Stances

Stances are one of the fundemental aspects of your Karate and help built a good foundation for your Karate training. A good stance will give you balance and stability.

It is important that your stances are well practiced and correct as bad stance will lead to bad Karate technique and makes your technique look sloppy and weak. Various weight distributions are used is each stance desgined for differant techniques and situations, you should make an effefort to memorise the weight distributions for the stances. Some Dojos will test you on this on the more seniour gradings.

Select one of the stances from the menu on the left hand side of this page to see information on each stance and images and videos of how to perform the stance correctly, technique and style may differ from style to style.