Everyone knows about the power striking style called Xingyiquan or Form and Will Boxing from China. The famous Xingyiquan form “Zha Shir Chui” or Mixed Fist is an expert level form combining both the Five Elements and 12 Animals. As part of our Xingyiquan Instructor training course, we include this form as one of our advanced or expert level forms, Zha Shir Chui from the Wong Jackman lineage. Zha Shir Chui is 60 moves long and contains some repetitions of key sequences. This means the total number of different movements is much lower. The repetitions are great for training and flow powerfully. Zha Shir Chui feels strong to practice. Unlike many Xingyiquan forms Zha Shir Chui has many retreating steps that serve as a defense while we lure the opponent into our counterattack.
Learning Zha Shir Chui in a single three-hour seminar is an incredibly rapid pace and hard workout. Everyone was sore for the next few days! But also elated to have such a cool new form to practice!