James McMeil - HSING-I CHUAN: The Practice of Heart and Mind Boxing

James W. McNeil has for over fifty years been learning, living and teaching the inner mysteries and secrets of the traditional, internal kung-fu arts. During history, such knowledge had normally been reserved for the elite few within the closed circles of the oriental Taoist societies. Until James McNeil came on the scene it was unheard of for any outsider, let alone a white American, to be accepted as a student by the great martial art masters of China and Taiwan. James McNeil has had the rare privilege to study with such greats as Master Hsu Hong-Chi, The Man With the Magic Hands (Hsing-I & healing arts, Taoist sexual techniques), Master Chin Chen-Yen (Tzu Men-Chuan the rare and deadly art of Poison Fingers), Hsu Ting-Ming (Chinese psychic healing), Master Pan Wing-Chow (original Chen style Tai-Chi) and perhaps the greatest of them all, the legendary, Grand Master Chiao Chang-Hung (Little Nine Heaven Kung-fu, Shih Shui, Ba-Kua, advanced Taoist sexual techniques and mediation).

While his masters were alive James McNeil would go to Taiwan every year where they would teach him personally in the internal healing arts, but most of all Master Hsu and Mr Huang taught him personally for four long and intense years, training him in Taoist Lovemaking also known as the Taoist sexual techniques. Through continuous practicing and training hard he was handed down lineage of this method of practice. This honour is only handed down from Master to Student and one per generation. After Master Hsus, unexpected death in 1983 James McNeil was excepted as the first and only American student of the Honorable Master Chiao Chang-Hung.

Honorable Grand Master Chiao was known as a living legend in martial arts for his remarkable skills and abilities and his foresight. Grand Master Chiao Chang-Hung taught James McNeil the oldest Taoist system known today, named Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao Kung-fu, along with Ba-Kua, and advanced Taoist sexual energy circulation for health, longevity and mediation, until his death in 2001.

An important aspect of the internal arts is the cultivation and manipulation of sexual energy for health, longevity and of course extraordinary pleasure. Since 1985 James McNeil has been sharing his wealth of knowledge on this subject with groups of people all over North America, Europe and China helping them to achieve superior sexual fulfillment and to treat sexual dysfunctions with simple, natural methods.

Master James McNeil and his work have been featured in articles and covers of magazines such as Inside Kung-Fu, Inside Karate, Masters & Styles, Chi Master, Black Belt, Empty Vessel, Martial Arts Masters, Internal Arts and Orange Coast Magazine, to mention a few, in addition to many local magazines, newspaper articles and foreign publications in England, Sweden, Poland, China and Italy. He has appeared as guest speaker for American Institute of Hypnotherapy conventions, World Research Foundation and Long Beach State University. McNeil has also taught at South Baylo College of Oriental Medicine, and John Bastyr Naturopathic College. He has appeared several times on television in the United States and Taiwan and has produced more than twenty DVDs and books about martial arts and sexual techniques. His informal and entertaining style is always well received and he has a knack for making almost anyone feel comfortable in an awkward situation. The multitude letters of gratitude and the great respect accorded him by his students attest to his skill and popularity as a teacher.

James McNeil is the director and founder of the Little Nine Heaven International Internal Kung-Fu Association. Students have travelled from all over, including every American state, England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Poland, Canada, Russia, China, Japan, Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia, South Africa and many other countries, to come and learn from him. In more recent years he has travelled the world, aspiring to achieve his goal in keeping a promise made to his teachers to keep their arts alive. He has visited his students, helping them continue their training and to pass on his knowledge, unselfishly, to the next generation.

On New Years Eve 1999, Grand Master Chiao Chang-Hung, in line with Little Nine Heaven tradition, officially passed on to his student James W. McNeil the title of Gate Keeper of the Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao System. This honour established him as the next (34th Generation) lineage holder of the Xiao Jiu Tian Wu Tao, otherwise known as Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao.

It was the lifelong wish of Grand Master Chiao to spread the knowledge of the Little Nine Heaven Wu Tao system across the world and in fulfilment of this wish his student, James W. McNeil, has sought to make this wish a reality. Alongside teaching many students around the world this rare and ancient Taoist system, James W. McNeil achieved his own personal goal of returning the system back to its home in China where its knowledge was thought to have been lost for many decades.