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[a previous post describes the animals and their qualities]

From others blogs:http://northstarmartialarts.com/blog1/?p=35

My own experience is that deep stance training is more effective than stretching and high kicks for re-making young Northern Shaolin students bodies so that they have a bigger range of movement potential. This is sometimes called, “getting the qi in the channels.”
While in my twenties, an hour a day of low stance training initially made my thigh muscles and shoulder muscles bigger, but as time passed and my alignment improved my muscles got smaller and smaller. This is sometimes called, “qi going into the bones.”

It’s true, my muscles got smaller. My alignment improved and along with it my ability to issue power, to connect (integrate), twist, and pulse (open/close). Believe it or not, I got weaker. Not lazy or deficient but muscularly weaker and functionally more sensitive.

Xinjyi Dragon and Tiger Stances: http://dojorat.blogspot.com/2010/04/chasing-another-dragon.html
More on the Dragon Stance: http://dojorat.blogspot.com/2010/05/xingyi-dragon-discussion.html

Doing this step back and forth across the room is a great exercise for the hips and leg twisting muscles. Bit hard on the knees.

The difference in their forms really show the unity and uniqueness that makes forms interesting.


Xing Yi Quan more or less translates to Form & Will Boxing, which I think deserves the title as the coolest name of any martial art.

If it were Will Form Fist it would take the title no question.

This is alot like the 2nd form here – http://sworddueling.com/?p=100

See the dust raised by Buddha’s Warrior Pounds Mortar. Like thunder.

I’d like to see how these spins work in combat. Very kumdo in that aspect.