I was taught that Xingyiquan is essentially the "Originator" of many "Internal Martial Arts." It is the Father of Taiji/Tai Chi, the Grandfather to Baguazhang (Pa Kua). one of the creme de la creme of CIMA in my humble opinion (and pay accordingly) try Serge Augier of Paris, France, he does online learning too.ĭa Xuan – An Ancient Tradition for Today's World Learn the internal arts of Chen tai chi, xingyi, baguazhang and qigong Then there's Ken Gullette who is quite well known in the community and has offered online courses for some time I believe: I know (of) this guy Paul from the UK who seems decent and he has an online course: With Skype and things like that available it can be relatively fruitful. You might consider a distance learning set up of which there are some success stories certainly. Even if it's just likeminded folks to begin with. In my opinion that is.Īnd FWIW I know of a Yang Taiji lineage (Fu Zongwhen) being practiced in India, so reach out and look anyway, as you just never know who or what's around if you don't. You only need practice (regularly) one of those sets at any given time as they cover fairly common ground. Quality of practice over quantity everytime. I am familiar with them over the years and I would say that you would be fine just going with the Cartmell Xingyi Neigong set.
But ask yourself, do you really need every exercise from all of those ? It's quite common in martial arts to catch FOMO fear of missing out. One thing that jumps out at me is that you list 3 sets of exercises. Personally I'm not against 'open learning' per se, but the caveat is that you should be realistic about how much you can really achieve by yourself.Īlways be on the look out as you never know who is around, join social media groups and so on.
Sometimes there's no getting round a bit of trial and error. It will only amount to a personal preference or what is the best material available or open to you. The specific lineage in not very important.
I regard everyone as my senior or sifu replying on this post, salute. It would be appreciated if anyone could talk more about the pathway of cultivating the inner instead of just instructing to practice San ti shi, 5 elements and 12 animals. If possible please provide any links or text material. I humbly request everyone to please instruct me in identifying the correct pathway in xingyi and which lineage should i follow(every book and video has different version of the same quan). In India all they teach is kickboxing whether it is katrate dojo or kung fu. I could be wrong but i have limited resources as in direct contact with any martial practitioners so all i can do is observe, read and practice through videos and books. Okinawan Te = washed out fujian white crane karate = washed out okinawan Te Olympics karate= might become.TaekwondoFied karate I read certain forums on Ming,An, Hua jin and realized may be the okinawans did learn pure chinese martial art + internal training, but when japanese sold karate to the world they had only empty shells with them. I used to do 'Hata yoga' earlier but the principles and theories of xingyi has got my attention. I dont have a xingyi sifu here and i am sure i wont get because this is India. And now i realize all those years i was practicing a washed out stage show martial performance.
Series of articles by "SAL Canzonieri" on 'Natural Traditional Chinese Martial Arts' on his website were an eye opener for me.
yang jwing ming's lecture series on qi gong + essence of shaolin white crane. I have been researching and practicing on my own for around a year xingyiquan(di guoyang youtube series+ tim cartmell neigong book+ book Li Wen Bin) and qi gong (baduanjin + yi jin jing) I have prior experience of shotokan for 4 years and goju ryu for 1 year.