Karate Cat Stance

Video Transcript

" How are you doing? My name is Qaeem and on behalf of Expert Village, I’m going to be demonstrating Shorin-Ryu Karate. In Shorin-Ryu Karate, we have many different stances. The stance that I am going to be demonstrating right now is the cat stance. It is called the cat stance because when you move it is a silent stance; you have to be moving silently. However, right now we are just dealing with the beginning cat stance. The cat stance, once again, you start out in the ready position. Now you could step forward with either leg. You can step forward with your right leg or your left leg. Now when you step forward, your forward leg is going to be the leg that you are going to be attacking with. The back leg is where you are going to carry most of your weight. So once again, we’re in a ready position and we step forward with the left leg in the cat stance. You’ll notice that when I got to my stance I automatically sunk. When you sink, the weight is going to be on your back leg, that is how you center your gravity and your weight is more distributed like that; you can attack with the front leg. Now once again, you’re in a ready position, you are stepping out with the front leg, step out, you are in the ball of your foot. Your foot should be facing… the heel of your foot should be off the ground. You should only be on the ball of your front foot. Now all you have to do is lower your weight to the back leg, you just sink. Now this stance is the stance that you have to get used to. It is a very difficult stance because most of your weight is on the back leg, which means your whole body weighs on your back leg. Your front leg you can distribute it. Either you can; kick or you can get many different movements out of. It is easy to kick; you can lift it up without moving. So once again, stepping out with your front left leg. You’re stepping out, just going to lower your body and just sink. That is the cat stance. My name is Qaeem on behalf of Expert Village, thank you for watching."