Xingyiquan
Bagua / Xingyi master Pei Xirong
The following translation is an excerpt taken from this article . “Pei Xirong was born in 1913 in Raoyang county in Hebei province. His father was a core member of the Yi He Tuan [1], and his Read more…
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‘Iron Arm’ Wang Fuyuan
Flicking through Dan Miller and Tim Cartmell’s excellent book ‘Xingyi Neigong” (pictured below) the other day, I was curious about the master Wang Jiwu, whose exercises are profiled therein. It turns out Wang’s branch of Read more…
Xingyiquan
Che Style Prohibitions
Che style xingyiquan, and professor Che Xiangqian, have been very ably introduced by Jarek Szymanski in his article here. Below is a translation of an article written by Professor Che on a Chinese martial arts forum (www.wushu2008.cn) which puts forward Read more…
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Xingyiquan of Shang Ji
Shang Ji was an unusual figure in the CMA world in that he was both a respected academic (a Professor of Mechanics at Xi’an Jiaotong University) and also a well-known master of Hebei Xingyiquan. The Read more…
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Che style Xingyi of Bu Bingquan
Because most practitioners of xingyi in the West belong to the Hebei branch, the giants of that subset (Guo Yunshen, Li Cunyi and Sun Lutang to name but three) are, if not household names, then Read more…
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Song style Xingyi in Shanghai – Li Guoliang
Below is a translation of an excerpt from this article: “The Song-style xingyi master Li Guoliang is a noted fighter who received the full transmission from Hao Zhanru, who was a student of Jia Yun-gao (one Read more…
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Song style Xingyi in Tianjin – Li Xuzhou
Song style xingyi, noted for its unique power generation and relatively ‘softer’ approached compared to Hebei variants of xingyi, is one of the rarest of the main xingyi styles, even in China. The vast majority Read more…