The Five Element Fists of Xingyiquan. Xingyiquan, #1

The five fists of Xingyiquan - explained by an engineer, not a mystic. Pi, Zuan, Beng, Pao, Heng. Split, drill, crush, cannon, cross. This book takes the five foundational fists of Hebei-style Xingyiquan one at a time and asks a single question of each: what is actually producing the power?The answer is never "qi." It's structure, weight, timing, and the tension between positions. Beginning with Santi, the standing posture that contains the whole system, each fist is broken down into what you can feel, test, and correct on the training floor - drawn from more than a decade of real class recordings, not studio poses.
Written by a lifelong practitioner with degrees in electronic physics and photonics, this is the plain-language guide to the five fists the classical manuals never quite gave you. Book One of the Xingyiquan series. Train every day.