Kung Fu Sitting Stance

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center and today we're going to be showing you the Sitting Stance. Okay, the Sitting Stance, you want to start feet together, you want to crossover with your right leg, sit straight down on the floor, you want to perform this fast, okay, with your knee over the other knee. Okay, and you want to keep your feet tucked in, you want to be on the sides of your feet, okay. Okay, so you want to keep your chest erect, your head up, okay, you want to have the feet kept close to the body and you want to keep the knee over the knee. Okay, now getting up from the Sitting Stance, you want to push straight up, you don't want to have to use your hands to build your leg strength. Okay, some common applications for this are building your legs for kicks. Okay, if somebody punches in, okay, you can block and you can kick straight over if you notice the crossing action, the scissoring action. Or if he punches with the rear hand, same thing, you can block, step straight through this way, or also, if he punches, okay, you can kick straight it and then step behind and hit with your own knee, straight down. That is the proper way to perform a Sitting Stance."