Having your heel on the ground and being grounded in your technique are connected to each other a lot, but they don't always have to be. You can still be grounded without having your heel on the ground, and you can have your heel on the ground without being grounded. To me having my heel on the ground makes it much easier to be grounded compared to having that little bit of extra range with my heel off of the ground. At the same time, I feel that I sometimes have my heel on the ground without being grounded. This usually happens when I am using my upper body for my strength instead of my whole body. When practicing, I understand why the Sifu's don't teach us about how to stay grounded without your heel on the ground as it is fairly easy to mess up, and without good eye for detail you wouldn't be able to see that you're not doing it correctly. I have found this thought in my mind more often last week with the raised reverse punch technique we were doing in class. I found that when I was lifting my heel, I had more range, but I wasn't as grounded as I could've been. Finding my grounding is something that I will be looking deeper into while training.
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