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Purpose of Stances

There are many techniques, movements and stances in Taekwon-Do and they all have a particular purpose, many have more than one. It is very important that you understand what you are doing and why - it is far easier to learn this way knowing and understanding than blindly waving your arms around. Further it also allows you to correct your own mistakes - you can practice on a friend and when you realise that the techniques does not work you can normally see where you are going wrong.

Please note that I will not list all the techniques - I certainly don't know them all for a start - but I will list many of the common stances, techniques etc with an explanation of what they are used for.

You can find some very useful images of how to correctly perform some stances at the following website.

Stances
Name Purpose Footprint Front View Side View
Parallel Stance This stance is useful for learning new techniques, it also allows the student a moment of contemplation before beginning a pattern/technique. It also allows the student to attack/defend when there is a limited amount of room for manoeuvre.      
Walking Stance Allows you to attack and to defend to your front and rear quickly and easily.      
Sitting Stance Allows you to attack and defend laterally easily. It can also be used for muscle development.      
L-Stance Allows you to attack with the front foot quickly (as you do not need to move as much of your body weight) and is also a very manoeuvrable stance.      
Rear Foot Stance Allows you to move the front foot spontaneously and accordingly lets you move closer to your opponent quickly, it also allows you to attack with the front foot quickly.      
Low Stance Allows you to extend the reach of the attacking tool, it also helps to develop muscles.      
Bending Ready Stance A Allows you to be prepared to attack with Side Piercing Kick or Side Thrusting Kick.      
Bending Ready Stance B Allows you to be prepared to attack with Back Piercing Kick.      
X-Stance This is generally a transitional stance - i.e. for moving from one stance to another or from one spot to another. It is also useful for attacking the side or front in a jumping motion.

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