Basic Stance of Koden Kan Martial Arts

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Learn the basic stance used in Koden Kan Martial Arts in this free online self defense lesson.

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Basic Stance of Koden Kan Martial Arts
Hi! I’m Madison Warner, I’m a black belt in Karate and I studied Koden Kan Martial Arts and my father Michael M. Foley is the person who put the style together and I’m going to be showing you some of our techniques today. If you’d like to see more about us and our style you can go to h2hctc.com or my website is mellei.com. Also I want to make sure that everybody knows that you need to stretch before you do any kind of physical activity, I mean everyone should know that but also if you have any kind of health problems see a doctor first before you know you get started if anything. Okay today first of all I’m going to show you about stances, this is the root of I mean this is your center okay this is going to root you is what I was trying to say, the first stance is called kibadachi, you want to bend your knees a lot, you want your feet to be straight forward and you want to just sink in to the stance okay don’t worry about your hands for now just feel your muscles working, you want to keep your back nice and straight, okay keep your back straight and like I said you want to be nice and low with your knee so just focus on this for a little while, practice that, just stand there in your living room watching TV, watch your favorite show while you’re doing the stance, it’s going to really strengthen your legs. The next stance is called zenkutsu okay this is just basically forward stance and you should feel like you’re about to move forward, lean into your stance forward, again you want your knee right over your toes and your back leg is straight pushing you forward okay, from the side like this…you’ll feel that forward motion and your back foot isn’t completely straight forward it can be turned out slightly but not very much and again just practice on this for a while before you start the next thing. Alright so those are your two stances that we’re going to be working with.

About the Expert

Expert: Madison grew up under the instruction of her sensei and father Michael M. Foley. She took very well to the technical aspects of Koden Kan karate; Foley calls her a "technician" of the style. Read More