The Horse Stance | Can you withstand the PAIN? | An exercise with ANCIENT CHINESE ORIGINS
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Hello Humans! Welcome back to The Tao Way, today I’ll be giving you my 3top reasons why I put my students through the grueling horse stance training. It is difficult and that’s just why I like it ;)
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The real tip is to fully paint a canvas full of candy while in horse stance
Dorian could easy, idk about Retsu tho I heard he's not a good painter lmaoooo
1000 IQ
heard you'll gain 20kg of pure leg muscle if you do that
No cap, I was in military school and we had to do this stance and planks whenever someone fuck up! 🤦🏾♂️So if you think I just got upper body strength.... 😅 you're in for a terrifying surprise. 👹 Leg Day over all days!!!
Ayy lmao 😂💪👌🔥
Dorian still holding world record tho
He has gained 20 kilos since his bizarre training begun
time to start painting candy
Until Yujiro tried it hahaha
Dorian of baki ?
C A N D Y
Who is come here motivated for baki😂
Damn, we all trying to be Dorian
Have you seen the legs on that man !
A man of culture I've seen...
I’m a Retsu fan myself.
Actually I too came here from Baki 2020. But I came here from the manga version where Yomi no Sukune (the sumo guy) actually does his training using horse stance or ad they call it Shiko-dachi.
Horse stance for 1 hour? I cannot even stand for 1 hour.
To have black belt where I trained, you needed 2 hours, and then do the exam, which takes another couple of hours, my personal record is 30 min, it's not that hard, and it does not take that long to improve your time
I stopped training 3 years ago and am pretty sure I can still hold it for 5 minutes or so, if you do it to your max 3 days a week, in like 6 months you get to 15 mins easily, it's mostly a mind game of accepting the pain and believing you can do it, and you will
@@DizGaAlcam but is there any true benefits from the stance?
Beyond...look what I can do for this long...
@@DizGaAlcam Você treinava Hung gar mano?
@@BendApparatus yes its an isometric contraction its great for strength gains
Mr. Dorian from Baki the Grappler did this for many days.
If he only was real lmao
I do the horse stance since 1 month now. I went from 1:30 to 5:00.
Maybe it was more easy for me than most people because I really focus on the breathing as I did a lot of meditation, and it really helps.
I do it every morning, excellent way of starting the day.
Now I add up 1 to 5 seconds every day. I did 5:20 today.
My rule is to increase at least 1 second each day, so that there is progress every day.
I advise you to do it every day and with process guys and focus mainly on the breathing and position.
Another secret is to mentally accept the pain and embrace it. But it is hard to explain, you have to feel it.
I suppose I never had the dedication to progress past 60 seconds. Definitely a great exercise for mental endurance and keeping your legs in check
Yes, improving this takes much time, patience and a good head space. That is why I recommend so many work towards the 5minute horse stance.
I do boxing, and I do the horse stance, it has drastically improve my power and leg conditioning. I feel so much more rooted and stable.
How long have you done it and how long before you noticed improvement in boxing?
@@victorleevirals1315 honestly if you give it a solid month to two months. You'll notice it. For me I don't have strong legs so it was a struggle, but worth it.
@@dk7541 yeah me either. Just started this today.
@@victorleevirals1315 good for you man, keep with it and it starts to become pretty fun, you'll push yourself everytime. The best I could do was 4mins 35secs. Took me forever to hit that lol. Good luck !!
@@dk7541 absolutely! , I had done the against the wall variation in the past, called it ‘riding the bus’, but, I’d never realised the benefits. I’m over 40 now so I think the mental side intrigues me slightly more than the physical, what did you find worked best for you as far as what you thought about while doing it?
Ps. Thx for taking the time to respond I appreciate it
It's funny but because I was so enthusiastic with anime and martial arts in the past, I can practically just sit in horse stance because I would train while watching my favourite shows, which also protrayed martial arts and training.
Gotta have your motivation, I guess.
I am the same way. Different strokes for different folks I guess. I recently watched a video about a heels on the floor, ten minute full squat. I'm like, 'Ten minutes? I can sleep like this.' I did over ten years of full contact self defense Karate. It just doesn't leave you.
Hahah that’s me. Watching FMA
Similar motivation as me. I keep doing Hindu squats thanks to kengan ashura
Yes but in the end, what makes you stay and keep practicing is discipline and dedication.
Simmilar to you I was obsessed with kungfu when I was a kid (5th Grader), I literally remember learning the horse stance and trying it for the first time, I held it for near 30 mins while watching a world of warcraft walkthrough video.
Not gonna lie it was pretty tuff since the first minute tho
Overall I felt incredibly good after the exercise, would advice on this training.
My 2nd Kung fu teacher kept students in only horse stance for 3-5 years depending on the corrections necessary for each student to perform the stance correctly. This was followed by advanced stance training mostly done with 100% weight in 1 leg. After 3 years could hold indefinitely. My longest was 3 hours at my teachers house. My trick for advancing quickly was to hold horse stance whenever I ate, watched tv or read.
read while doing this??? man u crazy
I do this while brushing my teeth and washing my face. Two times, once in the morning and once at night. Those distract me from feeling sore, and I get to do two things at once!
Maybe I should try that
I do while shaving as well
Great idea!
Salam from Morocco, in my Judo and Sambo days, I used to practice the Horse Stance on a daily basis, I was immovable like a mountain, skinny but my centre of gravity was anchored in the ground, even heavy weight opponents found it hard to throw me!!!
I do 5 min before sleep. Its good for sleep 👍
18 minutes was my max in my 20's. Probably can't go a minute now.
Yeah man. Thank you. This is so important. As a second Dan in Horseback for as long as required, I like to think back to when it all started. Stopping the straight leg, the lean back, etc. The pain....it was impossible!!!! And then it was'nt.
Thats a piece of the experience thats left by the waysude these days....progression with proof behind it=Confidence.
Nice work, Brother.
Oh, yes. The good old Mabu. When I started training Shaolin kung fu I hated Mabu. Then it became a challenge and motivation. It builds strong and powerful legs, and tests your mind !
Hey man im Chinese, and my grandpa taught me this exercise, and HO BOY ITS PAIN
I have serious respect for people who can do 马步for a longer time
Anything longer than a minute is pretty impressive imo
I remember when I was about 15 one of the Sensei's at our club that nobody liked made us stand in horse stance for an hour!!!! Half the lesson! He kept coming round kicking us in the legs too (something they all used to do back then). My legs ached for a week after that. You'd never get away with that these days lol.
Yes. Best way for learning.
No average level practitioner can stand in horse for an hour. Unless you were in a room full of senior students /masters.....
@@arbogast4950 you can take rests like stand straight when sensei isn't looking, done that quite a few times, but true 1 hr is a bit too much
You guys need to watch this video czcams.com/video/LH453KxvDHE/video.html
Cool story bro. Totally believe it.
I like to watch different styles of training. Often I find trainers, in general, have no idea what their talking about. So I'm often skeptical........ I am impressed with the knowledge of proper programming. It seems simple but most alive you hear is to max effort all the time. And I have found over the years the people who know to work up to it slowly are the people worth listening to.
I dont know if you'll read my comment but nice work
Thank you for your kind comment. I appreciate it :)
Jackie chan singing make a man out of you gives me life
I held the horse stance for a total of 3 to 4 minutes, unsure if I hit 5 minutes. I immediately feel more active now after doing the Maobu, thank you for the tutorial on it, it helped take some of my fatigue away as well.
I am 68 and 1 minute for me is max.
Still awesome, way younger people than you cannot stand that
This stance is a real rigorous exercise for the lay person. It works your core for real. You can see it in his clips how his muscles are working to maintain the form. Stance work was my home therapy after an achilles surgery once I got strong enough to stand.
Ive practiced horse stance for over 2 decades. I can do 30 minutes in strict deep form easily. It is a great long life hobby that everyone should use. It is a quick way to gain immense power.
Does not matter if people can do 1 hour
..the whole point is how has it benefited you? Open hips, less pain.etc....or just ego boasting hold
Yo! im a fan of your channel and i appreciate your content, which is why i shall bring to your attention the changing volume levels of the cuts of your video. Other than that great vid, great content. You've got a long time subscriber and viewer in me bro. :)
I read that is a hard way to build internal energy and is nice that these days we can focus in solo ancient excercises
What
Everything i do i can only hold for 1 minute wtf help
@Multorum Unum It cannot be coincidence.
I can attest to the middle splits being improved.
When I first started practicing Hung Gar we used to place staffs on our legs so we wouldn't rise during the stance and then we stood until we fell, caught our breaths for 10 secs then up again.
This is both my favourite and most hated exercise.😂
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Thank you for sharing horse stance,sk8 skills
Great job sir
4:08 Wait did he use the chinese version for a Disney song ??
A song from Mulan. Sang by Jackie Chan.
Ye isn't that make a man out of you from mulan??
Every professional ballet dancer knows the pain of the horse stance in the form of second position grand plié.
I can hold at 45 sec two times on fresh legs. After that my legs would be burning by the 30 second mark 😆
That was Jackie Chan singing "Lets get down to business" on the time lapse.
Hum loudly (play with the humming until you find the vibration in the nasal passages that's the most intense) for 3 mins -- then take a 4 min break (to reset N.O)
Humming increases N.O -- which increases Dopamine, increases Growth Hormone.
Hum while you Horse around!
The stance work is key to all the kung fu. Bad lower body, bad kung fu, and honestly its just beneficial to your overall health. The fact that elderly asians can still squat and relax tells you we in the west are messed up as a whole with our mobility and structural strength.
Thank you for. Trading with your program. Great suit
Don't forget it is 2nd position (a motion movement mostly) in ballet!❤
It is 2nd position, in a sense, from the martial perspective too. 1st position is Wuji stance, which is for gathering energy
The horse stance is similar to a grand plié in 2nd position. The following link shows a 2nd position-grand plié:
balletmanilaarchives.com/home/2018/10/1/ballet-dictionarynbspgrand-pli-in-second-position
Great video I love doing the horse stance as you can see by my picture I practice every day OSS
Love it!
I be doing it for leg exercises during quarantine is hard but very effective
just found your page, very excited to explore more!
Grand risings King. Thank you kindly.
It's actually really useful for pre exhausting the legs before a workout.
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Me the next day:
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move to asia
so when I'm doing landmine squat thrusters,
there is a paused weighted horse stance effect that can be held,
as if in a non supported box squat, serious isometric,
and then the explosive lift and
slow count negative
rinse , repeat
Landmine squat thruster with horse stance? Sounds legit 😂
Just subbed so excited to learn this trying to do a splits hope this will help me reach that !WOW one hour I’m so going to try to do at least 10 minutes I can do this!
Thank you! I have been doing more and more stretching to increase my leg flexibility. I always though MORE horse stance would make me more sore and get tighter, less flexible. Maybe I should do more horse stance to increase split flexibility for kicking?
thank you for this information, human.
Bloody humans..
I just did 3 mins from first try, i was thinking about making it more easy and i standed up a bit, then i understood i messed up, tried again and did 5 minutes. The pain is immesurable, i cannot describe how hard that was
So just out of curiosity. Do you have to keep your hands up. Or can they move freely?
My teacher hit a stop watch when I first was introduced to ma bu , I was expecting a countdown reset, five minutes in he said, "okay , that's enough " that was 36 years ago
Stance is sill a regular check in witb my conditioning.
Thanks for sharing, there was a time when this was all hush hush
The internet is cool, ain't it? I remember almost 30yrs ago believing that I'd be able to jump trees with Ma Bu practice! Those damn Wu Jia stories!! I've decided next month(jul15 my b'day)at 53, to begin qigong/neigong self training rediscovery. Maybe I'll release some videos in a few months. This has me motivated now.
I've been squatting for about 10 minutes now.
Stfu nooooo way u did a horse stance in 10 min just like that
... what's THAT on the floor behind you?
Thanks for the video!
What should I be thinking in terms of mindset when holding this position? Just focusing on breathing?
Breathing can be one way to work this position. I have found good results listening to a metronome during the horse stance. After 3minutes of the horse stance it is very much mental more than physical. You'll need to have a good meditation practice to consistently get to 5minutes
Outstanding!!!!
what song is playin at the begginning im a producer and i wanna make a song to it
as well as ive actually been lookin to expand my yoga practices, its great to know that i stumbled onto this at the right time
Going to try it tomorrow
working towards my 5 mins checkpoint!
I can only do 2 minutes for now with all of my weighted clothes on. Hurts my knees but one of my favorite leg workouts to do along with sumo Shiko’s
Thanks for the video" Would this stance be detrimental to damaged knee ligaments or help protect them my making your legs stronger? I can walk, stretch, do squats, split squats, etc. However I don't run anymore and try to manage the damage I know I've done to my knees.
Very interesting. This seems to be a way to strengthen the slow twitch muscle fibres. I wonder what using the Russian protocol of 3-5 sets of 3x(30s work to 30s rest) and adding weight when this becomes easy would compare to just adding more time in horse stance.
the time is where the mental test comes in. mental endurance is just as important if not more than building strength.
how important is hand position? when im nearing my max hold i tend to place my hands on my knees, idk if that makes it easier or not
Definitely don’t let the arms rest on the knees, this makes the position much easier. Arms out in front are the most common and what I suggest when starting out with this movement. A video tutorial for the horse stance will be out very soon on this channel!
Love those eastern kung fu moves. A bit short in terms of information but loved it nonetheless
Thank you and agreed. This video was to explain why I thought it was a movement worth putting work into. I will put a tutorial on how to do it properly very soon.
Get low, ya gotta get low. 🔥💪
Hung ga kung fu 12th year .Horse is not just a strenth exersise for the legs.It roots and stabilizes u stances , helps u to sink u chi down into u dan tien, roots u into a square structure which is very foundationally stable .Helps u lower half to be like the root of a tree , whilst allowing u top half to bend and sway like a tree in a strong wind .It forces u to engage with pain and learn to cope with it and if u can move low down in horse, coming up a touch and moving quickly in a real encounter is easy .
Im here for the Baki comments.
You have pretty well developed trapezius. Which kind of exercises would you recommend for trapezius?
I imagine handstands is one that build trapezius quite well.
Pull up and chin up
Guys I will post my horse stance progress everyday here to watch it and be motivated - martial art background - boxing fighter
Day 1: 2:06 it was hard
Day 2: 2:30 same pain but better
Day 3: 2:32 I feel that Im getting stronger
Day 4: 3:18 much easier than yesterday
Day 5: 4:01 my will power its better
Day 6: Rest day
Day 7: Rest day
Day 8: 5:01 I did it I hit 5 minutes 😀😄😆
Day 9: Rest day
Day 10: Rest day
Day 11: 2:52 today I trained too hard maybe this is the reason I didn't done well today, I will take another rest day and we will
How breathing should be done ? where should i keep the awareness while breathing ? Focus ? Thanks for the coming response .
Thank you for this video. I’m curious. An impersonal question here. Have you actually seen people hold the horse stance for 60 minutes in China?
Used to do it for 30-Minute sesssions during my teens.
It's not strictly for leg training.
There is no "max" There's only what your mind is telling you to do. If you let your mind control your actions, you won't ever get too far. You HAVE to keep holding it , hold it until you ACTUALLY can't. Keep going until your knees are collapsing . I agree very much with this guy saying "don't think about the pain" i went from 4 minutes to 8 minutes because i learned to not think about the pain, move your mind to something else and even at 5 , 6 minutes i thought the pain wasn't that bad and at 8 minutes , thighs just gave in . So literally just don't think about the pain, i worked my way up to 4 minutes in about 8 months, and as soon as i learned to calm down during pain i went from 4-8 minutes.
Man I love swearing when I do this, it helps.
Thank you sifu for explaining to us
Wow! The form was way better here!!
How did you deal with the burn in muscles?
I really want to do this this exercise but I keep having horrible knee pain. I don’t know if it’s because I’m bow legged but I tried correcting my form so many times. Maybe I should ignore the knee pain and keep doing it?
This is the similar as a grand plié in ballet, but a grand plié requires a different engagement of core muscles.
Dancing is no joke, as a judoka I went to do some ballet classes and the core and leg workout are seriously hard.
When I was 16 years old, I learned a kind of martial arts called pencak silat. Did horse stand 30minutes as a starter training, the next day after that, I could not even walk.
Why you need to do the Horse Stance: Because it raises your Kung Fu level in Shenmue 3.
Lmao
I just started practicing this its benefits are great
how would you describe the benefits?
@@helvete_ingres4717 bro we'll really ur lower body becomes strong wich in turns means of course harder kicking power an leg muscles in general since karate has alota lower stances u eventually learn to explode off a lower stance
when u reach master level u can basically sleep in this position
¿Se puede complementar con una Kettlebell de 20 Kg en ambas manos, o es muy agresivo?
What's your max deadlift
Hello everyone, I have question regarding the mind activity. In the video is mentioned that I should not be thinking about time and how it hurts or when it is gonna end. But what should I do with my mind? I would assume to do some breathing exercise, during exhaling imagine the pain going away. Does anyone have something better or different? Thank you.
Glad to see Baki is makin a breakthrough😂
That last ep was garbage but damn if I'm not gonna sweat buckets off my balls while doing the horse stance for hours while eating candy for energy.
Thanks
should i do it everyday or give 1 day of rest beetween the trainings?
I like going to this when I'm teaching karate and students have that disdainful look on their face like "ugh, I thought this was gonna be a challenge". Then we do rising block punch combos while moving in a horse stance and they change their attitude.
Do you do it daily to reach 5 minutes?
Dr. Gundry looking good buddy
Try to Observe an object, sound, feeling, and thought without putting a label on it. You will find the real you, the changeless witness within.
Dumb question. I know the video was accelerated during the demo, but were you also doing yoga breathing or breathing techniques?
One hour horse stance is crazy amazing!
Can you do this everyday? Do you recommend training it everyday?
Damn the phone is actually listening, saw this stance in Baki on netflix about 3 hours ago :O
Lmfao. Same. Gonna eat a bowl of candy for energy while I do since I can't paint worth a damn.
I mastered the horse stance cuz i always use it in the toilet😎
Thanks bro .I ike you body but what about 6 packs?
I started 3days ago just increased 15 sec to previously 1min.. man it hurts..
So how does it help my knees?
is the training only once a day? and thrice a week?
This video was ten times better because you did it shirtless. Good for you bro