gerard wrote:Body-Mind refinement until the Body is completely open so one can fully understand the Mind and what its exact role is.
So you need to do everything below before you can understand the "mind"?
In the meantime, internal organs must be cleansed and remain in a state of balance; all joints must be opened, tendons stretched and supple; muscles are softened as Spleen is working correctly, creating and distributing the Qi, blood and fluids efficiently (more energy is produced at a lowered energy/food intake).
I don't agree. You can't separate mind and body this way. You understand mind through the body and the body through the mind. There's always a continuous process involving both body and mind, they are inseparable. There's never clear stages or a distinguishable point where you sudden understand everything as a sudden enlightenment.
Focus is on hard work not form let alone fighting others since this kind of work is enormous and it requires a lot of effort, energy and dedication. Grounding, grounding and more grounding; this can't be emphasised good enough.
HJH provides the tools for this type of work and it's up to the student how far they are ready to go.
Any others?
Seems like what other said, that you are mainly interested in neigong. If you want to look into standing practice, you have various xingyi, bagua, taiji and obviously yiquan. If you really want to open up the joints you can look into the Xie Peiqi –> He Jinbao lineage Yin bagua. Drills and forms are also important for coordination and learning how to balance your body while moving.
What I like with HJH is not the exercises he teaches, but the way he teaches them and that he talks a lot, that he really wants his students to understand what they do. He is a good and generous teacher and seems to have a very good knowledge about Chinese medicine and about the human body in general. This is what I would look in a teacher. Too many speak about Yi, qi and shit, but it’s mostly all jibberish, more to confuse or mystify than to actually teach. So what I would look for is a teacher who actually cares about his students and want them to learn. Exercises and tools you'll find scattered all over the place. Just pick what you think you need and practice.