Defend against an armed attacker.
One of our coaches tells us to keep our stance with feet towards the opponent. Now doesn’t one’s balance suck balls with this?
Someone needs a hug.:icon_blac
PS. It’s worse when it’s during a workshop you’ve paid extra to attend.
I dont understand why a horse stance is a bad thing?!?!
You are unstable front to back. Both of your legs are firmly planted on the floor thereby guaranteeing that anyone halfway competent WILL FUCK YOU SILLY with leg kicks. Your hands are down by your hips making sure you get punched in the face repeatedly. You have to keep your legs splayed so far apart that any kind of reaction from the lower body takes way too fucking long.
And to top it all off, it just looks really fucking stupid. I mean, really…
I thought horse stance is just an exercise to strengthen leg muscles and you dont actually use it in a fight.
And thats not a proper horse stance, the guy is too high and too wide with his legs.
… yeah, he could probably move out of it and defend himself.
A real horse-stance should scream static instability… the only moving possible should be tipping backwards/forwards under the merest pressure.
Also, the open groin just screams field goal. To say nothing about the inability to turn in that stance.
When I was learning Kung Fu there was a guy in the club who’d drop into horsestance while sparring. He got kicked in the nuts so many times.
Worst technique I’ve been taught, courtesy of BBT:
Defend the lunge punch by leaning forward, and proceed to cartwheelknee your opponent in the face while they stand still in lunge punch stance with the other hand on the hip.
God I hate ninjers.
Stealthy.
i’ve always enjoyed the crane technique
I was taught a d34dly backfist technique by these enlightened souls.
From horse stance, send the front leg deep into your opponent’s stance. Coil back like a spring, and unleash the d34dly backfist with a straight arm.
There is no defence to this.
You forgot the kiai.
101 techniques that involve committing 2 limbs to block 1 of your opponents. Especaly:
x-block a kick to the groin. My groin is about 2" below where my arms cross… :icon_eek:
Also everything involving horse stances
any technique that requires moving into a stance first, and worse if it involves stepping back with one leg.
sitting in seiza to strengthen your mental capacty to take punishment
all the bad techniques i’ve been taught, are techniques assuming that someone cant eat a punch, or that your going to miss. its like wow i punched him in the face but he didnt vanish into thin air, whats taht all about?
I have killed ninja’s with that, dont mock it till youve done it. on the real shit, palm strike to the nose, killing someone. I kid you not.
Let’s see:
Aikido. Pretty much all of it.
Ikkyo, nikkyo, sankyo, yankyo, gokyo. Shihonage. Irimi-nage.
If you’re unfortunate enough to know what these refer to, you should know what I mean. Wrist locks, arm manipulations, “entering” throws. pfeh.
Friday I even subbed someone who was in my guard with nikkyo. This only worked because he couldn’t escape my deadly my-sweeps-aren’t-working-since-you’re-not-wearing-a-gi
closed guard, and because he was (lolz) grabbing my wrist instead of raining punches into my face. It’s still a dumb technique.
So yeah. I don’t think I need to beat the dead Aikido horse.
I’ve also done some karate here and there, and my first day I always what seems to be the same lesson: jodan, chudan, and geidan blocking!
… you don’t see that in the octagon, either.