boxing and hsing i practice

[bruce]

there was a boxing gym in boulder next to the club we played so i had to visit. they we just working out and training hard ... i thought it was interesting to watch the line drills the beginners were doing. it reminded me of hsing i. what do you think?

[GrahamB]

If it looks like anything but boxing I think it looks more like Tai Chi done fast than XY

[bruce]

[Wanderingdragon]

Looks alot like boxing to me

[Areios]

yes i think it looks like xing yi. Just with a different punching mechanism.

[fisherman]

I agree with you Bruce. While having a definite boxing look to it, (for obvious reasons) I can see some similarity to some of the Xingyi half stepping drills that we do.

[mrtoes]

Know what you mean. We do a variant on the fire form which is in a straight line with jab-cross with half stepping, hitting from a head guard, I guess there's waist/footwork differences but otherwise pretty darned similar.

Matthew.

[bruce]

Know what you mean. We do a variant on the fire form which is in a straight line with jab-cross with half stepping, hitting from a head guard, I guess there's waist/footwork differences but otherwise pretty darned similar.

Matthew.

one of the things i likes from there line drill (the beginner boys in the ring) was the punch landed with the front foot and the second punch landed with the follow step.

[nianfong]

boxing footwork actually shares a lot of similarity with xingyi and especially kendo. they do a follow step, but keep their back heel up.

[mrtoes]

Yeah, can be done both ways. As you know classical wood form does a forward and follow step for a single strike (jab or cross) but stepping forward with the jab and following with the cross can be very juicy as well!

Anyone got a perspective on heel up vs heel down? The feeling of the two is quite different when I play with it, but haven't done enough boxing to really comment...

Matthew.