Hello All.
Am new to the forums. I have only been studying internal arts for a very very short time (3 months ). I study Yang style Taijiquan.
I have an interest in alll the Chinese Internal arts. To this end, I bought some books about the arts. One of the books related to Liuhebafa, aka Water Boxing. The book didn't go in to a great amount of detail (it was only 100 pages or so) about the art in some ways, but it claimed it was the "fourth major internal art". Sorta like being the fifth Beatle lol!!!
Seriously though, the book also mentioned that it had many of the ideas of Taijiquan, Xinyiquan and Baguazhang in its system e.g. the circular power of bagua, the direct power of xingyi etc....
Does anyone have any experience with this art? How "internal" is it? I have seen some clips on Youtube and based on my own inadequate knowledge of internal movement I can't say if it is or isn't. Here are some of the clips anyway:
A Gentleman named Mike Patterson doing partial form w/ application:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN0gqzM4 ... re=related
Master Wei Luan Form
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pmEysrX ... re=related