Disclaimer: This is not traditional Hsing-Yi Chuan. Sometimes, you must freestyle and let loose outside the box. This is me at 49, rusty, and having had not practiced outside on imbalanced soil in a long while. As per the I-Ching, how do you find stillness, in the midst of change or chaos? It's not perfection, I seek, but of balance and flow. Perfection is when one no longer seeks and allows to unravel who they really are to themselves, versus who they perceive themselves to be reflected back onto others. So, this is Hsing-Yi snake, one of a 12 animal system. Hsing-Yi is defined as "shape of the heart-mind." Not just the heart mind connection, but shape, intent (yi), or also embodiment as in form. How does one align mind, body, soul? Well, Hsing-Yi is the attributed kung fu ascribing to this journey of self. I never have a problem showing myself when rusty. I also want to also demonstrate that 49 is simply a number. I am rusty the same as if I was in my 20s. I will continue to post freestyle or traditional hsing-yi forms or qigong, as I progress. For me, practicing on a camera with no help, makes me feel boxed in. Lol! So, this is my new form, to continue to record every once in a while. Stay tuned friends. Oh, I felt the need to add this. It is common for many to say that I am dancing and that this may not be real fighting. I get that, plus please know that any videos cannot prove one way or the other, imo. My journey in the fighting art of hsing-yi began in 1989. My Sifu "Talim" or "T" in Paterson, NJ had me fighting boxers and streetfighters to anyone willing to, in the park. Supervised by him, of course. No gloves, no gear. Except common non spoken courtesy of going light in the face, most of the time. I really had no choice, btw, lol! It was part of my training. I have tested my fighting for personal and spiritual gain and knowledge, with both the will to win and to lose. I have cross trained with other styles of "hard" kung fu practitioners with the knowing that this is how I will learn what works and what doesn't. When something didn't work, I didn't discard that technique. I simply humbled myself and kept training and kept applying myself with that particular technique in future sparring or fighting sessions, per se. No, I wasn't aware of MMA in the 90's lol! Believe you me, I would have tested myself and evolved both ground fighting and anti-ground fighting against a real cage fighter. I had tested myself with sifu's from other lineages with the highest regard, humbly speaking. Part of me always felt I could beat them, the other part always asked them, "don't hurt me." Lmao!!! The art of losing is kung fu, imo. In my early twenties, I was a NJ licensed Bail bondsman and an actual bounty hunter for several years. Oh, I definitely fought in the hood and around the projects and trained to arrest and apprehend fugitives without trying to harm them or myself, the same. I went by the name of "Panther," in my old stomping grounds of Paterson. Most know of the movie "Lean On Me." Morgan Freeman playing the high school principal, Joe "Batman" Clark. That was my high school. Word!!! Lol.. But, for me, the art of "hurting" someone in self-defense in such a way, so that perhaps they can be my student in the fighting arts student someday, was and still is my walk. Hopefully this made sense. Train gracefully, friends. :)