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3. What is the weight distribution between the front and back legs? If one maintains the three verticals, the weight distribution will naturally be correct.
One thing that I must mention to you. The San Ti posture that appears in my father’s book was changed when my father was about sixty years old. In the book, the front hand is shown with the fingers pointing straight out (see photo 1). When he was sixty he changed the font had position so that the fingers pointed upward and the wrist was bent. Because his book had already spread widely by the time he changed this posture, I suggested that he take a photograph of himself in the new posture so that when I taught people the posture later and they pointed to his book to say I was wrong I could show them this picture (see photo 2).
Photo 1
Photo 2
4. Why did he change the posture? He felt that when the hand was held out straight the Qi () was projected out of the hand. He said that this was good for fighting but was not good for cultivation. When cultivating the Qi, one should keep the Qi in the body. When the hand is held up, the Qi is held in the hand and re-circulated.
5. What forms did your father’s complete Xing Yi system contain? He taught San Ti Shi (trinity standing), Wu Xing Quan (Five element fists), Wu Xing Lian Huan (File Elements Linking set), Wu Xing Sheng Ke (Five Elements creative and destructive fists), the twelve animal styles, Za Shi Chui (mixed form beating), An Shen Pao (stable body pounding) and Ba Shi (eight forms). Everything is in his book except for the Ba Shi.
6. So he did not teach other popular Xing Yi forms such as Shi Ex Hong Chui or Ba Zi Gong? No.
7. What Xing Yi weapons did he teach? He taught the straight sword, the broadsword, and the spear. Before he died he was two-thirds finished with his sixth book which was to detail the Xing Yi spear set. Before he died he gave me the material and asked me to finish the book. However, the material was stolen from me before I had the chance to finish the book.
8. What was his favorite weapon? The Ba Gua straight sword. He liked that the straight sword has blades on both sides.
9. Did he learn the Ba Gua sword form that he put into his book The Study of Ba Gua Sword from Cheng Ting Hua, or did he create that from himself? He created that form himself based on what he had learned from Cheng Ting Hua.