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The Xingyi Boxing Manual: Hebei Style's Five Principles and Seven Words | 
 enlarge | Creators: Jing Yunting, John Groschwitz
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 544234
Media: Paperback
Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 1556434731
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.8
EAN: 9781556434730
ASIN: 1556434731
Publication Date: March 2, 2004
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Product Description
Famed for its clear-minded, unstoppable practitioners, the martial art of Xingyi is known for both its street fighting quality and its spiritual practice. Written in China before World War II and never previously available in English, this is an invaluable illustrated guide for today's practitioner of this traditional martial art.
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 First Rate Book July 10, 2007
H. Asbury
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This type of book is perfect for someone really studying the art of Xing Yi Quan. If you know the base material well, you probably also know some version of the key concepts covered here. There are not enough works like this in English. This book, which is not intended as an introduction to the art in the instructional sense fulfills the needs of practitioners who need to commit to memory the art's key principles. Mr. Groschwitz included the Chinese text as well, which is a big plus for those who can read Chinese a bit. Though I don't always agree with his translation exactly, I still think this book should be on Xing Yi practitioner's bookshelves without exception.
 Not much to read January 31, 2006
Huang Sifu
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is less than 90 pages long, and 17 of them are dedicated to forewards. The "meat" of the book consists of short verses regarding the five Xingyi techniques (pi, quan, beng, pao, and heng), and since both the original Chinese text and the English translations appear on the pages, they fill up twice the space than the actual content needs.
This book might be good to have in your collection if you're already a practitioner of Xingyiquan, but it would probably be of little interest to anyone else.
Excellent resource January 30, 2006
Edgar Glavas (Cakovec, Croatia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This thin book in itself contains enough information for more than a few years' worth of study. Even Xing Yi stylists practicing a non-Hebei branch can benefit from it. However, a beginner will be quite lost as to the meaning of some of the poems and words, so first hand explanation by a qualified teacher is needed.
A book that must be in every Xing Yi stylist's library.
Wonderful! January 17, 2006
Mr. C. J. MacKenzie (London, United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An excellent and facinating document that gives us the chance to see Xing Yi in an authentic form.
The poems and writings are great and beautifully translated.
The drawings, although not photographic quality show clearly the correct stance positions.
We do not get the book in the UK, so I ordered it from the USA, and after showing it to my Xing Yi Sifu I now have to order another copy for myself!
The Classics of Xing Yi Quan August 11, 2005
xingyiquan5 (oakland, ca)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
John Groschwitz has done a great service to the Xing Yi community with his translation of Jin Yun Ting's work. Presented here are the classics of Hebei Xing Yi that define and characterize the style.
In the old days these poems would be memorized by each student and used as their guide for practice. Here in the west many Xing Yi systems were passed on to students who weren't fluent in Chinese, and were unable to recieve the oral tradition along with the physical. With this book we are able to start to fill in those gaps.
Students of Xing Yi will find a lot to ponder within this book. Although it is short, like Xing Yi itself, it is also sweet. Each poem will have information to mull over, test and practice. It's also good to be able to use the material in this book as a basis to talk to Chinese teachers and get a more detailed, personal explanation.
This diving board into the internal workings of Xing Yi Quan will help all Xing Yi players to dig deeper into their tradition and in their personal practice.
-Jess O'Brien
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