Originally from Holland, Maarten (Maahrtun) Sebastiaan Franks Spijker arrived in China in 2005 at 18 years of age to study Gongfu. After struggling to find authentic traditional arts for many years (but studying Sanda and exploring the country in the meantime), he eventually became a disciple of Zou Jianhua (邹建华), a Baguazhang and Xinyiliuhequan (amongst other arts) master.
I am hoping that you might be willing to clarify questions that I have about the five elements Xingyi jian techniques. I learned a simple sparring drill that cycles through the five elements, but when I learned it I did not realize that it came from XY (I only discovered that through the power of internet videos!). While the techniques for fire (pao/exploding - rising), earth (heng/crossing - side to side), and metal (pi/splitting - falling) seem fairly straightforward, both water (zuan/drilling) and wood (beng/crushing) are performed as thrusts (to the shoulder and stomach respectively). I do not understand what qualities differentiate these two techniques. Could you explain them to me? The following video is the form that I learned, and is done fairly closely to how I practice it (with minor differences since I practice TJ rather than XY):
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