Hsing I Fist 12 Animals Fists

This videois a demonstration with instruction of the famous Xingyi Twelve (Animal) Shapes (Shi er Xing) twelve short sequences based on movements and Idea of twelve animals. Animals include Dragon, Bear, Horse, Tiger, Swallow, Snake and others with often more than one variation for an animal. This is followed by a combined sequence (Ying Xiong He YanEagle, Bear) and a complete combination of all twelve. Demonstrator, Teacher: Di GuoYong (born 1948) is from LuXian County, HeBei Province. He learned to play Shaolin Chang Chuan and HeBei HsingI Chuan from Zhao Zhong in 1963 and ChuoJiao FanZi Boxing from Wu Bin in 1973. He is a disciple of Zhao Zhong (grandstudent of Li CunYi). In 1975 he learned Chenstyle BaGua Zhang from the famous teacher LiZiMing. He also studied ChuoJiao FanZi Chuan from Wu BinLou. He is now president of the BeiJing WuShu Research Association (HsingI Division) and a national WuShu judge. HsingIi is one of the great boxing forms of China. Based on the theory of the 5 elements