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Besides training for several years in Taiwan under the Hsing-i and Pa-kua masters Hung I-hsiang and his brother Hung I-mien, Mr. Smith was also fortunate enough to be allowed to study under Wang Shu-chin, Kuo Feng-ch'ih, Yuan Tao, and other masters. His training path is very clearly outlined in his Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods (Tokyo, 1974) and other books. Some twenty years later, Mr. Pittman, one of Mr. Smith's senior students, went to Taiwan seeking the old masters, but found that many had died. In Taipei, however, be came across a still hardy Hung I-mien, who invited him to share his home as a live-in student. After absorbing Hung's Hsing-i and Pa-kua, he traveled south to Taichung to practice with the sons of the late Ch'en P'an-ling— Yuan-ch'ao and Yun-ch'ing—and the senior students of the late Wang Shu-chin.

From these experiences, the basic forms of these two master teachers as taught to the authors were assimilated and consolidated. This is the first time that they have been taught to the West in such minute detail. We hope that Western students will benefit from this clear exposition of teachings that were once only passed on to initiates deemed worthy of learning the styles and being entrusted with their transmission.