How long can an good person at Wushu do the horse stance for?
I, myself don’t do anything like that, but can only do it for about 4 minutes. (with a pole on my lap)
My best was 10 minutes
I did 9, but i didnt do comtemporary wushu.
Horse stance
I am talking about people who compete and do demostrations.
How long do you think they could do it for?
half hour
I’m a traditional guy
I suck, and I did 10 minutes, so at least double that would be a minimum, probually more like 30-40 minutes
I know guys that claim a full hour though.
All are traditional
Depends on if they are doing it correctly or incorrectly.
I would suspect that they could do it for a fair amount of time. When I was training JingWu/Choy lay Fut it was compulsory to do 20 minutes horse stance at the start of every lesson. Most of us could do it after a month or two of training every day. You feel pretty fatigued afterwards when training at first though i.e. legs shaking, rubbery muscles, etc.
My point is if I can do 20 mins every day of the week then a professional Wushu player should be able to do it a lot better. 
An hour is standard for being Good.
I must really suck then. 
Me too. I must suck MAJOR BOTTOMS. 2 mins approx.
But then I only train it once or twice a week.
Well, my sifu is very strict about fundamentals and all his students have pretty good horse stance. Many a bead of sweat has fallen to the floor in his kwoon 
One of the sets he teaches (Hak Fu Gong Lik Kuen / Black Tiger Power Generating Fist) spends a great deal of time in the horse stance. When learning the set, it is a killer to get through, but after a year or two the horse stance is improved greatly.
His lion dance teachings further improve the horse stance in the practitioner, especially the training part!
I honestly haven’t timed myself, but I do spend about 20 - 30 minutes performing the set I mentioned.
peace
Type of horsestance.
In my experience theres a lot of difference in the horse stances in different styles…i used to do it in af wery wide open version, and thats faily easy.
Now in my internal MA class we are learning a very narrow horsestance, much harder:)
Ive never really timed myself in any of these stances.
Am i the only one getting pain in the knees from vide horse stances???
you guys are nuts. i’m gonna be rust for a little while yet, but at my best i can hold a medium horse indefinately or a full horse for only about 2 - 3 minutes max.
Nine out of ten horse stances I see were people hold are wrong. If you mean a horse stance were your thighs are paralel with the floor and your knees are not over the toes and your feet are straight(not pointing outward). I could do it for 5 minutes. Most people point the feet out making it 100 times easier. With toes pointed out you could be pushed backwards easily.
i have heard that some styles actually prefer this though. it’s one of my sifu’s pet peeves, but i have heard people on here say that there are advantages to it.
30 minutes. only did that once, though
I’m up to 4 1/2 minutes, thighs near-parallel to the ground.
Daily, unless I am doing other leg exercises.
It’s taken me a long time just to get to this point, but I am finally making progress, I feel I will be able to add 1 min per month until the end of the year, at least making it to 10 min daily non-stop.
I think once you build up a certain level of strength in your legs, it gets easier to add time. Then it becomes more of an endurance exercise. For instance, to build from 10 to 11 minutes, is a lot easier then building from 1 to 2 minutes.
I’m also having an easier time now, because my knees have stretched and strengthened enough so that they are not causing pain, they are no longer the first thing to give out.
My structure is only just getting to be correct. I am extending my spine from top to bottom. Finding just the right amount to push my hips forward. I’ve noticed that this taxes my stomach muscles, not enough to tire me, but I can’t do as many crunches after horse practice as before.
I’d say I have a mediocre horse stance, functionally speaking. At this level of strength, a very low horse would be pretty impractical for using in fighting. Not enough spring up potential.
My mid-level horse is pretty good, though.
10 minutes would be minimum to consider myself proficient. 30 minutes is my goal, and I expect to reach this in about 2-3 years. I’ve been training Kung Fu for 3 years, but I’ve only seriously been training my low horse for about 1 year or less.
Still, the bullsh!t detector is flying off the meter right about now. Because I think guys with good horses can hold this 10-30 minutes or more, but not right off the bat or within 6 months as people seem to claim. RoyalD, I read your posts on Russbo, really cool and good information. I know you guys trained really hard and focused on this exercise. But, somehow I think you guys weren’t low enough or something. Maybe I’m wrong. And Straight Blast, that’s just outrageous.
I know that in my case, I’ve had knee and back injuries, and it was important to proceed moderately at the beginning. That’s why I say, I’ve only been seriously training my horse for a year, because it’s actually been 2.5 years since I was taught this stance. And I could barely do 5 minutes now. I’m not overweight, my leg muscles were not weak to begin with, in the past I’ve run 10 miles in under 75 minutes, and a long time ago I used to work out at 225 pounds on the squat. I’m young.
Basically, I feel that right now, I’m ready to add 5 minutes to my horse within 6 months, but no way I was able to do that when I started out.
-FJ
I found a Horse stance video clip…
It shows the beginning of the compitition then cuts to the end with very few people left. It doesn’t say how much time has elapsed.
http://www.uswushuteam.com/misc/2001_arizona/
so I wonder how long they did it for.
i have never timed myself, but i know that it took me at least 4 months of semi - daily practice to even get up to around two minutes.