XingYi Training Secret To Develop FAST & STRONG Force! 

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This master needs his own RU-vid channel.

I had an argument with some friends that a pitcher throwing a baseball has the same body mechanics as throwing a punch. Everyone thought i was nuts. Master Dimitri here proved my point. A pitcher gathers the energy and transfers to the ball. The puncher gathers the energy and transfers into the punch.

Dude is FAST! You can hear his movements in the Mic! Just insanely powerful! His theory of the bow being more powerful than the arrow is Awesome!

I learned a lot on how to move in all martial arts movements. Yes he is a natural teacher. Please make him a regular teacher.

my summary of the 3-module practice: 1. 12:14 "throw ball" with wide stance, to train good basic posture, and the opening & closing dynamic 2. 15:44 similar as above, but with narrowing stance, to experience the wave of power through the body 3. 20:05 drawing the yinyang symbol (similar to "silk-wrapping" exercise in Taiji), to train the habit of engaging the whole body for every movement

Wow, probably the best demo and explanation of traditional martial arts principles I’ve ever seen on YT This guy is dangerous, I don’t even need to see him spar or something, the quality of movements shows it all Thank you for sharing!

Great Vid! Master XingYi is amazing, and reminds me of my childhood sensei back home so much! here's how I was taught these concepts, for native English speakers this may help: -Explosivity is key to both speed and power. -Relaxation is key to Explosivity, 'your muscles can't flex if they're already flexed' -The hips (lower core) are the Crossroads that connect everything on the Body, all power will pass through them and cascade outward like travelers on a road. -Power comes from the ground, the striker is like a spring, squeezed toward the hips, then released, pushing the target away from the ground with violent expansion.

Interesting demo. Dmitri obviously has limited English skills but can still convey most of the principles or ideas well enough. He's very quick and powerful, having given some reference to the dan tien as a source of the power that then travels through fascia, not muscle, to reach the limbs and hands. The way we talk about it in Tai Chi Chuan, one of the other main internal martial arts, is to compress and to coil and uncoil from the grounded legs. He says twist and untwist, very similar description. The other thing he mentions is to relax but still be energetic, which is the state of Sung or release. Techniques should usually have an explosive or snapping quality, which most people have heard of as fajin, an explosive release of energy. And following the other person's energy to immediately respond and control them, as he suggests.

This guy is legit. Some of the principles of movement he described reminded me of when I studied for a brief 14 months between 1993 and 1994 learning Xingyiquan and Qigong from Gramdmaster Wai Lun Choi (we called him Master Choi). You need more videos with this instructor. Xingyiquan has a very unique power generation method. The style is known to produce fighters. This video is good stuff and I will definitely pass it on to my buddies in the martial arts world. I must dust off my old “Five Elements” form.

Dimitri teaches principles without withheldings secrets of HsinYi, so much valuable knowledge…… Superb teaching experiences!!!!!

OMG this is top tier! I admire Dmitri so much!

The historical metaphor of a bow is widely used in Chinese martial arts to describe a type of power generation, but in the case of Xing Yi (and others) I have found that a more apt metaphor is that of a [coil] spring - like the old-school shock absorbers on a car. You're "pressing down" on the spring such that when you want to strike, you are releasing all of the pent-up energy at once in a single moment. Or if you want to extend the bow metaphor, a more apt one may be a Roman ballista, where even more potential energy is generated via torsion (twisting of a rope around a central axis). Interestingly enough, those old ballistae used "large animal tendons" to store the energy, because they were elastic enough to withstand the constant twisting and releasing. The idea is that you are generating tension in order to accumulate power that can then be released. In physics it would be described as the accumulation of potential energy in order to release kinetic energy. But how that energy is generated and directed can vary quite a bit depending upon the technique and philosophy of the art. Choy Li Fut, for example, has several strikes which work more like swinging a heavy ball at the end of a chain than the type of strikes being shown in this video - you aren't holding tension so much as you are maintaining a position/flow which allows you to continually swing the ball over and over again. When it comes to visualization and understanding, a good metaphor can be invaluable!

Love the xing yi content. I'd love to see more. I got inspired to go find some guys in the area that practice it, and pick it up again.

Loved the fluidity of the forms and how he was able to combine it all with such energy and speed and did it in a understanding way. Great vid! ❤

Thank You so much for the class! this is GOLD material. thankyou again _/\_

This is amazing stuff! Ya'll need to feature him much more!

I am a Jeet Kune Do Teacher, but, from this man, i would like to learn this Art.

This guy gets it. He gets it better than he can teach it. I'm used to the opposite 😂. I wish I was in a better position, I could show you some exercises to help develop internal power. Unfortunately, Im too unhealthy to be taken seriously.

More! More! Master Dimitri is really cool.

I like when he asks for a strike he doesn't say what kind. He lets the attacker choose yet when he responds it is like he knew exactly what was coming beforehand. Also, seeing how this art uses body mechanics is a demonstration of the philosophy of knowing your body. To use your mechanics you need awareness of your body.

I like his analogies for biomechanics to relatable sports or tools

This is what I was missing last time this gentleman was on, this is Xing yi!

Very valuable information!! I would definitely want to see more in depth videos like this!!! Xsing yi chuan is a very powerful martial art!

This is great, thanks Kevin for sharing this. I can see why XingiYi, Taiji Chuan, Bagua and Qigong are sometimes mentioned together. The importance of not rigidly focussing on a target is key one. It’s easy to tighten when one starts thinking of a target rather than using one’s body and awareness to develop power and speed.

Could you thank him, he just shared the secrets! thank you very much.

This is a great video especially the end great stuff definitely reminds me of my king fu days. This makes me want to get back into it.

Absolutely amazing!!

I would love to see a Xingi series with Dimitri!

Excellent. Thank you, gentlemen. Much appreciated.

I remember my Hsing I lessons from master Kenny Gong in Chinatown back in mid 70's. His power was amazing!! Being 19 years old then I was unable to wrap my head around the concept of relaxing. To full of youth and vigor. After 8 months I switched to Fu Jow Pai Shaolin. Guess I needed that 'impact' style fighting training. Who knew I passed up on a true internal style.

Guys what would help you understand this better is basic physics. Recall drawing vector arrows? Every force or weight or magnitude has a direction right, and for every force there's an equal opposite force, newton's law. There's center of mass, bw + gravity and ground reaction force, there's tensional and rotational force via muscles, bones and ligaments. So imagine all these different types of forces and the many ways your body can generate it and contract and expand. Like when he demonstrates you should expand upper going upwards and bottom going downwards while shifting the whole body forward, imagine thst with the vector arrows. In boxing, we say power comes from the ground up, or that we should generate power with our lower body. It's this act of bodyweight and gravity onto the floor, and then when you activate some muscle into it such as a pivot or muscles involve in jumping, you aid the ground reaction force propelling you in the opposite direction thus expansion of your force. Let's take a punch for example: in a traditional boxing stance with center of gravity felt (what I believe they're really talking about when they mention the 3 points about the spine - you can anchor your force low, mid or high depending on if you're looking to plant a shot or be light on your feet and float around, etc. this is the body weight thats acting with gravity that you need to feel and manipulate as needed - what you're manipulating is the acceleration of it - thats what he meant by being in constsnt motion you can slow it or speed it up and use the generated force to your purpose). To throw a right hand cross, you pivot the back foot with a hard dig into the ground (the old pivot like "putting out a cigarette" advice), this activates that ground reaction force so the harder the pivot the stronger - so again this would be a vector arrow being drawn down towards the ground followed instantaneously by a vector arrow up. This up arrow or force is what you'll be transferring via the muscles, ligaments and bone structure throughout your body to your target with correct technique of course. That is foot pivot, hips pivot, torso pivots, shoulders, arms/elbows, wrist and finally the forces travels out your knuckles into the target - the vector arrow that shoots upwards. If you can imagine all this like a connecting chain reaction and literally think about how this force travels it helps. Imagining vector arrows also helps because it's this split in directional forces that causes the "eruption" or explosiomln of power that he's trying to explain. A strength exercise that helps you perform this better and understand this would be a single arm dumbell split jerk (look it up). In this exercise you drop the legs into stance aggressively while pressing your arms up agressively as well. I'd like to add, know how to activate upper and lower body to produce both forces is the difference between a proper punch and an arm punch.

Great insights and explanations! Thank you very much!!!

I'll pay gold to study with him. He's a straight killer. Deadly fast. Seem Wing Chun with wide stance.

🤔 essentially using the power of "Circle Energy" & "Coiling Energy". Nice💯

Brilliant episodes .. would love to see more of Dimitri’s HsingI .. you also said you’d put his link details in the description box ?

sonic boom hands Dimitri Shifu back for more! love it! the cultivation and application of dantien power was really great info to ruminate on and incorporate into my own training.

Excellent! Thanks for the presentation.

Great work Kevin! 👏

That was amazing to watch. Im going to start practicing drawing tai chi symbols like that 😮

Really like this guy Dimitri Nogay:... he has a great energy...

He gives you Xing Yi tips, you give him tips on starting his own RU-vid Channel. win-win !!

Did you get tht feeling like "man, this dude could kill me"? He looks super lethal. Real internal power! 🌊

Thanks for giving xing yi quan so much time.neijiaquan are complex in general lol

Loved this one. Maybe your guest can present a Pa Kua talk?

Internal power comes from the legs (or the ground up.) That's all there is to it. No need for complicated bullshit. That's what I learned from two people I knew that trained with Lee Jun Fan.

Amazing content you guys.

Another awesome video! Very impressed with your content this month!

15:30 that might be a nice banner in front of a martial art academy: "it's easy after ten thousand times".

"If your stomach is weak, you'll never be fast"

Great! Thank you for sharing!🙏🏼

Thanks for the video! He is a good and true martial artist!

would love to see one with Dimitri and Seth

I am a Senior citizen I would. Like to be able to defend myself and my wife.I’m I too old to learn self Defense.

Very good instruction from this master. much appreciated. Please try to interview Grandmaster Jiang YuShan who teaches also very well. Stay safe everyone 🙏🏽

I loved this internal video on Xing Yi. Now I'm just waiting on an Aunkai video on internal power.

Sensei Seth needs a taste of this action on his channel

All the internal power starts with the san ti shi pose training he mentioned earlier. It takes really really really long to digest, but it will become really powerful over time.

I dont practice gung fu but my my observation it is about continual movement flowing from one to the the next the body is in constant state of motion and can explode in any direction and continue to do so its like fast flowing water. Either the body is still but coiled and waiting like a snake or it is rapidly flowing from one movement to the next from every direction, even when the body is still there is internal energy flowing around the body waiting to be unleashed.

Trained Xingyi and Bagua for long enough to say- legit. When it comes to power generation it's all about daily practice of rudiments not the fancy forms (Though they have their use / place).

My master said, "You stop moving, you stop moving, you are dead," Mind body and spirit.

Great job great teacher whoa nice 👍

This guy is amazing. I want to train w him.

Glad to see more real internal gongfu getting some attention.

its like the speed of a sneeze.

Kevin Lee is so likeable! Awesome content also! 👌🏾🙏🏻

His stance and movement reminds me of Sensei Rick Hotton (Shotokan Karate). Deep and grounded, yet movement is flowing and powerful. Gliding (not stomping), relaxed body like Bamboo/reeds, strikes like a pinball. 8 have seen Those who get too stuck on stances "correctness" become as stiff and "dead" like my Shotokan Karate colleagues who don't change after 30-40 years of their same "hard" approach.

Great video. Everything he teaches is pretty similar to what shotokan karate teaches.

Very important and unique information thank you Amituofo 🙏

Kevin you should try to touch base with Master Ken Fish. He is incredibly knowledgeable about Hsing-Yi and would be a fascinating person to have on. Trained a little bit with him I'm the late 80s. He's out of Gaithersburg Maryland and is also a chiropractor and knows traditional Chinese medicine as well.

Very skilled teacher!

Stepping and sliding causes your whole body to be the weapon when striking. Real Combat Traing like this and other Styles work off this same dynamic concept. For those of you who are new to this type of training remember when we were young we used to skip along the ground. It's the same basic concepts of Physics moving your Center or Core foward and or on an Angle all at once.

I’ve been studying Uechi Ryu for a long time, and Dimitri knowledge of an internal system is immense. Could you tell me where hisdojo is? if possible I would like to study with him

ITF Taekwondo forms have similar, arms make cross infront of chest and elbow close the body before blocking or attack, doing squize and walking system similar than karate even technics same form with karate.

In xing yi you first learn santi stance holding that to develop the leg strength to explode forward off that back leg. Then you get into fist postures of the five elements to develop the whole body power in xing yi.

I see a little bit of systema essence with the open/closed technique and the snap of the forward strikes.

@kevinleeblog the answer to your question about how to train it is to train full body relaxation to consolidate your mass and then use intent to focus that mass where you want it to go. Thanks for sharing; great video!

His shout sounds like Akuma/Gouki from SF whenever he punches haha -- I'd be afraid

Another Great video !

interesting lesson! 2:29 - Don't forget, Boxing is actually over 2000 years old! Images, from ancient Greece and Rome (there are other countries too), show many of the same moves we still use today :) You could even say 'the clinch', as where it transitions into wrestling. Sorry, its a bugbear of mine, when people eroniously think Boxing is a younger martial art than these styles. Often, because of cultural hangups. Its a costly, fundermental mistake ;)

Dmitri is good from what you have shown us thanks Kevin and Mike. Also Kevin probably doesn't realize this but the woo woo internal masters are now pulled into this channel now lol. Great job! So we all know who they are and we can stay away from them.😂😂

Thank you for these videos on Tachichuan, Xingyi and hopefully, Baguazhang. I dont do F/B or IG but do you know where Mr. Dimitri Nogay teaches? My obliged. Be well.

'If your stomach is weak you will never be fast.' Ok

Absolutely amazing thank you. Kia ora

Nice moves and great philosophies

Kevin, plant that back foot.

Im happy traditional internal martial arts are being explored and demonstrated without the culture and mysticism attatched to them. Even the word internal gets debated about what it means. Maybe its a generational thing. Its a martial art, plain and simple. A physical method, trained with awareness and intention, to give a result. If it works, it works, and thats that.

Amazing the way he can generate power.👍

very nice guy to teach so generously and amiably. 10k times is important though😂👍🏻👍🏻

Just train normal the five elements, don't be afraid to mix it up one element with another in transfer like in boxing, shadowbox and pressure test yourself with others.

I got a practice javelin off Amazon and i throw it with both sides to develop power generation from the whole body and condensing in the shoulder.

When practicing striking you should break up every technique into sections and focus on improving on each individual movement to reach the maximum potential of speed and power. When a weak point is identified you should then devise a strength training program to correct it then repeat the process as your strength training may have resulted in a new weak point.

Dude is deadly!

Quick twitch. Kinetic chain activation. All the same stuff. You do the same kind of exercises where you're isolating one little sub-movement (especially the first movement in a chain) when you're doing anything that involves explosive movement. When I was playing football we'd do these kinds of exercises all the time both for football specific skills and for speed/power in general. You can hear that same little popping sound that you hear with his movement when you're watching a MLB player practice his swing or when you watch an NFL defensive back do footwork drills. Key principle for all martial arts or really anything athletic.

Will you be showcasing Bagua Zhang as well? Seeing as you’ve done TaiChi Quan & now XingYi Quan, it would be fitting to do so.

Kevin Lee, Very interesting and informative video! Thank you very, very much! I wished you let the master explain the temporal relationship between the fist, and the two feet though. In particular, when do the fist and feet move, does the fist land together with the front foot, or before, or after? When does the rear foot move?

If I understand, which I probably do not, the Master was talking about unifying intent through the whole body in your motion, all your muscles, joints and mass shifting together through each movement from the intent to attack or defend all the way through your body moves without stiffness shifting your weight and releasing that tension explosively through relaxed muscles which act like uncoiling whips created explosive and fast extension. And um... there is Chi or killing intent in there too but I don't fully grasp that. Is that close?

This is a real Master!!!

Structured strength and flow

A real master…. A rare one…. Thank you sir for sharing this what is his name?