fighting a shotakan karate fighter with kungfu

[ShotokanKid]

Just remember: Shotokan uses deep stances, whenever I fought shotokan fighters, they were easy to sweep because of hteir deep fighting stance (also completely noticeable in shotokan katas...weapons and open hand).

 

I'm not sure I get your point... Deeper stances are harder to sweep, light stances are easier.

[vertigo]

Just remember: Shotokan uses deep stances, whenever I fought shotokan fighters, they were easy to sweep because of hteir deep fighting stance (also completely noticeable in shotokan katas...weapons and open hand).

 

I'm not sure I get your point... Deeper stances are harder to sweep, light stances are easier.

 

not necessarily.. if all of their weight is on their front foot (where it shouldn't be), if you can pull a sweep, it should be pretty effective. If it is a balanced stance though, (if I remember right, forward stance should be 70-30 back foot-front foot), it would be difficult to sweep... the person can more or less quickly pick up their front foot and set it back down without too much difficulty.

[isshinryu5toforever]

Deeply rooted stances, that are firm and strong are difficult to sweep, but this means that the person who is doing it must also be very strong.

[shotokanwarrior]

I never fight in a deep rooted stance, we only do that for conditioning and kata. Remember shotokan is a mixture of shorei and shorin ryu styles, the former primarily strength and the latter is very quick and light with rapid motions.

[dingyuan]

I never fight in a deep rooted stance, we only do that for conditioning and kata. Remember shotokan is a mixture of shorei and shorin ryu styles, the former primarily strength and the latter is very quick and light with rapid motions.

 

Deep rooted stance are very dangerous during sparring or in a real fight, basically it's as if you are inviting your opponent to kick you right in the face. Most of the early Kung Fu loses to Muay Thai is because those Kung Fu fighters tend to fight using deep stance and got themselves face full of Muay Thai kicks.

[G95champ]

The art don't win the person does.

 

Take care of yourself first.

 

Now being a shotokan person myself. The best advice I can give you is be ready to be hit. We may lose but you will know SHOTOKAN was there after the fight.

[G95champ]

Agreed with some post above.

 

SHOTOKAN trains in deep stance but I have never seen any of us fight in one. Why because we don't. Funakoshi points this out in his 20 precepts. If you fought somone in a deep stance it was not shotokan because no true shotokan student would do so.

 

Yes we train deep to build muscle and speed but NEVER EVER fight that way.

[Ti]

yeh in shotokan we use that deep chamber stance, but generally nobody does it during sparring.

Some of the more experience members do but not THAT deep.

They do it to generate more power on the hit and the have more stability.

[cross]

The best advice I can give you is be ready to be hit. We may lose but you will know SHOTOKAN was there after the fight.

That advice holds true no matter who you are fighting, if they know what they are doing you will get hit.

Who is this "SHOTOKAN" guy???????

[aefibird]

Who is this "SHOTOKAN" guy???????

I dunno but his name crops up a lot... :D

Son Goku, concentrate on what you can do. If your best techniques are a reverse punch and a roundhouse kick (for example) then stick with those. Trying to incorporate extra techniques that you're not familiar with or that you can't do as well is not a good idea in the middle of a match. Practice those things in your club with your instructor. If you stick with what you know then you're more likely to suceed than if you try something new and make a mess of it.