Door-Crossing

At those words, Ying Chou maintained a solemn expression, but his heart was extremely uneasy. In his view, this was Young Grandmaster Chen Cheng inspecting how well their Eagle Claw Sect's Eagle Claw Technique measured up.

So he spared no effort in explaining the Eagle Claw Technique's stance training to Chen Cheng.

This stance training was actually a method of cultivation in Ancient Martial Arts. Its core was training a martial artist's stability and explosive power.

There were several kinds of stance training familiar to the public. For example, everyone knew the Horse Stance, which was the stance training of Southern Fist's Hong Fist.

The Horse Stance might look simple, but that was because many people had only learned its outward form. A true Horse Stance required the legs to be spread parallel, with a distance of three foot-lengths between the feet. Then one squatted down, keeping the toes parallel and pointing forward without turning them outward.

At the same time, both knees had to push outward, without extending past the toes, while the thighs remained parallel to the ground.

The hips had to be tucked inward and forward, without sticking out the buttocks. This made the crotch form an arc, commonly called a rounded crotch. The chest had to be held in and the back straightened without puffing out the chest; the chest had to remain flat and the back rounded, with both fists held at the waist.

Ordinary people merely imitated the shape, yet even so, they could not hold it for more than half an hour. There was no need to mention a true Horse Stance, whose stance training had to be practiced for two hours at a time.

The Eagle Claw Technique's stance training was naturally different from Hong Fist's stance training. After all, one was