T'ai Chi: The "Supreme Ultimate" Exercise for Health, Sport, and Self-Defense

T'ai Chi: The "Supreme Ultimate" Exercise for Health, Sport, and Self-Defense
by Cheng Man-Ch'ing, Robert W. Smith

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Author: Cheng Man-Ch'ing, Robert W. Smith
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-15
ISBN: 0804835934
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

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Book Review: Excellent compliment to an instructor
Summary: 4 Stars

If you're studying Yang style T'ai Chi with an instructor in the Cheng Man-Ch'ing tradition, this is the first book to get. Everything is well illustrated and clearly laid out. The text is good but not great, and T'ai Chi is a discipline that pretty much requires a competent instructor in order to avoid bad habits in the early stages, and the instructor should be able to fill in the conceptual gaps in the text.

T'ai Chi is an outstanding physical discipline and combative art, suitable for anyone who is capable of walking without assistance, and with some modification, for almost anyone with any degree of mobility. No impact, concerned with range of motion and control rather than speed, it can be practiced for a wide range of benefits at any time of life.

It is, however, a combative art, and anyone who tries to learn it or teach it without addressing this side of T'ai Chi will never understand the dynamics of the movements. Some of the movements have multiple combative applications, and some are not obvious. The most extreme example is a technique for breaking a neck concealled within the "ward-off" movements. Punches should be aimed at an imaginary opponent, not flapped through the air, etc in order to gain full benefit of the discipline.

This is a great book for someone starting in a great art!

E.M. Van Court

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Summary of T'ai Chi: The "Supreme Ultimate" Exercise for Health, Sport, and Self-Defense

The Chinese secret for youthfulness, health and long life lies at least partly in T'ai Chi, the ballet-like calisthenics they've practiced for centuries. This rhythmical art stresses slow breathing, balanced and relaxed postures and absolute calmness of mind. The practice itself need take no more than ten minutes a day. This book is a complete step-by-step manual for the beginner that will enable anyone to master the sequence of thirty-seven postures that make up the T'ai Chi solo exercise.

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