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One Common Mistake of Xingyi Drilling Fist (Water Element / Zuan Quan)

One Common Mistake of Xingyi Drilling Fist (Water Element / Zuan Quan)

This is a very common mistake I see among Xingyi Quan practitioners.

It is so common, I start to doubt if I was taught correctly by my Shifu.

So I looked up old books and manuscripts just to double check.

Nope, I’m pretty confident I was taught correctly.

At least what I learned aligns with all the Xingyi texts out there.

Go check them out if you have doubts.

The most common mistake I see with with Xingyi Quan Drilling Fist is their fist travels along a straight path, diagonally. I added the red arrow to illustrate the path of the hands.

One Common Mistake of Xingyi Drilling Fist (Water Element / Zuan Quan)

This is WRONG. Some styles punch like this, and it is okay. The shortest distance between two places is a straight path. Yes, I get it. No problem with that punch at all, but it is not Xingyi.

In Xingyi, the path of the fist is specifically called out. Our hands travel in a circular (more like oval) path, while we twist our forearm like a drill (hence drilling fist).

Here’s the picture straight from the book, fist going out:

One Common Mistake of Xingyi Drilling Fist (Water Element / Zuan Quan)

Here is retracting the fist, coming back:

One Common Mistake of Xingyi Drilling Fist (Water Element / Zuan Quan)

For those of you that want to do your own research, the book I referred to is:

形意拳入門講座 // Introductory Lectures to Xing Yi Quan

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