I just ordered this book after reading the first few chapters. Seems like solid advice on improving your kungfu....
Try the request a teacher section over at http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi I'm quite sure there are xingyi teachers...
I can see why I've stayed away from hapkido forums for so long. Bicker, bicker, bicker. Time in grade is a silly criteria for promotion. If...
Going farther off-topic here: Rank is the worst thing that ever happened to hapkido, IMO. It's unimportant and silly. If somehow, some way all...
Muslim Xingyi is actally Xin Yi Liu He Quan, Xingyi's anscestor art. Neither system has five animals, XYLH has ten, XY has twelve. AS far as I can...
You might try the request a teacher section over at emptyflower.com. I know there are some australian xingyi guys on that board.
This guy is a poster on another site and a disciple of Li Tai Liang. Never met him, but online at least, he's a hell of a nice guy....
I don't know what a capercaillie is, but the animals ins xingyi are Chicken Horse Eagle Bear Sparrowhawk Swallow Aligator (though this...
Go ahead and start, you should get plenty to practice while you're out of town.
Be careful... Seems like a fun weapon though... maybe look up some Okinawan form video and see what you can gather. I don't see why these wouldn't...
I wonder if in Estonia everyone leaves their arms extended after trying and failing to hit you. If so, then this was really sweet. Otherwise, just...
After doing conditioning or anthing that's going to bruise we always rub the area that's been bruised with solid force going away from the heart....
Good stuff. I too practice with a heavy bag, though I generally do it with my fist an inch or two off the bag. That's good practice on finding...
Thanks for the clips middleway... It seems to me (no expert) that short power in our system is simply the result of proper body mechanics....
I think even if landed correctly, the amount of power you would need to break the knee is such that these techniques are no more dangerous than,...
Oooh xingyi, baqua, yiquan... might get some good combatitve IMAs here. Could be good stuff.
I'm sure it's just personal preference. I'm fairly aggressive in a spar and I like to be up close to jam my opponent, some people might like to...
It does seem like they teach a lot of styles and their blurb on the kung fu page is a bit confusing... it sounds like they teach taichi and hung...
Plumflower, we'd once disagreed about what range xingyi tends to focus in... to me even though hebei xingyi is a bit extended, I still try to use...
Really? That sucks. I love those kicks and as you say it's not easy to break a knee. Kinda sucks that they're outlawed. FWIW - I'm thinking a...
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