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Weight on the balls of your feet. Don't let your knees droop inwards (i.e. open the stance properly). Keep your back straight. Keep your stance dynamic - i.e. don't try to act like a stone but learn to move in it, to it, from it and with it.
Enjoy!
By "sinking in" I mean that one should find a correct way to open the stance and drop into it. For most, the most comfortable stance height is below their "ow, now it hurts" -level. And, as it happened with Rami at first - it often is easier to step into stance than just drop straight to it. It was actually interesting to see it - when Rami just dropped downwards and tried to take the stance, everything went wrong - stance, balance, everything. When he stepped into the stance, he opened his hip joints properly and could sink a lot deeper into stance, as well as use the stance properly (move in it, with it and from it). That was the point he begun working with the technique and, nowadays, knows how to "build" the stance also without stepping into it.
After learning how the stance is done as a low version, one can actually apply the principles into higher, narrower "shikodachi" as well - and to do a shikodachi without opening the hips or feet at all (i.e. use the principles instead of an external form). I think that it's the idea of pretty much every karate movement - to exaggerate, drill and understand the principles that are later freely in use even when the external form doesn't show at all.
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