Hsing-I Fist Five 5 Elements Staff

The Staff technique of Hsing-I Fist is shown here with the separate five elements demonstrated ( Chopping, Crushing, Drilling, Exploding and Crossing) and then linked together in a nice weapons form. Shifu Di also breaks down the moves and shows the form in easy to learn sections. Different actions and uses of the Staff are shown all with a distinctive Hsing-I Fist flavor. Demonstrator/Teacher: Di Guo-Yong (born 1948) is from LuXian County, HeBei Province. He learned to play Shaolin Chang Chuan and HeBei Hsing-I 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 Chen-style 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 (Hsing-I Division) and a national WuShu judge. Hsing-Ii is one of the great boxing forms of China. Based on the theory of the 5 elements it takes fundamental movements and