Stances: Rooting vs. Connecting

In past instruction and posts I have professed the need to root your stance to apply technique, this is wrong. I have come to a conclusion, for me, that rooting relays incorrect application of a stance, any stance.

To root connotes one must stop, root solid which is actually a pause, then apply a technique. This is not the path to power in technique. The correct way to practice is to connect to the Earth for the moment when body movement, weight transfer, range, timing, placement, etc [not necessarily in this order]. all are applied in a single moment only.

Stances as has been posted is a transitional or fluid pose. You enter a stance, connecting to the Earth while applying force to a technique then moving out of that stance into the next, same or different as needed, stance and technique.

Rooting to the Earth, not effective; Connecting to the Earth, primo effective in properly applying all the concepts to one end result, not getting hit and ending the conflict.