Xue Sheng
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I no longer train Xingyi and when I did I had what I thought was a fairly good grasp on the way to execute the first posture (Splitting or I believe the Chinese is Piquan) of Xingyi 5 elements and I felt I had a fairly good idea where the power came from too.
I have been doing a lot of training of other CMA styles recently. One of which I have felt surprising similarities to Xingyi, particularly splitting. But today and all of a sudden while standing in the break room at my office the correct way to execute splitting hit me and it gave a lot more power in the actual strike (luckily I was alone in the break room at the time) and made sense as to why standing in San ti (Xingyi stance training) was soooooo very important to Xingyi.
It also made it perfectly clear what my last Sifu was saying when he said there is no moving backwards in Xingyi. As well as what my first Sifu was trying to say when he said Xingyi doesn’t retreat.
I know stance training is not well accepted these days and I am not trying to convert anyone, I am just saying what made sense before but it makes perfect sense now.
Just wanted to post that and ask if anyone else has had a sudden realization as it applies to Martial arts before and if so what was it?
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I have been doing a lot of training of other CMA styles recently. One of which I have felt surprising similarities to Xingyi, particularly splitting. But today and all of a sudden while standing in the break room at my office the correct way to execute splitting hit me and it gave a lot more power in the actual strike (luckily I was alone in the break room at the time) and made sense as to why standing in San ti (Xingyi stance training) was soooooo very important to Xingyi.
It also made it perfectly clear what my last Sifu was saying when he said there is no moving backwards in Xingyi. As well as what my first Sifu was trying to say when he said Xingyi doesn’t retreat.
I know stance training is not well accepted these days and I am not trying to convert anyone, I am just saying what made sense before but it makes perfect sense now.
Just wanted to post that and ask if anyone else has had a sudden realization as it applies to Martial arts before and if so what was it?
XS