why is a higher center of gravity quicker?
Originally posted by Ng Mui
When the feet are more apart than shoulders with you have more strength, when closer than shoulders with you have more speed.
Not true for all. Of course, for those who study real Wing Chun, it isn’t about strength and speed.
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50/50 horse is the way, because you are one step away from both.
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That’s just ignorance and inexperience talking. What matters is who can get to the target first, your head for instance, not what posture you assume to take the hit.
50/50 and 0/100 have different perspectives on your conclusion. I am willing to suspend my disbelief in the 50/50 front to back weighting, but I know 0/100 works.
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In actual combat weight will shift from one foot to the other, this is unavoidable.
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Yes. Usually. So what? 0/100 trains for that all the time. Your preference for 50/50 doesn’t tell me anything except that is how you were shown. Why would Yip Man have taught Leung Sheung, Chu Shong Tin, and Lok Yiu 0/100 if there were a better way? The big advantage of 50/50, which I learned in an earlier life and other style, is that it is quick and easy to learn because it’s more natural. However, not be redundant, but the best Kung Fu requires hard work.
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Training(drills) and fighting never look the same. [/B]
There you are wrong again. Sorry, thanks for playing. 
How many times have is been stated here on the forum that you fight as you train?
Why would Yip Man have taught Leung Sheung, Chu Shong Tin, and Lok Yiu 0/100 if there were a better way?
It’s early so forgive me if I’m wrong, but are you stating that these four all use a 0/100 stance?
Originally posted by Rill
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It’s early so forgive me if I’m wrong, but are you stating that these four all use a 0/100 stance? [/B]
I assume we are talking about 0/100 in the Chum-Kiu stance…if so you can add a few more prominent students of Yip to that list as well. The Chum-Kiu stance as in the form is done close to 0/100, as I was taught, the only weight on the front leg is the weight of the leg itself.
Yung Chun sez-
The Chum-Kiu stance as in the form is done close to 0/100, as I was taught, the only weight on the front leg is the weight of the leg itself.
There are variations between lineages on chum kiu stance weighting. Each form of weighting has its own implications- the key is to geta top flight innstructor who understands the detailed implications of the stance that he uses.
TJD
Kicking from a low center of gravity requires a shifting of the weight a greater distance prior to kicking. A low center of gravity stance usually involves a weight distribution of 50/50 unless of course you are doing one of the deep one legged stances found in some martial arts, but the kicks would still be slower especially if the same practitioner performed them relative to his higher center of gravity stance where weight distribution can be 0/100 without any shifting prior to the kick
well at my school we work from a 0/100, and in my experience a lower stance does not equate to slower kicks/movement. if im very low (ie horse stance) thats one thing, but if i take my YGKYM stance and lower it i am not slowed - up to a point. when i raise it, im not faster.
What is the weight distribution of your YGKYM?
did anybody ever think to ask tai chi people why they have their stance weight like the way they do? 
a sudden shift to 100/0 sacrifices mobility and kicking ability but gives you sudden reach advantage
faster than moving forward with 0/100
Originally posted by nvisblfist
What is the weight distribution of your YGKYM?
I see what you’re saying… According the thinking of some on this forum, we should probably shift to one side in the YGKYM.
…and some on this forum just never understand what they read…
…maybe it’s because they learned grammer before vocabulary
