The Cat Stance for Basic Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Fighting Style

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Julio Anta from Anta’s Fitness & Self Defense in Miami, Florida. My website is www.antakungfu.com. Now I am going to teach you the southern kung fu cat stance. Again, it’s a little different than some of the karate cat stance. I’m going to show you all the angles. A cat stance is very good to fight a fast opponent. Light on your feet, exactly what it’s called. A cat, cats are fast. The way we would do it is… I would do to align you is…here’s a line. I would put one foot like this. I would make a T. I lift up the heel of the T and put the heel where my toe is. That is our Southern Kung Fu cat stance. Now I drop down push my butt out and come down to fight. Do it here if you’re training or here if it is an actual sparring or fighting. I am very quick, there is no weight on this leg, three quarters of the weight is on this leg. If they sweep that leg, I can move fast. If somebody rushes me I can come out of the way quick to side step up them and possibly continue to fight, striking whatever it takes. Or if somebody tries to sweep me I can jump off to sweep, kick and drop back to my cat stance, low, southern styles are very low to build powerful legs. "