Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan gave us 17 seconds of air time exposure!
The most common mistake I see with with Xingyi Quan Drilling Fist is their fist travels along a straight path, diagnoally. This is not a wrong way to punch, many styles do this as the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. However, this is NOT Xingyi.
We had some students in pain. So this is a post to share some Chinese woo-woo. If you can’t wrap your mind around woo-woo, just skip ahead!
Two foundational building blocks of Bagua Zhang, the Piercing Palm and the Changing Palm. Here’s are some high level thoughts.
We talk a little bit about what the Half Step is, and how Legend Xing Yi practitioners Guo Yun Shen was uncontested with his Half Step Beng Quan (Thrusting Fist)!
Out of our 4-step progression to Bagua Circle Walking, this is some explanation on our progression #2 the small step (this is a literal translation of 小步 xiao bu), and 3 common mistakes people make. Different schools and lineages have slight variations on this, but directionally they all point to the same concepts. We breakdown our stepping into a 5-step…