The Front Stance for Basic Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Fighting Style

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Hi! My name is Julio Anta from Anta’s Fitness & Self Defense in Miami, Florida. My website is www.antakungfu.com. The next move I want to show you is a part of your foundation of Southern Kung Fu, your front stance. We do our front stance a little different than most martial arts, and here is why. Southern styles are mostly fighting arts, they were not developed for sport. Even though people think they look pretty, it is not for it to look pretty it is functional. So, most peoples front stance, I am not saying everybody, but might be something like this. Our front stance is a little different. Our front stance is shoulder width, this I call a tight wire act. It is not like this, a tight wire act, is I step in like from ice-skating. I am going to come in, come over like in a horse stance, then I am going to turn my hip and that is what gives me my power. My front foot is bent, my knee is right over, and not past it but right over. The rear leg is straight. This is a very powerful stance to push people or for stability. If somebody kicks my knee, it will take me down. Obviously, on the concrete it will hurt my knee, but its better than a broken knee if I did it like this. It also protects my groin if I need to block any groin kicks. It looks like this, just to show you one step. I would step this way my feet will not come off the ground. Now I can’t get swept. Turn my hip. That is the Southern Kung Fu front stance.

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