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 Untraditional Hsing-I $27.00 I really have to shake my head at some of the reveiews this book has received. People get too caught up in the whole "chi" paradigm and think that everything must use chi-based terminology to explain this art. There is PLENTY out there on the "internal" and chi aspects of these arts, but this is one of the VERY few that actually has some useful information from the point of view of physics and body mechanics. This book also includes a short, but valuable section on the use of Hsing-I combinations in actual combat, which is extremely important but NEVER seen in any book on the subject. The title is a little misleading though. This is simply straightforward traditional Hsing-I, the untraditional part is in how he explains the art. Even though Whitewood's Hsing-I differs from the method I have trained in, this is still a valuable text with much food for thought. |
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