I have recently discovered a rare branch of Hsing-I while reading an old Chinese Hsing-I-Liu-Ho-Chuan book. It mentioned that there's actually a Shaolin branch of hsing-I called "Xing-I-Ba" (roughly trnaslated, it means "heart and Mind Handle" And most of the forms have been lost. I wonder if any of you has ever heard of it

There is film of the Shaolin Xing Yi on Volume 5, Part one of the "China's Living Treasures" video series produced by One Hand Video. The film is of an old monk at the Shaolin temple doing some of the Xing Yi forms.

Yes Tim, I think you are absolutely right. And from what I have heard, originally there are 12 forms and now there are only 3 remaining.

I have read that the founder of Yiquan, Wang Xiangzhai, studied xinyiba in Shaolin temple in about 1920, while travelling around China searching after greatest masters of martial arts.

Somewhere in web xingyiquan (should mean xinyiba???) was stated to be "the secret art of Shaolin".

Do you have any information about lineage of xingyiba ("Shaolin xingyiquan"? Is there more notices about it in this book?

If the book that started this whole discussion is the one put out by the People's Sports Press entitled Xin Yi Men Mi Ji by Li Xin-min....I am not sure I would consider that book any great source of historical information. Please note what I am not saying, I am not saying there is no connection between xingyi and shaolin, nor am I saying that book is bad overall, it is just not a good xingyi history book.

Brian,

Could you point out what you consider are the weak points of the historical section in the book? Just curious.

Jarek

Can anyone verify if Shaolin Hsing yi really is a lost art or just how much of it really remains?

Ivan