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Xingyi: MVX Player

LOL a guy wrote on the listing page of my (withdrawn) book RADICAL XINGYI ENERGETICS, as below:

kindle version again please

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2020

please bring back the kindle version. have no desire to spend 600 bucks for the paperback, but would love to be able to read through this again. this was one of the best books on the energetics of the internal martial arts I have ever read.

The guy noticed that, although last year there were still copies available ranging in price from $600 to about $800, now there are none for sale at any price. LOL!

Anyway, enough kidding around. Yes, that book is gone for good, even I don't have any more copies. There won't be any more. (You could probably find it on one or more pirate sites that deliberately rob and cheat authors, if that's how you roll.) But fear not! I'm now pondering doing a whole new 'Radical Xingyi Energetics' (probably have to retitle it). It will be a combination of the following elements, the best of the following but totally reworked and integrated as never before:

• Radical Xingyi Energetics (some key material from original book)
• Various of my Vimeo and Youtube clips on pieces of Xingyi (material to be put in book form)
• Lots of my scattered short-form Xingyi blog posts from TC-X blog (this blog archives)
• INFUSION graphical training manual, Xingyi section (reworked, expanded, integrated)
• Further unseen teachings from the handwritten manual
• More notes on my personal experience with Xingyi training and development: how to put it all together into the perfect Xingyi strike. 

All the above stitched together seamlessly instead of all helter-skelter (or never before shown at all) as it is right now. 

I do ask myself: why? Why bother? I don't really need the book sales, and believe me of any martial arts topic an author could take up, a book about Xingyi is just about the most guaranteed to end up with like a 2 million or so Amazon sales rank, total drug on the market. Bleh. Why go to a lot of trouble just to end up there? 

And yet... somebody's gotta do it. I really would like to leave this topic behind. But I can't because just the plain experience of practicing energy-centric Xingyi is so phenomenally amazing. It really is. Words can't say it. But I still have to try. Xingyi is truly weird. Even I, even now, am still BLOWN AWAY every time I practice it by how incredible just the actual in-the-moment practice experience is. It's like nothing else on earth. Yes, there are a million ways to cultivate internal energy (I should know, it feels like I've deeply and personal explored at least 888,999 or so of them!) And yet of all of them, well ZMQ37 is probably the most profound in some sense, but Xingyi IS THE MOST FUCKING RADICAL OF THEM ALL. How the power propagates through your whole body, from legs to striking hand to dantian is just toooo tricking cool for school!

And especially so in that it is wrapped in such a totally deceptive, even off putting, outer shell of bland, boring, barely effective, hardly street-real outer techniques and tactics. It's as though designed to steer people away, like a ball of solid 24K pure gold pasted over with a thin layer of mud. People would much rather have a mud ball painted gold. But I can't be too hard on people. First of all, I frankly would not have believed it myself. When I started this practice over in Asia as a teen, yes I was intrigued but I HAD NO IDEA, really. A part of was actually always skeptical. I mean, does it make sense? How can just a bunch of slight awkward walking punch techniques have any real connection to deep, profound, transformative, authentic nei gong? It's just walking around flapping your arms! Part of me thought like that, though I must say being around my teacher always blew away doubts in those moments, but overall... aaah. How can it be? 

And yet it is. Some fucking genius figured this out, don't write me about it, I don't even really care who it was or how it happened. And then there's the other paradox that, on one hand Xingyi isn't actually all that hard to begin to touch the inner profundity, and yet... in a way it's SUPER HARD to get near there, but not because the art is really so difficult to grok the real inner essence of, no it's more that we get in our own way. People are sometimes attracted by the martial mythology of Xingyi, but going into it with that kind of combative mindset pretty much guarantees that you have no chance to penetrate its real profundity. Simply because in trying to prove to yourself that yes, this IS a combative, functional art, you'll tense your upper body, physically. You just will. And that will permanently shut the door to you. That drains off 99% of interested parties right at the starting line. You want to justify your interest in it, to yourself or to your inner judge. You want it to be badass, so you get tense. You can't empty yourself. Thus you are doing something, but whatever you're doing will never lead to actual Xingyi with is basically all energy lightly wrapped in some 'guiding configurations'. What an Art! 

And yet it seems the more popular Xingyi gets, on the net or whatever, the more misleading material appears. You can tell right away: if the strike 'wags' at the end (in an attempt to display supposed fajing), it's not the actual Xingyi. Something my teacher drilled into me repeatedly, even when (back then) there was zero chance of me understanding the point. But now I totally do.

I cannot guarantee that even if you do begin to access the actual Xingyi energetic experience that it will do what you envision or fantasize beyond the momentary doing of it. You may be thinking of martial glory in ring or octagon, or maybe you hope to live to be 200 like ancient Taoists, or maybe you just want physical fitness or something. All these peripheral things. All of these goals will block you, not in any exotic way but just by distraction and tension. I can't guarantee any of these results. The greatness of Xingyi is just in the doing of it, IT'S BEYOND FREAKY. Yuh gotta buhlieve me!! 

LMAO! Actually I don't care if you believe me or not. What does it matter? It doesn't. So why even do a final wrap-up book putting it all together? Honestly I don't know. But someone's gotta do it! (Just kidding, not really)

But just for posterity I'll try to put together a description of what it's like to reach what I call 'MVX' or "Minimal Viable Xingyi'. What the fuck does that mean? Well, in hi tech we often use the phrase "MVP" or "Minimal Viable Product" meaning something that does just the least possible but conveys the essential idea of a software service, then you beef it up basically forever over time.

There really is a MVX practice experience for Xingyi, a state of energetic connection and function in each of the standard moves that means you've minimally integrated all the energy and physical pieces. That's NOT the finish line! That's the STARTING LINE! But I will try to provide a complete, personal, and credible account of exactly what that is. It will be really interesting to all my Xingyi fans out there! Yeah, BOTH of you!

ROTFLMAO!!

Hopefully by early next year, 2022, if not before. Watch for it on Amazon!