ECS Technique Section

       For any Technique discussed here it will be assumed that the person reading has a good understanding of boxing skills and Muay Thai basics. All techniques are done very "loose"  - not to be perfect but just to show the general movements.

Boxing/CSA Kickboxing Stance    

      Your stance at any time determines where you can move and what you can do. If  you have  a bad stance then you will find movement, attacking, or defending very difficult to do.

     Let's develop our stance: (every technique will be assumed to be done by an orthodox (Right Hand) fighter)

                                                        Standing very loosely, knees slightly bent, take a natural step back with your right foot. If you had a clock on the floor beneath you, your left knee would point at 12:00 and your right knee would point at 2:00. Now, sit straight down with your butt to the floor. Do not bend your back - bend your knees and lower your butt. You should still be at your 12&2 o'clock position. Stand up to where your legs are slightly bent and make sure that your weight is on the ball of your toes. Your back heel will be off the ground (high enough to get an egg under it), with your weight on the balls of your toes - your front heel is down but your weight is still on the balls of your toes. With your knees slightly bent your head is over your hips and your hips are evenly spaced between your feet with 50% of  your weight on your back foot and 50% of your weight on your front foot. Now, to help you achieve a natural stance do this technique;

                                                           Get a chair, sit on the front edge of it. Take your right foot and put it between the chair legs on the right side. Take your left leg and put it between the 2 front legs - make sure you are at 12 & 2 o'clock. For the most part this is your stance. what you do now is just sit down to the chair to where your butt barely touches it - when you stand up you stand to where your knees are slightly bent. Do this for 5-10 rounds. As you do this make sure that your weight is evenly distributed on the balls of both of your feet - it is important that your right heel stays up.

     [While we do all of the above your hands are placed very loosely on your cheek bone. Make a loose fist and just let your hands relax against your trunk and "lay on your cheeks. This will be your hand positioning and will be where your hands are placed for defense and attack.]

     For movement, from your current stance, start rocking your body from right leg to left leg or front to back. However makes you feel the weight transferring from your right leg to your left leg. As your weight transfers to from on leg to another - let your leg that is recieving the weight bend a little lower. All the time, stayed relaxed. Do this for 5-10 rounds.

     Once you get the rocking down you want to start with your movement. Movement goes like this;

                                                               Forward: Left foot first

                                                               Backward: Right foot first

                                                               Right: Right foot first

                                                               Left: Left foot first

     You have to understand that your feet never meet. You always keep your original boxing stance.

     As you are rocking your weight back and forth, feel how your movement is going to come.

     Let's begin - Moving Forward. When you feel yourself move forward from your rocking motion, let your left leg step out. DO NOT COME DOWN ON YOUR HEEL. Pick your foot up off the ground just high enough to slide it, but you step to the ball of your foot. This is very important. If you step to your heel then someone can time you at that point and catch you with a punch. There is no stability or easy movement done from your heel. Take a step by pushing off of the ball of your right foot. (I suggest that you get against a sturdy wall and get in your boxing stance. Put your left hand on the wall and try to PUSH the wall down by using steady pressure - no bouncing. This will help you see where, and how the weight is pushed into a punch and how you push off to step into your punches.) Bring your right foot up naturally behind your left step. Practice this for 5-10 rounds.

     After you step, look at your stance. Are you back to your beginning position STILL rocking your body weight. Hands up, Knees bent, Arms relaxed.

     If so keep stepping forward and work on this 5-10 rounds. If not correct your mistakes and work on this 5-10 rounds.