johnwang wrote:Robert Young wrote: I 'm trying to critisize my own lineage, it is simply a fact.
In the past 2 days, I have tried to turn on my heel for at least a 100 times. everytime I have the feeling that my foot was "stucked" on the ground as if somone is pulling on my leg back. It's not a good feeling at all.
Also I don't know how to generate power from my heel because I cannot "spring" like an olympic sprinter. Do you believe that the best stance (posture) is the stance (posture) that you can spring out of it?
It simply a habit from training. If you are used to spin on the ball of your foot, you have hard time to use you heel. I'm used to spin with my heel, I have no problem with that and I can use the ball of my foot to spin too.
Let say you use bow and arrow stance to punch forward. To use your back heel as pivit point to turn is to force yourself to stand solid "before" you hit forward, which will give you a solid backup of your punch. Using the ball to turn tends to create a habit that you spin your back foot "while" you punch, and that motion will not give you a solid backup of your foot and body because your body is moving backward while you punch forward. That is the main purpose of pivoting on heel.