Excercise 5 - Standing cuts

This is an excercise based on Figueyredo's 3rd simple rule, which introduces the standing cuts, which means cuts that you give while standing still. To compensate for this you turn your hips into the cut by pivoting the back foot, generating a lot of power. It is also a great starting point from where you can follow up with other techniques, as I show in this video. I first do a standing cut, then 2x standing cuts in succession, standing cut followed by a descending cuts, standing cut followed by an ascendi