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I was wondering does any other style of martial arts use a sanchin like stance with the toes slanted towards each other or is it just in goju ryu. My sensei says its the best to protect the genitalia from low kicks.
I was wondering does any other style of martial arts use a sanchin like stance with the toes slanted towards each other or is it just in goju ryu. My sensei says its the best to protect the genitalia from low kicks.
Is this what you are tlaking about?:
If so, I have seen "similar" things in TKD, but nothing like that.
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Some styles of Wing Chun call this stance the Yi Ji Kim Yu Ma or Goat Riding Stance. Other styles of Wing Chun don't use a Goat Riding stance like this. Personally I don't care for it because it isn't very stable and there are more stable stances that protect you from groin strikes.
We used a stance similiar to that one in the sanchin kata in seishin juku karate. I don't care for it myself as a practical stance. Just too unstable.
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I actually DO like it BECAUSE it's a stabil stance if performed correctly. At least for ME it always has been. I also like it for the muscles it works when I'm performing kata. Would I use it in a fight? It depends, but not likely.
Bear in mind that stances in Karate; and I supposed Kung-fu as well(?), serve the purpose of creating a mental destination for shifting and moving the body. When you purform certain strikes you move from one stance into another, when you are defending a punch to the face you are moving into a back stance (avoiding) or into a forward stance to attack.
Sanchin is more of a close quarters stance, naturally this isn't an "on-guard" style fighting stance it is more of a responce to close quarters groin strikes (such as a rising knee strike). In certain styles of jujutsu they teach a single combat stance and exercise these movements. In Karate these stances are exercising the same basic movement principle.
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The stance pictured was the one I was thinking of. I find it very stable stance and I am 6'4''. Even when I do zenkutsu dachi my sensei wants me to turn my toes in a little bit.
What Draven says makes sense to me. When I am doing bunkai kumite with a partner we stand 6-12 inches apart.
sanchin stance in different styles?
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