When the chips are down…When your “spider sense” starts tingling…When you look into the eyes of the punk across from you, and know he is about to throw down…What stance do you go into? What is your natural, reactionary fighting stance? If this stance is one that you have programed yourself to react with, what was your reasoning? Where are your hands, your feet, your eyes?
Feet about shoulder length apart, weight equally distributed. Right foot slightly in the lead.
Hands up and palms facing outward so it looks like I’m not wanting to fight.
The reasoning is that I can move and defend myself from this stance, but I still look pedestrian. I don’t look like I’m ready to fight so, hopefully, the guy will underestimate me and, by the time he ralizes different, it’s too late.
Dont really pick up a “fighting” stance. Will kinda puff up… talk some sh!t… Usually it wont escalate past that. Normally feet are about shoulder width apart… god knows where my hands are. If Im at a party, ones on my beer and ones ready to hit someone.
Originally posted by Shaolin-Do
If Im at a party, ones on my beer and ones ready to hit someone.
Very practical stance. You must practice “reality” fighting! 
Shaolin-Do always figures when we are talking about different thows we are speaking about how to either perserve the beer, or how to toss it on the opponent…
I guess I’m slightly wider than shoulder width, right foot lead..
I take no stance.
Originally posted by shaolinboxer
I take no stance.
What, are you laying down?
Sorry, I should have said I take “no-stance”
No, it is the buddhist stance on everything…lol:D
It should be a mental stance.
You don’t want to take a B.L. pose with eyes bulging and yelling like a cat who’s been stepped on his tail. Or, you don’t want to take a R. G. pose lying down on your back with your legs spreaded with a bored look on your face.
I don’t take a stance, I shoot them from my chair.
I take a Jade Ring stance
What’s my stance? Pro-Choice
“or how to toss it on the opponent.”
no no no. Maybe the empty cup, but not the beer!
As of late, I really havent had any sort of confrontations at all…
Depends entirely on everything. How you stand and posture yourself not to mention how you talk, look, smell, etc has much to do with how the fight starts, if it starts, etc.
Ryu should preach on this topic.
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"Shaolin-Do always figures when we are talking about different thows we are speaking about how to either perserve the beer, "
I once saw a beer thrown about 100 feet staying completely upright not, spilling a drop at a concert
Yenhoi is completely right
You cant really adopt a stance until you are actually fighting, the range will differ as to when the confrontation started (physically) and most times if the person was right in your face, theres no time to adopt a stance, only time to react.
The usual place I end up in when startled is ginga esquerda (sp?) with my weight 65/35 on my left front foot, back leg straight back, feet about the length of my leg apart, on the ball of my back foot, feet parallel, hips forward, right hand about a hand’s length from my left shoulder, right elbow down, left hand loose by my side. I don’t stay there long.
When merely under stress, it’s feet shoulder width apart and parallel, hands chest level - negaca alto.
As SD, one hand on me beer, one hand out front as one of Geoff Thompson’s barriers…
one finger extended, followed by a little beckoning motion, a quick shimmy-shuffle and a strangled-chicken kiai!
If this question is for real, my stance would vary (as I do have 3 favorites that kind of depend on the situation / position) but the fact of the matter is that I tend not to “square off” or “bow up”. If I’m seriously getting into a situation I’m too old, slow, whatever to mince words - no talk - just jump in and end it. Hopefully my efforts will land on target and with proper approach and impact to end the conflict. If not – I’ll probably get hurt.
Crossed arms at chest, hands near opposite shoulders, upper body turned to the side and in a cat stance.
Three times I got startled and assumed this pose with defense/attack on the mind even though I was not sure what or whether the attack was.
Startled was when people came near my position from behind a door or around a pillar.
It is a posture from at least one of the Kung-Fu froms I was shown.