Advanced Dim Mak, Combat Breathing, Knockout Striking
Aggressive short range striking and grappling
Learn to fight with the energies behind the 5 elemental fists of Xing Yi
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An in depth curriculum with step by step lessons
There are 21 chapters in our Xing Yi intensive. With hard work and dedication it will take about 8 – 12 months to become proficient in all 21 chapters.
First thing’s first: Survival. The first question that must be answered by any martial artist or system is, âCan you fight?â If the answer is no, all the rest doesn’t matter. So before we get into the full Xing Yi program you learn how to fight with each fist. These methods are simple and direct so you can learn them quickly. You learn how to be âsuddenly quickâ so you can overwhelm the opponent before they see you move. Real fights are MESSY. …but many teachers and even some MASTERS seem to have forgotten this. Theyâll start with every maddening detail of the technique. …Nit picking every little thing… Problem is, in the beginning, when the adrenaline kicks in all that detail goes out the window and youâre left with gross motor movements. So, in the beginning, we keep it simple, direct and powerful. If you’ve had some previous Xing Yi training the first couple chapters may seem almost stupidly simple. By the end of this program, youâll be mixing and matching complex âenergeticsâ fighting principles and movements… …and youâll be able to USE it in a fight. …but ONLY because you started with simple application and an in depth study of the fundamentals.
Sigung Richard Clear has over 40 years of continuous study in the Martial Arts. His Xing Yi lineage is Guo Yunshen > Wang Xiangzhai > Lee Yingarng > Dr. Fred Wu > Tyrone Jackson All the Xing Yi masters in Sifu Clear’s lineage were known to travel and study form multiple teachers. Sifu Clear has continued this tradition studying from many teachers both in the US and in China. One of his most influential teachers is Willem ‘Uncle Bill’ de Thouars who Clear has studied with for over 20 years.
Even though he is in his 80s Willem de Thouars personal expression of Hsing-I is still internally powerful and shockingly sudden even today as of this writing.
Just wanted to say how glad I am about this material. The internal Push Hands and the Xing Yi course have in just a few weeks improved my martial skill tremendously.
MARK BAUMGĂRTNER
(Often just called âfistsâ or âelements.â)
In many systems these fists are learned as forms. Sometimes these forms are short and simple. just one or two movements. and in some systems they are more complex and intricate.
The important thing to know is that each of the elements represents an idea.
Being able to use that idea is whatâs important.
Being able to do a pretty form based on that idea is not.
The first part of the idea to understand is the basic physical movement of each element.
In this chapter you learn how to use the physical action of each element.
If you’ve trained some Xing Yi forms before, itâs important that you focus on these physical actions for a moment and forget about the form. (for now, donât worry weâll come back to it.)
The actions are whatâs important, and the simple you go about it in the beginning the better of youâll be in the long run.
The more you can use these actions from any kind of position, The more you will actually be able to fight with them.
The more stuck you are in the ABC specifics of a form the less functional it will be.
You also learn how to use these movements with many different tools. Elbows, Fingers, Palm, Fist or whatever is most appropriate at any given moment.
The movement is whatâs important, not the tool.
In this chapter you learn how to use the Internal Action of each fist.
These internal actions are what separate an internal martial art from an external one.
As you practice these actions your movement will become much faster and a lot more powerful. (with less effort)
Although each element represents one primary internal action, ALL of these internal actions are present in every element.
Focus on the internal actions individually for now. Make sure you get them down.
Soon weâll begin combining them and adding a lot more fighting principles, internal actions & âenergetics.â
So thatâs the first two chapters of Clear Kuntao Xing Yi.
At this point you already have a basic understanding of how to fight with Xing Yi and youâre beginning to build some real internal power and explosive speed.
In this chapter you will build an internal alignment we call âpost.â
We call it post because if someone pushes on you, or hits you, or you hit them they should feel as if they ran into a solid fence post or telephone pole.
This quality is a very important part of Xing Yi Quan.
First you learn some efficient ways to build these body mechanics.
(note: This training does not involve traditional Xing Yi âStanding Practice.â However if you already do some standing practice then the training in this chapter will help you do that standing practice more correctly and get more out of it.)
Then you learn how to move, strike and FIGHT with these principles.
This adds a LOT of power and body integrity to everything youâve learned already.
Once youâve developed this quality of movement and power… ..then the last half of this chapter is on how to aim and focus this power.
This is where you begin to develop the advanced internal Dim Mak of Xing Yi. This is also one type of 1 Touch Knockout hitting.
There are two ways use this.
The first one you learn is how to target someone’s whole body or âframe.â This will move somebody but it wonât normally injure them.
This method is great because you can practicing deliver power over and over without hurting your partner.
With a little practice youâll be able to âpopâ your training partner several feet through the air. This is great for demos because folks can easily see the amount of power you are delivering but no one gets hurt.
Internal Dim Mak
The second method youâll learn is how to target a small area inside the opponent.
Instead of moving them this method will rupture organs or break bones depending on where you aim.
This is the advanced Dim Mak and itâs the primary way you would strike for self defense.
Obviously you have to be careful training this skill.
Youâll learn several ways to train this safely with a partner as well as ways to train it with inanimate objects so you can work on building more power correctly and without hurting your training partners.
So thatâs chapter 3…
Youâll want to put some time into this. These principles are basic to any quality Xing Yi system
You will add these principles to everything you’ve learned so far and…
Everything in Chapters 4 – 21 builds on top of the skill you develop in this chapter.
The first thing you learn in this chapter is another way to add more power.
By itself this method should give your hits a bone breaking quality but youâre going to combine this with everything youâve learned so far for even more power.
(with a little practice this will double or triple your power.)
Now, at first folks who train this method have to move a little slowly to maintain the proper body state.
Thatâs why the very next thing you learn is how to use continuous explosive movement while keeping this kind of power in every part of the movement.
Last but not least you learn how to use your legs.
Though we’ve used the lower body a little, you’ve mostly learned about fighting with the upper body.
So now you learn how to kick, stomp and shred with your legs while still using everything else you’ve learned so far.
So thatâs Chapter 4.
This is one of the key differences between the internal arts.
Tai Chi Dissolves the center…
Bagua Moves the center…
and Xing yi fortifies the center.
Youâve been learning a lot of things that lend themselves to this principle already
but simply fortifying your center isnât enough.
So in this chapter you also learn to dominate the opponents center with your fortified center.
You learn to take control of their center and never let it go.
…And once you control it all of your strikes are driving right to their spine again and again and again.
So first you learn to use this principle
Then this chapter continues with 6 games that will help you and a partner refine this principle as well as tune up all the skills youâve learned so far.
…by working against a resisting opponent…
…while having fun
In this chapter you learn how to aggressively attack and run someone over like a freight train.
This is the primary fighting strategy of Hsing-I Chuan.
When given half a chance Hsing-I will quickly close on an attacker, run them over and come out the other side.
Machine Gun Hitting
The first thing you learn is how to deliver rapid multiple Fa Jing strikes.
This explosive short distance striking allows you to deliver whole body powered strikes at very close range.
You need this because the very next thing you learn is a principle call Smothering Zero Pressure.
Basically with this principle you will be able to shut down your opponents ability to do much of anything (because they have no room to do it)
…While you run them over…
âŠWhile you continue to blast and strike with full power.
The last thing you learn in this chapter is some leverage principles that allow you to take a much bigger attacker, pick them up and run them into a wall (or whatever) while still doing everything else youâve learned so far.
This is a short but very important chapter.The first thing you learn is how to use the hard parts of your body to protect the soft and vulnerable parts of your body.
However Xing Yi primarily uses this skill offensively.
So next you learn how each of the five element âshapesâ use this principle.
And then we take what youâve learned already, add this principle, and kick it up a notch…
…Until you can take almost any contact with an opponent and make it painful to them.
(Even when theyâre trying to strike you.)
Youâve already learned some basic self defense methods with each of the elements
And youâve started to put some of the core fighting principles, internal alignments and power generation methods of Xing Yi together.
Now its time to deepen your understanding of methods contained in each element.
First you learn some explosive blasting versions of the elements.
Then we go through each fist and step by step and you learn a bunch of fun ways to destroy and opponent with them.
Exactly what is sounds like.
In this chapter you learn some especially vicious ways to use each fist.
I know this sounds kind of like chapter 8. But in chapter 8 we focused on fighting methods that were unique to each fist.
In this chapter you learn several fighting methods and principles that are used by all the elements.
You learn how to destroy anything within reach and make it difficult for an attacker to get next to you.
You learn how to grapple with the five fists. (nothing to fancy yet. weâre sticking to stuff you can learn and use very quickly.)
You also learn a VERY powerful, leverage based, way to use the five fists. One thatâs very useful if someone gets too close and is trying to smother or grapple you.
The five fists are the foundation of Xing Yi that everything else is derived from.
Part of why our focus in this program is on the five fists is because if you have an in depth, functional understanding of the elements then everything else is just a variation on what you already know.
Youâve already learned a bunch of different ways to use and expression the five elements.
In this short chapter you learn how the animals relate to the 5 fists.
Here’s a clip from Chapter 16: Spring Power
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