Hsing-I Chuan 12 Animals; Part 2 Featuring Gerald A. Sharp.
This DVD completes the 12 Animals with applications and forms training for the Fighting Chicken, Falcon, Swallow, Snake, Ta'i (Ostrich), and the Combined Eagle/Bear. This DVD also provides a Daily Practice Companion to practice the forms, and continues to build on the principles of the Five Fists and the Linking Concepts. Applications which emphasize Hsing-I's strikes are coupled with Hsing-I's close range techniques of grappling and throwing. 60 min. 1995.
This series will take you through the Basic Training of Hands and Stances; the Five Fists of Splitting, Drilling, Dursting, Pounding and Crossing; Linking Fours such as: Transformation of the Five Fists, Linking of the Single Fists, and a Hsing-I Animals Power Form; as well as Hsing-I's Push Hands, Hsing-I Meditation for Health and Power, and Hsing-I's Twelve Animals: Dragon, Tiger, Monkey, Horse, Alligator, Fighting Chicken, Falcon, Swallow, Snake, Ta'i (Ostrich), and the Combined Eagle/Bear.
Hsing-I Chuan is an internal martial arts system used to improve health, power and strength. This Five Fists, 12 Animals system was popularized by Jiang Rong Qiao who was a student of both Zhang Zao Dong and Li Cun Yi. Sharp studied the system with Zou Shuxian and also with internal arts Master Cheng Jie Feng.