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Thread: Are You a Hsing-I Master or Whippersnapper?

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    Are You a Hsing-I Master or Whippersnapper?

    Sailors are known for being well rooted, with their sea-legs. When they hit, they do so with their whole body.

    To understand the mechanics of a sailing, one must know about the sail’s mast rigging, or masting. This determines the angle and focus, of the propelling wind force; and must be proportionate to the boat and sea conditions.

    Masting must be balanced by the keel, or in internal terms: the moving root of the sailboat. A master that has not taken this into account, will have his boat rigging top-heavy, and a fish tailing boat, ready for capsize. With this setup the boat is whipped around out of control by the wind.

    When one uses a full length bull whip, one can knock another off their feet. If the whip handler is not firmly rooted, they will throw themselves when they crack the whip; a whippersnapper.

    Another analogy of the term whippersnapper, is someone who has a lot of flair and noise for show only.

    From the old salt school.

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    Very Interesting!!!

    Thank you for sharing that!

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    Self Testing

    Using a skim board (boogie board), can show if your moving root is too high,
    a snow skiing parrellel stop will do it also.

    Further exercises detailed in book:
    Axe Hand; Hsing-i & Internal Strength Workout;
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    what is keel-hauling?
    "My Gung-Fu may not be Your Gung-Fu.
    Gwok-Si, Gwok-Faht"

    "I will not be part of the generation
    that killed Kung-Fu."

    ....step.

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    Keel Hauling

    Keel-hauling was made famous by Captain Bligh of the movie Mutiny on the Bounty.

    Used as preventative maintenance, it will clean your hull of barnacles and seaweed, so it has less resistance, and glides through the water faster. This is done better when the boat is taken out of the water in dry-dock, but keel-hauling can be done with the boat in the water.

    As a punishment, it is usually fatal.

    It involves binding a person to a rope or chain, in the middle. He is thrown overboard at the bow, and two groups of sailors one on the starboard, and the other the port side; drag him and the rope the length of the boat underwater aft and he comes up past the stern.

    Not used on propeller driven boats, at least while they are running
    Last edited by Foiling Fist; 04-30-2011 at 10:58 PM. Reason: chain added

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    i'm a master, of course. but what does semen have to do with any of it?

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    anyone else noticed most youtube vids of xing yi their san ti stance footing doesnt look correct?

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    Yes but many practitioners have modified the stances, not realizing that they did until they or others have seen it on you tube.

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    i've got an update. last lesson i learned the first two animal forms tiger and dragon and i've been training them daily.

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