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You are now in the san-t'i ("three essentials") posture, the basic Hsing-i posture, which generates both the FIVE FISTS and the TWELVE ANIMALS (Fig. 16). Your head should press up as if balancing a book, your elbows and shoulders should be held down, and your knees should be well bent, thus lowering your hips, forming a crease where your lower abdomen and thighs meet (the inguinal area). Your weight should be distributed so that the rear leg supports 60% of it. Your left arm should be extended, the elbow slightly bent and the fingertips at eyebrow level. Your left hand should be open and stretched to form the "tiger mouth" as it strikes forward. Your open right hand should be held palm down, but the fingers pointed upward to protect the groin. Finally, your eyes look at your left index finger, gazing past it, focusing on a point ahead.

THE FIVE FISTS

1. SPLITTING FIST (P'i ch'uan)

The SPLITTING FIST moves directly ahead (Fig. 17). Continuing from san-t'i, as you shift your weight rearward, retract both of your hands into fists downward as if pulling on a rope (Fig. 18). Take a small step forward with your left foot, toed out at 45° and DRILL forward with both fists as you shift your weight onto your left foot. Your left fist leads your right fist, DRILLING, and ends, palm up, at eyebrow level. Your right fist touches your left forearm between the wrist and the elbow (Fig. 19).