Monday, May 7, 2018

Jin Yun Ting: A 3rd Corroboration of the key secret of Yi Quan: Dragon and Tiger and right-left polarity qi harmonization

As I just posted - I checked all the youtube vids and none panned out on this core fundamental principle of the Santi Shi stance!

It boggles the mind that the key secret of Daoist alchemy training did not get "translated" into Western martial arts training - except for only three mentions that I can now find.

Jin Yun Ting gets listed in this google book preview in a prominent teacher lineage

The Xingyi Boxing Manual Edited by Jin Yun Ting

The Xingyi Boxing Manual Edited by Jin Yun Ting
So here is his training manual

"The Xingyi Boxing Manual is a classic Chinese Martial Arts manual produced in the 1930’s by Jin Yunting; a long time practitioner of Xingyi who learned from some of the greatest Xingyi masters who ever lived........The explanation of the Five Fists is really the blow by blow of the five forms, how to perform the forms with their requirements using drawings and photos. I am not a fan of reproducing forms via pictures in books. But this is a classic manual produced in the 1930’s for mass consumption. I also believe that the intention was to help the Chinese people by providing a way to exercise, not teaching Xingyi Quan for fighting. This book is a classic and should be in the library of any serious Xingyi Quan practitioner or Internal Martial Arts player."

   and here is one of his lineages in the West 

 These together are called the six harmonies.
The left hand harmonizes with the right foot;
the left elbow harmonizes with the right knee;
the left shoulder harmonizes with the right hip,
and conversely so on the right side.
So here is the crucial point - again this never gets mentions (we'll this is only the third time I can see reference to it - or specifically the 2nd time. the first is the main teacher just saying "dragon and tiger qi") So a student of Jin Yun Ting:

 Cao Lian Fang became famous in Shanghai as a young man when he worked as a security guard with his Xing Yi Quan teacher Jin Yun Ting. They got into a fight with a group of gangsters and managed to beat them all while unarmed. Apparently, it was fairly big news at the time. Mr. Cao went to Taiwan after the war. He was well known in martial arts circles in Taiwan but shunned publicity. He taught until he was very old. I've no idea how long Mr. Cao studied with the Yangs, or what their relationship was.
 John Groschwitz is another one, of the Tang Shou Tao Association.

Bruce Frantzis connected to the lineage
Bruce is teaching the Hsing-I of Liu Hung Chieh in this class, his teacher was Li Yunshan a contemporary of Sun Lu Tangs, and Liu himself met and trained with Sun Lu Tang as well as Shang Yun Xiang, who's student Jin Yun Ting was also a mentor to Liu. So he was lucky to meet and practice with a big group of top teachers during a very unusual era in history before the war.
Wang Xiangzhai, quoted in Ken Cohen, founder of Yi Quan, also qigong master - standing practice secret of dragon and tiger

 

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