for me, specailly during sparing sessions ect. Hope I didnt make to much of a wally of myself Bye for now Sarah