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   Liang Shou-Yu's Xing Yi video contains ALL the principal xing yi forms: THE FIVE FISTS&emdash;splitting, smashing, drilling, pounding, and crossing&emdash;LINKING THE FIVE FISTS, Creative and Destructive Five Fists, and THE TWELVE ANIMALS.

   The Five Fists are the fundamental Xing Yi Forms. Each trains a different attacking method and each method uses force in a different way. Each of the Five Fists works the muscles of the torso in a different way so that each imparts health to a different region and to different organs.

   The Linking Form combines the Fists. Creative and Destructive Fists teaches attack/defense patterns. The Animals are specific applications of the uses of power taught in the Five Fists. The video includes not only all twelve animal forms but also shows their most basic applications with a two-person demonstration.

   The forms are demonstrated by two of Liang's top students, and the applications are demonstrated by Liang himself.

    This book is a Classic in the internal martial arts world because it is simply the best concise source available on the principal practice of Xing Yi--standing meditation. This might seem strange for a book on moving nei gong exercises, but it isn't: moving exercises substantively benefit the practitioner only if they are done while maintaining the proper postural alignments, and those alignments are instilled into the body by way of standing. For that reason, the book includes the absolutely essential essays on San Ti Shi posture holding that are the hallmark of Xing Yi. A quote from the book nicely sums up the importance of standing and moving power training exercises: "If one practices martial forms without also training for power, in the end one will have achieved nothing."

     Nei Gong--training of muscle groups, ligaments, and tendons not usually under conscious control--is the too often forgotten sister of the more familiar Chi Kung (the coordinated movement of the body with breath control in order to increase circulation to the distal points of the extremities). Nei Gong, Chi Kung, and Wai Kung (Wai Kung: the most obvious aspects of any martial art, like balance, flexibility, and coordination that allows proper gross body movement), are three aspects of martial ability and development that together form any complete martial training program.    

    Xing Yi Nei Gong  includes (1) the Sixteen Nei Gong exercises handed down by the famous Xing Yi master Wang Ji Wu (1891-1991) described in detail and shown in clear, easy-to-follow photographs of Wang Ji Wu's disciple Zhang Bao Yang (1922- ) plus historic photographs of Wang performing the same set, (2) invaluable 25+ pages chapter on Xing Yi's foundational Standing Practice (San Ti Shi), (3) Xing Yi Written Transmissions on all aspects of practice, taken from hand-copied manuscripts handed down from 3rd and 4th generation practitioners Dai Long bang and Li Neng Ran, (4) Xing Yi Five Elements Long Spear power training exercises demonstrated by Zhang Bao Yang.

   The DVD supplements the text by showing the well known internal martial arts teacher Tim Cartmell performing the exercises as discussed and pictured in the book.

   A Xing Yi classic. Written by the famous Xing Yi master Li Cunyi or 'Single Saber Li' (1847-1921), the first high-level Xing Yi practitioner to study Ba Gua Zhang. Chapters on Linking Fist (Linking the Five Fists or Five Elements), Four Extremities and Eight Reminders (the Eight Character Secret), the two long sets of Xing Yi--Za Shi Chui and Ba Shi, and Nine Verses on the Trinity Standing Posture (San Ti Si), and detailed Xing Yi origins. If you want to study the details that make your Xing Yi Linking Form or your San Ti Si correct, correct from the inside and not merely 'correct looking', then this book is for you.

vol. 2

   Originally published by Lu Song'gao, a 13th generation lineage holder traced back to Xing Yi's founder Yue Wu Mu Wang (d. 1141), as an antidote to the poorly written, misleading, and inadequate martial arts books then available. Lu writes of his full-transmission student Pei Xirong, "He compiled and edited all the necessary points. He put his efforts into making this book the keystone, so that once grasped everything will fall into place." Here is a compendium of the essentials of not only the Henan style Xing Yi's Ten Big forms, but the essential points of Xing Yi in general.

    Includes Xing Yi history and Henan lineage, 23 methods and 16 'songs' (fighting philosophy and body movement theory), the Twenty-Two Necessities (essential points of internal practice), and the routines of the Big Form: Dragon, Tiger, MonkBy, Horse, Chicken, Swallow, Sparrowhawk, Snake, Eagle and Bear.

vol. 3

   A collection of numerous Xing Yi writings from famous teachers of various Xing Yi branches. The bulk of the book contains the following: 17 NEIGONG EXERCISES (Tongzi Gong) with pictures; "Songs," Discourse, and picture sequences of the following foundational Xing Yi forms--Pi Quan, Zuan Quan, Beng Quan, Pao Quan, Heng Quan (The FIVE ELEMENT FISTS), MUTUAL CREATION and DESTRUCTION FORM, and LINKING FORM (Lianhuan); lineage chart spanning four generations of Xing Yi practitioners; History of Xing Yi, both Southern and Northern.

   Also includes a large collection of various short discourses on The Six Combinations, Four Extremities, "Song" of San Ti Standing Posture, Discourse on Xing Yi and Ba Gua Zhang combined as one, The Eight Necessities, The Nine Verse Song and Eight Character Song of postural alignments necessary for the application of power. Jiang occupied a high position in the Chinese Martial Arts Publishing House, and believed Xingyi Mu Quan would serve as a benchmark publication, setting the high standards that would have to be met by future publications.