The Rose Li School: Hsing Yi Basics

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REGISTER Private tuition Open access LINEAGE The Rose Li School has its lineage from one of the greatest boxers China has produced. Read more.	Extract from Manual 3: Hsing Yi Basics Instruction Manual 3: Hsing Yi Basics can be purchased for £25 here. This manual has been written in response to the numerous requests I’ve had from students to write something on xingyi. My own experiences over a period of nearly thirty years, of spending money on Xingyi books in the hope that they would tell me something relevant, something practical - i.e. beyond pictures of form and rehashes of previous books – was a significant motivational factor. It’s my sincere hope that this manual properly fits the bill, in other words, tells the reader how xingyi is done and why the mechanism used is so different to most other martial arts. Much has been written about Xingyi essentials or fundamentals, but it is often unclear what these actually mean. Again, if you know the basic principles of the system these come clear – if you understand the mechanism that we use to release strength everything becomes consistent and obvious; practice is simply integrating this into your body, in other words learning the form is only the first stage in a life long learning process. Forms are considered as ‘problem sets’ that you have to apply in order to understand the principles that underlie the system. In our system additional forms, such as the animal forms in Xingyi, simply give you an additional, more difficult set of questions to answer, therefore if you actually understand the principles and their application the doing of these additional forms becomes less relevant. The linking form within our School not only comprises linking the Wu Hsing together but also has a form comprised of some of the animal sequences. The animal sequence linking form is there to give you a foundation for the animal forms, in a similar manner to Pi in the Wu Hsing, but is also carried out in a number of specific ways, emphasising not only the releasing strength aspect of Xingyi but also its sinuous nature. Practice, therefore, becomes less about learning the forms but more about how you do them. Again, consistent practice with insight and more practice is the true secret of the art. Forms are taught, within the School, by non-referral to external phenomena; fingers are not lined up with the nose for example in Pi Chuan. The form is leant by reference to practical applications of the principles i.e. tools. © Copyright. All textual and graphical content on this web site is copyright to the Rose Li School. Use or reproduction of content on this web site, other than for the purposes of personal browsing of this site, is expressly prohibited without the written permission of the Rose Li School.