Xing Yi Quan Tu Na Si Ba: The Four Breathing Forms of Master Li Gui Chang

Excellent book with clear photos, insight and guidelines for teachers and students of Li Guichang's very refined and deep Neigong set. Very grateful to Song Zhi Yong and Tom Bisio for making this 'indoor' set available to the general public.Tu Na Si Ba is a very neat and compact set, useful to any martial practitioner, and key to developing the Shen Fa (body method), along with San Ti Shi, in this style of Xing Yi Quan. The set is deceptively simple, but there is much to unpack, so I recommend this as supplement and aid to instruction from a qualified teacher, regardless of level of experience in internal arts, yoga and/or other types of mind/body movement. You must be taught not just follow videos.I have been practicing this set for several years now with my teacher, Martin LaPlatney and, over time, it has made many changes to my body and helped improve the quality of my Taiji and Xing Yi practice. While this set is a great aid for developing internal qualities, it's also a health maintenance set--very useful to those rehabbing from injuries. As a Xing Yi and Taiji instructor, I am very happy to have this manual to share with my students.

[Update: The videos are still a pain to get to and require a donation, and I'd still buy a DVD if it were available. However, I've come to the conclusion that the videos are intended to move that slowly. I realized this when I noticed that the light play on the ripples of the water in the background are at normal speed. It's very subtle, and I probably only caught it because I'm a photographer.]After moving away from my teacher, I continued my practice of Xing Yi Quan on my own. I came to this book from Tom Biso's great book "Xing Yi Quan: Art of Inner Transformation." I really want to add Tu Na Si Ba to my daily practice, but I need to see it— as the book itself recommends. After jumping through hoops for what felt like an hour, I finally got to the online videos only to find that they load and run painfully slow. I need to watch these videos, and I'm willing to buy a DVD if they make one available. I'm giving five stars for the book and one star for the videos. That equates to three stars. Again, just sell a DVD of the videos. I'll buy it!

Great book with details and a link to videos to watch/

This book details information on a central neigong method employed in the style of Xing Yi taught by the late Li Gui Chang and Song Zhi Yong, as taught to Tom Bisio. This method is considered very important to developing the internal aspect of this style, and combines with the San Ti Shi to create the root for high ability in this art. Such information used to be the type of thing you would expect to be only available to disciple level students of the art. While I would say that personal instruction would still be important so that corrections could be made, still the book has great value just describing the practice and explaining where the exercise fits in this style of Xing Yi Quan. I have practiced this, but I have not developed it enough to get many of the benefits available. The book encourages me to go further with this practice. I noticed since trying again, that my qigong had improved in the interim since practicing it before and makes me wonder if I can get over the hump this time...

I echo J.J. Blickstein's observations about this book. I, too, am a student of Martin LaPlatney and have found this work to be an invaluable resource--I've used it as a check before, or as a confirmatory source after, the day's practice. My sincere thanks to Song Zhi Yong, Tom Bisio, and Valerie Ghent for expending the effort to put this primer together.

Great book, with clear detail. You still need a qualified instructor, though.

Mind blowing good! A gem!

scant information on the subject. Didn't meet my expectations.

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