Your ability to move and generate power is going to be dictated by your stance. If you have a proper fighting stance you should have equal reach with both hands the ability to throw kicks or do techniques from your stance. You should not have to raise or lower your hips in order to execute a move. If you fighting stance is too wide or to short you will not have the ability to move in any one direction and to generate the proper power that is needed to make the technique work. Also make sure you are not picking your foot up as the body will always want to go back into a side stance plus this makes your head go up and down and this is a telegraphed motion or tell that lets your opponent know exactly when you are going to move. To prevent this you should slide from one stance to the next. Making sure you are sliding in a straight line and not a crescent motion. The best way to do this is to open your stance up slide the forward leg straight back then close the stance down making sure you are in a proper heel toe relationship.
As the instructor watch your students head and see if it is going up and down as they move from one stance to the next a good drill to work on is have the student go up and down the Dojo floor in a fighting stance. Start at one end of the school and move forward from one fighting stance to the next, then have them go backwards from one fighting stance to the next.
As the student progresses through the ranks there fighting stance should change from a traditional stance to what we called a modified fighting stance. This is where they student has personalized his or her stance based on their own weight, size and fighting style. No two will be exactly alike but the underlying principle will be the same.
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