Talk:Hsing I Ch'uan

There are many disagreements (even between practictioners) about details of Hsing I, some due to confusion with Taichi terms - others due to differences between the teachings of individual lineages. It is almost impossible to approach the subject, having any knowledge about it at all, from a NPOV. There are no "absolute authorities" either as people or reference works, that can be consulted to resolve a dispute.
 * I've added a note to that effect at the beginning of the article. Fire Star 21:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Further note: this is due partly to the relatively old age of the art.
 * Other contributing factors being cross-training between taiji and xingyi (finding a school that does only xingyi and not taiji is pretty hard), the additions the art made by some masters over the years (and equally, simplifications done in order to make learning easier), and in some cases a partial transmission of the art from teacher to student (This made easier in xingyi through a natural preference of a student for one animal over another). Of course there is also the affect that the wushu institute has had in attempting to standardize forms for competition, and the related politics involved their. --Medains 28 June 2005 11:50 (UTC)