Heisoku Dachi
閉足立ち
Literally: closed-feet stance
A high stance with the feet closed together side by side; unlike musubi dachi, the toes do not point outward.
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Heisoku dachi (閉足立ち), literally the closed-feet stance, is according to the Japan Karate Federation (JKF) a stance in which both feet are together and closed. The knees are slightly bent and it is a high stance. According to the English Wikipedia it serves mainly as a transition between other stances and in some kata as the starting stance yoi. JKF describes it as the closed counterpart to musubi dachi: in musubi dachi the toes point outward, in heisoku dachi the feet stand together parallel. In Shotokan kata according to JKA listings it appears in Heian Sandan (movements 2, 3, 5, 6 and 11), Heian Godan (movements 3, 6 and 22), Tekki Nidan (movement 5) and Bassai Dai (movements 22, 25b, 34 and 36).