the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

My book, Dragon Body, Tiger Spirit is now available to order through mushinmartialculture.com
This is the result of many, many years of study, practice, research and writing and I am confident this is the first work of its kind available in English. 388 pages of text with very few images, it is packed with information on the art of Xingyi Quan.

On order - would it be useful to post the table of contents?

Looking forward to reading it!

Thanks Bob!

The TOC is in the product page (scroll through the images) although it doesnt show how much content is in each section. For example, in the Twelve Animals Poems section, there are more than one poem for each animal from differing traditions. Then of course there is commentary for each of those as well.

Got it! Didn't see the arrow on the side (initially looking at the site from my phone) Looks great!

Congrats on the book finally coming out Byron, sure it will become one of the reference books for XYQ practice, must have been a real labour of love!

Very interesting piece indeed. I read it as late as today. Hit Byron up for a book people, it's not to be missed!

A true work of scholarship - commentaries are outstanding.

I recently got my copy. It is an amazing book. An excellent reference textbook regarding the classic Xing Yi manuals. It is hard to get decent translations of these texts in English let alone meaningful commentry. Thank you for all your work.

I'm going through it right now... about halfway through.

This clearly is a seminal work on Xingyiquan (Hubei style is the stand out)

This is the going to be the equivalent McCarthy's Bubushi, in the Karate do community... McCarthy's work is on every serious karate-ka book shelf

It seems that it would be an excellent body of knowledge for current practitioners!
It was/is a popular saying saying in 'Old China' as my former teacher Dr Shi Cun Wu (Kang Tai Tai Chi} used it as his school motto back in the day

Can't wait to get my hands on it

Order Confirmed
Order Numbers:

#00275
#00276

I just caught up with the posts. Thanks everyone for the words and I am really glad you are enjoying the book!

Just wanted to chime in and say how much I like the book. I'm not a XYQ practitioner (I'm Taiji and Bagua), but the content is completely relevant to other IMA. It is interesting to really see how a lot of TJQ theory is lifted from XYQ.

Highly likely common ancestry with bajiquan - take santishi - take rear foot turn from 45 degrees to 90 degrees then lengthen stance and turn front foot in slightly say 20 degrees or so and you have our baji's line stance of half horse half bow used in all our forms and single moving postures (only exception is xiao baji)

So this book is a real gift for deepening one's insights into many of the "internal" forms and systems

Hi Everyone

The book is now available on Amazon, including eBook version. So, if you are a regular amazon customer, you get those benefits and the books are in north america, so you will get them quickly

Paperback
https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Body-Tige ... 9925800307

Hard Cover
https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Body-Tige ... 9925800315

eBook
https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Body-Tige ... B0CBQQH4TW