I have posted here youtube vids of lots of different masters of hsing yi performing the linking form and maybe some elements. I am hoping they will bring up a fun discussion. I will also include some videos of people that are not usually called masters.

wang shu jins "top" student

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atmbBKzwkzo

wang shu jin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVg6De9Rk0Q

Zhang Jun Feng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVVDHU3Nyxw&feature=related

Monk Bing(who has some crazy 5 basic fists, I love how he just stops and turns around haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L01OIVWlOE&feature=related

hung yi hsiang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIjaz5nckG4

Bruce Kumar Frantzis(I have his doc. video now, and it shows his hsing yi much better)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAAtQvccP30

Shaking style, haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNFaj2WImkU&feature=related

sifu rudy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasjXH-yoNc

I dont know his name, haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZ3xn-UmjI

There are more, but lets start with that.

Here are some of my thoughts. Going down the list........ Wang Shu Jin's student is an interesting case in that because he practices in such a soft and flowing manner, power is not immediately evident. If you watch old footage of wang shu jin doing the fists, he practices this way as well but it looks powerful because of his size, haha. What I will say about him is that the movements all seem balanced and technically sound.

As for wang shu jin himself, well we all know he rocks, haha. Anybody who breaks people's spine by bouncing them off his belly has to be doing something right, haha. Interestingly enough, the fists he shows here are different from the ones he showed my master.

As for Zhang Jun Feng.... hmm. I have to say this, it is interesting to watch. His Pi Chuans are crazy looking haha. They use very wide stances in that video which is an interesting change from the, more common, small and high stances used in most schools.

Monk Bing... now he is interesting. A few of his fists are completely different from any ive seen anywhere else. His tsuan chuans are done using mouse stepping and his heng chuans are very interesting. He seems to have good control over his movement and from viewing other footage of him in a documentary, he seems to know his ••••. I love how when he finishes a line, he just stands up, turns around, and starts again, haha. For wearing such "traditional" clothing, he practices very untraditional, haha.

Hung Yi hsiang is a pretty cool cat. If you guys have ever watched that bbc documentary with him in it, he was pretty cool. Gosh hes big, haha. His individual fists are interesting. Each fist is broken apart into three parts and there is a pause at each. No real showing of "explosive energy." His technique looks sound.

Ill write about the others later, haha. I bore of writing. I am probably just bringing up old topics, but I thought I would try to get something started.