Hey all. I posted a contest on the video section at emptyflower with links to 14 videos on the Xing Yi 5 Elements Linking form. I ask people to take a serious look at all of them and pick a favorite one based on the form not the individual performing it. Here is the link:

http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=vids;act ion=display;num=1164589598

This will be fun for many of you and a real good exchange of what the 5 Elements Linking form should look like. This will be a really good learning experience.

Apologies all. EmptyFlower banned me, and so now the thread there is closed as I asked them to delete it. I think the word "contest" confused the administration at EmptyFlower and pretty much tore up the idea and then banned me so I can no longer update the video list there. I reposted it and reworded the whole project from a "contest" to a "contrast comparison analysis". Its not about whose style is better or who is better, it was about which "Xing Yi 5 Elements Linking form" has the most opportunities to execute Jing and technique for practice in the opinions of folks who love Xing Yi. No one would be exactly correct since it is all opinion. Anyways, here is the link to the new thread at Bullshido. Enjoy.

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48441

Lol! Ok, ok. I had to move the discussion yet again!

I would have posted it here, but this seems to be quite over here.

It is now in my own message board where i can moderate negativity and encourage constructive criticism. Bullshido had too many MMA teens who hate kungfu and nobody contributed except for some really pissed off people from emptyflower. I just wanted to update this place. Because some fans from EmptyFlower mentioned this thread as being dead.

The INTERNALISM message boards will enforce a policy of being cool. No moderator, no internet kung fu geek is going to attack or judge an individual's question no matter how much folks disagree with the asking of the question. The message board is for any Internal Martial Artist from any culture around the world. No message board tyrants. I promise.

Here is the link to the 5 Elements Linking Video Analysis Discussion:
http://hiddenpalm.proboards92.com/index.cgi?board=xingyi&action=display&thread=1 164760053

Enjoy,
HiddenPalm
http://hiddenpalm.122mb.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/HiddenPalm

some Xingyi nd Bagua applications

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiVHkKV-Zrk&mode=related&search=

i found the responses from ppl knowing absolutly nothing about the style on bullshido hilarious.

"••••••• fairy twits with their prancy little dances •••• •••• hell mates"

lol. they got so angry.