What is the best stance?

[Midkiff]

What do you think the best stance is? For anything, fighting, training, sparring, etc. i think the horsestance is the most beneficial because of the solidity of the stance and the power you can get from it. I squat 315 lbs because I practice kiba-dachi so much. Also the front stance is the best position for puching because of the ability to "snap" the hips so well.

[Drithen]

The best stance is whichever one works for the situation you're in

[Whitefeather]

The best stance is whichever one works for the situation you're in

Basically, yah.

All stances have some really good strength and some really bad weakness. Each is practical for some situations, and quite suicidal for other situations. It is sort of like the "which finger is best?" question. Each finger has some special strength, but it takes all of them to pick something up. That said, if I were to pick one stance, it would be a loose, relaxed, boxing style stance. That is the best all-round for self defense, in my opinion.

Just some dude's 2 cents,

David

[patusai]

The best stance is whichever one works for the situation you're in

Agreed. I don't think that there is a best just a best for a particular situation

[NinTai]

From what I have learned stances such as we know them, i.e.

forward, horse, cat etc don't exist in a fight the way the exist in Kata.

Other than the obvious conditioning benefits stances are designed

to teach where to place your weight when performing a specific technique,

and how to use the whole body when doing so:

Cat- bringing the weight back and down sightly.

Horse - dropping the weight straight down.

Foward - pressing foward with the body.

My .5 cents

[UseoForce]

There was a thread a couple months ago about this...

[bushido_man96]

The best stance; the boxers stance. A boxer once told me: keep your hands up, your chin down, and your a-- off the canvas!

Seriously, the stance is light, very mobile, and very defensible.

[ps1]

You should be able to move freely. Deep stances are for beginners. It trains their legs and helps to develop spirit. However, if your are fighting and trying to stay in a low stance that does not allow free movement (not that all low stances prohibit movement) than you're gonna get pummeled.

[Brandon Fisher]

Depends on the situation.

[Sohan]

And the best stance for martial arts is:

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....The cat stance.

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............................Horse stance!

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........................................wait, that's not it either....

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..............................................I've got it, it's a back stance!!!

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............um, nope.

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With respect,

Sohan