Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Posted March 30, 2003 Low stances are great for strengthening the legs, but they are horrible on your joints. If someone tells you that it is only bad on your joints if you are doing it incorrectly is wrong. You may be able to minimize stress on you joints, but you are still damaging them. I don't use akwardly low stances when I train because I see all the time the problems many of the older practitioners are having. My instructor has had back surgery and can't kick with his right leg because of his knee. When Shotokan, Shiri-ryu and the other low-stance styles were conceived, people didn't understand the long term side effects of thier training. Low stances may make me a better martial artist now, but it isn't worth the risk in the long term.
hobbitbob Posted March 30, 2003 Posted March 30, 2003 interstingly enough, in January we were all discussing our "Karate Resolutioins, " and many people said they were going to work on shorter stancing. There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm!
Guest Posted March 30, 2003 Posted March 30, 2003 oops -- spelling correction. shiri-ryu should be spelled shuri-ryu In addition, I just noticed that speedBird just said that his first rank was awarded by Nakayama. Is it true? It just struck me funny because if he is talking about Masatoshi Nakayama, the head instructor of the JKA - Japan Karate Association - in japan, then I would have to question his motives for having to tell us who awarded his belts in his first post. It isn't unheard of for someone to walk into our dojo and claim they trained with Chuck Norris or something because one time thier teacher attended a seminar with a guy who shook hands with Chuck Norris at a book signing or something rediculous like that.
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