Heisoku-dachi 閉足立ち
Closed-feet stance
The technique, and its job.
Feet together and parallel, legs straight. A transitional position rather than a fighting one: it appears at the start of several kata and in the moment of gathering before a technique opens outward.
Application. The gathered moment before a technique opens — the start position of several kata, and the closing of a sequence.
Mechanics
What each part of the body does, in the order it does it.
- Weight distribution
- Even, upright.
- Feet
- Together and parallel, inner edges touching.
- Knees
- Straight, soft.
- Centre of gravity
- Spine vertical, weight through the centre of both feet.
What survives when the name is forgotten.
- A gathering point. Its function is to be left.
- Feet together is maximally unstable laterally, which is why it is passed through rather than held.
Common errors, and how to fix them.
Naming a fault teaches nobody. Each one below carries why it happens and what corrects it.
Why it happens. Misreading a transition as a position.
The fix. Understand where in the sequence it occurs and what it is preparing.
Drills
- Trained in place, within the kata that use it.
Where it appears.
Kihon is the vocabulary, kata is the literature, kumite is the conversation. Every link below was written down deliberately; none of it was inferred from a name matching.
- Heian Godan Peaceful mind, fifth level
- Kanku Dai To view the sky, major
- Gankaku Crane on a rock
- Zenkutsu-dachi Front stance
- Kokutsu-dachi Back stance
- Kiba-dachi Horse-riding stance
- Fudo-dachi Rooted stance, immovable stance
- Neko-ashi-dachi Cat-foot stance
- Hangetsu-dachi Half-moon stance
- Sanchin-dachi Hourglass stance
- Musubi-dachi Joined-feet stance, heels together with toes out
- Hachiji-dachi Open-leg stance, "figure eight" stance
The Japanese, explained.
- Heisoku-dachi 閉足立ち
- Closed-feet stance. Feet together and parallel. A gathering point passed through rather than held.
Video
No recording in the register is tagged to Heisoku-dachi. MMAKF has not filmed this technique, and the discovery pass did not find an external recording specific enough to attribute to it without guessing.
Nothing is shown here rather than a search link dressed up as a demonstration. What has been found, checked and registered is listed in full on the source register.
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