Like a lot of xingyi practitioners, I am intensely curious about how xingyi was actually trained in the early days of the style, i.e. the second and third generations of practitioners who really made the Read more…
One thing that is fascinating to me about traditional CMA is discovering connections between teachers from traditions that were ostensibly separate but were around the CMA scene at the same time. One such connection I Read more…
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…
Readers who have been following the internal martial arts (IMA) for a while and in particular xingyi enthusiasts will have heard of the book Xingyi Neigong by Tim Cartmell and Dan Miller (originally published way Read more…