Xing Yi Quan

Xing Yi Quan seems easy to learn and to the observer, graceful, simple and deceptively so! At the same time the student is practicing the light, quick, dancelike movements,He is developing the ability to actualize his intrinsic energy in actions of the hair-trigger quickness and devastating directness. While the Western boxer is apt to be muscle-bound, Chinese masters often give, superficially at least, the impression of frailness. - from Hsing-I by Robert W. Smith