Stance guide?

[Elizabeth]

Is there a website that shows all the different stances and their names? I keep hearing shukodachi, zenkutsudachi and other ones that I don't know if I'm even hearing right in class, but I'm not sure what exactly they are. Is there a reference page somewhere that might be useful?

[Slayer2004]

Hi Elizabeth

I have a couple of links for your, there are a lot on the net so I am sure you will get a few more before you know it. The only thing I would want to point out is that there may be variations in stances depending on your style etc so please only use what I have posted for you as a reference and not as cannon as you will need to refer back to your Sensei for that.

http://www.karatetest.com

http://www.natkd.com/stances.htm

I hope they will help a little.

[Nevinyrral]

Hey slayer, are those kiokushin stances? because kokutsu is a bit diffrent from what we do. we have front foot facing enemy, and feets in one line

[Shotokan_Tigress]

Yes, they don't look very shotokan to me either.

[christoh]

the OP does Shudokan.

- Chris

[Benkyou]

KarateTest is based on Kyokushin

[Nevinyrral]

Would be nice if there were similar sites but for other styles

[Elizabeth]

Would be nice if there were ANY resources for my style!

Thanks for the links, Slayer, I'll check them out! Point on variations noted.

[Benkyou]

KarateTest is my website

Well, i will try t make it for shotokan style too

[Slayer2004]

I know they are different, I did say that, but I also know it is a struggle to find stance images online and these are still a good indication, better than nothing in a lot of ways, but like always I will still recommend learning from an instructor and not a website.