What is the significance of practicing twelve forms of Xingyiquan? Is five elements boxing enough?
What five elements boxing practiced was skill, a vigorous training method and the foundation of Xingyiquan. Twelve-shaped boxing imitates the fighting style of twelve animals in nature, taking its form and meaning, and practicing the fighting skills and postures.
Animals in the Twelve Shapes fly in the sky, swim in the water, run on the ground and jump on trees, including all kinds of animals in nature, so it is a relatively comprehensive pictographic boxing.
Five elements boxing and the Twelve-Shaped Boxing are interdependent and complementary, so it is incomplete to practice only five elements boxing or the Twelve-Shaped Boxing.
There is a saying, practice five behaviors and use twelve shapes. But they are all relative. The strength in the twelve forms is all five elements, and the five elements are well practiced. These twelve shapes are just going through the motions. Practicing the five elements is actually the same as going to actual combat. The cross is like a lame crutch. You need crutches to get well and walk as soon as possible, but if you can't throw them away, you will be lame forever. The five elements are like the lame themselves. When you get well, you will feel slow at first and always fall, but once you recover, it will be like this again. But the twelve shapes are of great benefit to the exercise of body shape and reaction. If you start practicing at an early age, it will have an extraordinary effect on increasing bones and muscles. For example, the swallow shape needs to be drilled from the lower level. The real usage of form and meaning is eight characters!
I don't know the Twelve Shapes yet, but I know how to draw tigers, dragons and snakes. I can draw simple strokes by five elements boxing.
Because I haven't really practiced Xingyiquan, I occasionally use five elements boxing's strokes, and I have practiced tiger pounce, snake shape and dragon shape, and I feel something is wrong.
When practicing five elements boxing, I don't feel any strength, especially the boxing, punching and footwork can't be coordinated. I don't know what the problem is.
Later, I watched a video, saying that Xingyiquan exerts its strength, and the hind foot not only supports 70% of the body's weight, but more importantly, it needs a conductive force from the hind heel to the legs, waist, shoulders and elbows, that is, the punched fist, and the force point is on the hind foot.
After reading this, I practiced boxing again, which was a bit interesting. Some books say that the power of boxing comes from Dadun point, which is the big toe. Then, I practice boxing with my big toe and punch at the same time. I feel that the power of boxing is actually on my feet, so I can grasp the ground with my big toe on my hind foot and punch my front foot from my waist before I can feel the benefits of Xingyiquan.
First of all, practicing five elements boxing is definitely not enough. If there were enough, there wouldn't be twelve shapes.
Secondly, five elements boxing is a female boxing, and the more she practices, the more refined she becomes. Five behaviors are the mother, and twelve shapes are used. The more you practice the Twelve Shapes, the more agile you become. If you pursue martial arts, you must practice the Twelve Shapes.
Finally, only by practicing the five elements and twelve forms, can we realize the thousand turns into one form. It's like painting. If you don't see all the mountains, how can you hide all the famous mountains and rivers in your heart, and how can you write like a god?
This is divided into two situations. One is specialized in Xingyiquan, starting with the Twelve Shapes, and then learning five elements boxing after meeting the requirements. Moreover, it is necessary to fully master the academic system of Xingyiquan, such as the techniques of generating grams with five elements, connecting beads with five elements, miscellaneous fighting, Xingyiquan, Xingyiquan and Xingyiquan theory.
On the other hand, because Xingyiquan is one of the boxing types with the largest number of practitioners, and a large part of them are concurrent practitioners, it is difficult to master the whole of Xingyiquan as a specialized practitioner, so many people can only choose the most representative or most suitable technical part for their own practice. For example, if you are a boxing major, you will generally learn from five elements boxing, but the Twelve Shapes is very difficult, so many people can't adapt.
The five elements are the main training methods, and the twelve forms are the main training methods [bow]
Twelve shapes are the changed five elements. Xingyiquan is based on the five elements, and the five elements are based on split boxing. Many old masters are finely dismantled, one horizontal and one vertical is simple and practical. The twelve shapes are more about posture, and the gas field in boxing can be played out by taking pictures and taking meanings. There is no point in getting out of the twelve shapes.
There is a saying that you can only make kung fu if you have the shape. The more twelve shapes, the better the kung fu. It is said that Shang Yunxiang is a tiger, and Xue Dian is a monkey or a dragon. I can't remember this a little. In my understanding, shape, shape and meaning make it a kind of boxing, and not everyone can learn the twelve shapes. As long as you practice your own boxing, you can get the artistic conception of boxing and embody it in your body. Personal opinion!
Five-shaped boxing is an exercise of seeking strength, touching force and exerting force, and it is the mother boxing of Xingyi Boxing. Twelve-shaped boxing imitates the fighting skills of animals, such as the spirit of the monkey, the fierceness of the tiger, the cleverness of the swallow, and the cross of the bear, and exercises to enhance people's quick response ability and hitting power.
Xingyiquan five elements boxing is a female boxing, which is a general boxing frame for developing skills. Practiced five elements boxing, Xingyiquan is 80% practiced. If you continue to cultivate the five elements in the future, it will not be easy to make progress. It's hard to raise one percent.
Practicing twelve lines is to make the skill gained by practicing five elements more delicate and complete. It is easy to make greater progress.