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Originally Posted by mvisit1
Have you ever spent minute after minute in a DEEP horse stand or front stance? Your quads are on fire. I was taught that ancient martial artists used these stances to strengthen the legs because they didn't have dumbbells, olympic bars and 45 lbs plates. I grew up with TKD and NEVER used those stances in a sparring match, keyboard warrior.
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I have wasted tons of time in horse stance, my Shodan test required marathon horse stance sessions performing other useless techniques.
There's something called specificity of training. If you want your legs to be stronger to do certain things, kicking, footwork etc., you have to train them specifically to do that. Training to stand in Horse stance for hours only makes you better at standing in horse stance for hours. Unless we are having a horse stance endurance contest this ability is useless.
1) You are just making excuses for shit that doesn't work.
2) If the desire is to make stronger legs for fighting there are tons of old-skool techniques that work a lot better and don't use weights; jump rope, plyo, footwork drills, duckwalk, running, etc.
3) You still haven't addressed an entire curiculum and theory of defensive techniques that don't work AT ALL. Do these have mystical ancient training benefits also?
4) Why do TMAs get a free pass for supposedly being "ancient"? O'Sensei Funakoshi brought Karate to mainland Japan in
1921 . Is that ancient? Bare knuckle English boxing goes back at least until 1681. Greek and Roman boxing go back at least a thousand years before that.