Josealb wrote:Uhm...100% weight on one leg is more mobile than 50/50? are you high? Its thursday for gods sake. At least wait for the weekend.
Think about this. 100% on one leg means that you have to move ALL your weight into whatever direction, and you can only start by moving ONE leg. 50/50 means you're in the middle and you can go anywhere with little effort, stepping with whatever foot you want. You dont hop, you step.
And as soon as you begin to step, you are 100/0. 50/50 must become 100/0 before movement is possible. Therefore, 100/0 is more mobile, faster, than 50/50.
Stepping from either foot has a finite number of possible angles of travel that are effective. Ideally both feet would have identical, but directionally opposed, possible directions of motion, but conditioning and physical limitations cause them to vary, so one will have more good options than the other, in most cases. So, if you take the possible places you can move when weighted on one leg, and overlay them with the places you can move when weighted on the other leg, the result is that you have more places to move effectively, but not many more. There is far more overlap than uniqueness.
So you have slightly more options to move with weight evenly distributed between two feet, yes, I agree, but at what cost?
First, the weight has to be shifted fully to one leg before you can step, so you're adding time to the action of moving.
Second, you're adding options, more possibilities to be considered in the OODA loop before action can occur. Which is, again, time you're wasting.
As far as taekwondo goes, it's a different thing altogether. Xingyi as I understand it is a close-in approach to fighting, while Taekwondo works at range. And neither TKD nor boxing allows targeting the lower leg, so we're also dealing with that difference in concerns and strategy. I really haven't watched enough TKD to know much about the hopping, but they spend an awful lot of time in 100/0 weighted stances, as I recall. They just call them kicks.
I don't know what is meant by you have to move all of your weight, that isn't necessarily the case. From the 100/0, you can step in any direction and shift weight in whatever fashion you like. Shifting the weight completely to the other leg is just as fast as being weighted 50/50 and shifting it halfway.