Differences in Santi stance

[meeks]

ti ping luo kou (lift flat, place toe in)
yan deng (cover groin) by placing lead hip slightly ahead of back leg hip

[nianfong]

By "biting" do you mean trapping or seizing?... best wording I can think of....

Put your foot behind your opponent's leading foot and use your shin bone to press againt the insde of his leg.

Do you use the term biting for the outside version as well?

it's 撿腿
撿 means to pick something up off the ground. 腿 = leg. so my teacher translated it as "leg seizing"

outside version is called 反撿腿, "opposite leg seizing", though a better translation might be "outer leg seizing". so yes, it's would be the same term.

-Fong

[Aged Tiger]

Thanks Fong!

[johnwang]

There is some difference between a leg seizing that you intend to "pick up" your opponent's leg as Fong suggested vs. a leg biting that you intend to "press on" your opponent's leg as shown in this picture. The end result may be the same and that's either you get his leg or he gets away (this may be what you really want).

[bigphatwong]

If you

- turn your front toe in, you can protect your grion, and you can also bite your opponent's leg if in "uniforn stance"
- keep your front toe forwad , you are ready to move in.
- turn your front toe out, you can resist againt a low round house kick or a sweep, and you can also bite your opponent's leg if in "mirror stance"

Right, Yiquan's Jijizhuang does that as well. Structurally it provides less of an opening for kicks to penetrate while not exposing the knee to direct attack.