Xing Yi / Hsing-I (Mind-Form Boxing)
The overwhelming force of a tsunami. The concentrated energy of a laser beam. Hsing-i, also written xingyiquan, is the old internal martial art of focused power. Although the art is often described as being 700 years old, something special happened to a subset of the art around 100 years ago to make it "internal." That line, the first of the hisng-i traditions to be labeled as "internal" by the famous master Sun Lu-tang in his books published in the 1920s, is the focus of Chi Arts instruction and the hsing-i pages that follows. TO BE ADDED: LINK TO HSING I AS INTERNAL ALCHEMY- and HSING I POWER AND CLOSE COMBAT DEVELOPMENT
Our Hsing-I Lineage
Cheng Huai-sen (Zheng Huaixien) 2nd from right Nicknamed, “Flying Spear” was one of the six-man, one woman team who demonstrated Chinese martial arts at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Cheng was Ho Shen-ting’s teacher, who taught John Bracy SEE OUR HSING-I LINEAGE
Later we’ll explain why this video is crucial for Hsing-I/ xingyiquan as well. If you want your hsing-i /xingyiquan to be powerful and deceptively dangerous, YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO: (DON’T BE A SHEEP. DARE TO STEP AWAY FROM THE MASSES OF COMMON PRACTITIONERS)
The videos on this page feature the hsing-i/ xingyiquan taught by instructors of the Chi Arts Association. One includes Master Ho Shen-ting, instructor Garrett Tucker and other instructors practicing advanced forms and, hsing-i applied to close combat. The next video focuses on hsing-i’s “animal style” with special attention to the “snake.” The third video in the group demonstrates hsing-i’s “linking form,” with special emphasis on the Taoist inner alchemy technique called “bone marrow washing.”
