Stance and Weight Distribution

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Everyone says that your weight should be evenly distributed on both feet, but unless both feet are side by side, that's impossible. If you are right handed, your right leg is behind and your left leg is forward, and beyond that is your bridge arm and upper body. You can either put your weight forward, backward, left, or right. I just can't seem to find a way to make it even all around. When YOU get down in your stance, where is your weight distrubuted? If it's even (which I doubt), how do you make it like that?
 
Weight distribution

LowEnglish said:
Everyone says that your weight should be evenly distributed on both feet, but unless both feet are side by side, that's impossible. If you are right handed, your right leg is behind and your left leg is forward, and beyond that is your bridge arm and upper body. You can either put your weight forward, backward, left, or right. I just can't seem to find a way to make it even all around. When YOU get down in your stance, where is your weight distrubuted? If it's even (which I doubt), how do you make it like that?

Weight should be distributed as such: 60% on your back leg,
40% on your front leg. I like to think of it like a standing position
for shooting a rifle being lowered onto the table. It is easy to start
putting too much weight on the front leg which can result in you
looking down on your shots in lieu of through your shots, and will
cause you to miss.
 
between your legs and bridge hand, your weight should be distributed in such a way that if someone accidentally brushed against you, it wouldn't knock you off balance. The key is stability.
Steve
 
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