The Secret of Chi Power Through the Horse Stance

[I:https://healthclub90.com/storage/2011/07/AlCase0.jpg]The Instructor sat in the Horse Stance for the whole lecture. The students listening, also in the side stance, were sweating and even dropping in pain and exhaustion. Sensei smiled with every student that fell down.

Cruel? Nah. Just good training, and a teacher that practiced what he preached.

Of course, I wanted to know the secret. How could he stand there, fresh as a breeze, not even thinking about the incredible pain that had to be shooting through his legs. I mean, it hurt me, why didn’t it hurt him?

The Horse Stance is one of the basic stances of almost every martial art. It is known as Mabu in the Chinese oriented Martial Arts, and as Kiba Dachi in the Japanese fighting systems. There are many legends concerning where Horse Stance Training came from.

Some claim it was designed for close combat while actually riding horses in battle. Others claim it was developed for fighting sideways while standing in rice paddies. The truth is nowhere near these romantic tales.

The truth is that the Horse Stance was created to help students to better grab the earth with their feet. This notion of grabbing the earth with your feet is called ‘rooting.’ In my martial arts system, which is a bit more scientific than others, we call this practice ‘grounding.’ Regardless of what you call this training method, grabbing the ground is critical to learning how to fight, and to the accomplishment of the true martial arts.

The body is a machine, and a machine must be fastened to something to be effective. A motor must be bolted down, a car engine must have motor mounts, even a helicopter is ‘fastened’ to the air by the little ‘side propellor’ on the tail. In the martial arts the Horse Stance thus fastens the body to the ground.

Once the body is attached to the earth it is able to move faster and quicker, for it will have a surer launch. And, it will be better able to hold to the earth, which will enable a person to better defeat attacks while not losing his position. Ultimately, however, the real secret here is that the body/motor, once fastened to the earth through the Horse Stance, will create energy, and that energy is what we call Chi Power, and the growth and use of this chi power is the secret of the martial arts.

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