How do I get more balance? I practice jeet kune do and have a background on taekwondo.?

Question

my lower body when hit is easily weakened how do I obtain balance on it?

Answer 1

You train ever day as hard as you can as long as you can. That's how you improve any aspect of your art.

Answer 2

Balance is made up of several different factors.  Your inner ear plays a large factor in balance, your eyes also help a lot, and the muscles of your feet and legs.  You can stregthen and condition your legs and feet, learn to use your eyes more effectively, and even condition your inner ear.

First, close your eyes and turn in a circle three times quickly.  Did you get dizzy, fall down, stagger around?  Try with your eyes open, was it different?  This time be sure to keep a bend in your knees.  (You can greatly improve your balance on the street just by bending your knees.)Now you have an idea of how these things factor into balance.

The inner ear can greatly benefit from conditioning.  Practice turning circles and immediately executing a series of punches and/or kicks.  Start with three or five and work up to ten  or more.  The more often you do this the easier it becomes.  You can also practice using shoulder rolls or somersaults.  different axis means different use of the ear.

Your art should already teach you about using your eyes.

Feet and legs.   First toss the $100 Nikes and try going barefoot more.  You have a tone of muscles in your feet that help you balance, but our fancy shoes do so much work for us that those muscles atrophy and struggle without the shoes. work the muscle in your feet by using your toes to pull you across the floor or pull a towel under your feet.  Toe raises on the stairs and with one leg are good too.

Practice balance drills.  I have three things I use for this.  (My own balance is rebuilding due to a bad knee injury.)  First, a balance beam.  I actually have two they are three inches wide and the top is rounded with only about an inch actually flat.  I walk up and down the beams, one foot on each, practicing strikes and kicks.  This forces me to use my foot muscles and keep my knees bent.

The second thing I use a lot are balance pads.  They are plascti/rubber disks full of air.  Stand on one or a pair and practice your techniques.  Most of them will allow you to add air which makes the task harder.

Finally I have a pair of 'dots'.  i do not know what they are called.  They look like a ball, maybe 6 inches, cut in half and sealed across the diameter so they hold air.  The flat, 'cut', side is smooth and the surface of the ball part is covered with small round bumps.  Standing on the round side is and doing techniques or kata is more difficult than the pads, if you turn them over and stand on the flat side it is harder yet.  The small size requires your feet to work very hard.

Answer 3

horse stance is good choice

Answer 4

i no how hard it is to get balanced in a jkd stance since ive done it an am doing it i also have a slight background in tae kwon do but well there are a few things......first off i want to ask how strong are your legs because strength has a bigg part in your balance though not everything and well if ur not strong enough ull be knocked down easy.....so do squats if u cannot get weight training for some reason do no weighted squats as demonstrated by martial arts masters and bruce lees the tao of jeet kune do and also u should stand on one leg and like just try to maintain that postition and a good way to practice is by look ing at an unmmooving objest an concentrating on it while balanceing on one leg....u can also try like yoga or tai chi at your local ymca or rec center...... in tae kwon do just kick a lot and your balance will be better for kicks and in jkd practice footwork because that can contribute to balan ce problems that u may have......also in jkd if ur off balanced a good thing to do is just bend your knees a little more and lower your center of gravity and any balance training helps because even if it aint that motion balance in ur ear brain thing will build up soooooo yeah

Answer 5

Broad base (distance between the feet.)

Low center of gravity.

Center of gravity located between your feet.