Tai Chi Theory and Martial Power: Advanced Yang Style Tai Chi Chaun (Martial Arts-Internal)
by Yang Jwing-Ming
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Author: Yang Jwing-MingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-11-05
ISBN: 1886969434
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Ymaa Publication Center
Book Reviews of Tai Chi Theory and Martial Power: Advanced Yang Style Tai Chi Chaun (Martial Arts-Internal)
Book Review: Very practical and detailed
Summary: 5 Stars
Like Dr. Yang's other books this is a gold mine of good information. I find the few negative reviews puzzling, since there is plenty of quality information here. No book is perfect, especially on tai chi, but this is an excellent book. I suspect these people have never tried to read the real tai chi classics, which give far less. They are very difficult to understand in that they speak much more in metaphors and vague descriptions that are far more general and less specific than Dr. Yang's book.
Yes, the back leg needs to be bent springlike, as one person says, but Dr. Yang mentions that, and anyway, that's a very basic concept that almost everyone knows anyway. Dr. Yang's book goes beyond the basic principles and gives quite specific instructions on the more advanced ones. As far as good, practical, and detailed advice on many aspects of tai chi energy, power, speed, posture and body mechanics, form practice, martial applications, and so on, this is probably the best I've seen.
As far as actually how to generate fa-jing, or explosive chi power goes, I've never seen a book that does that, ever. Apparently the only way to get it is to either have that secret personally passed on to you or else to learn it from many years of diligent practice of the tai chi form. I suspect that most people who criticize books like this are looking for shortcuts and "secrets" and probably don't have the discipline and diligence to practice the form enough to get even the basic understanding and skills anyway, let alone the more advanced ones. The reality is that there are some things in tai chi that can't really be explained that well in words and simply have to be learned by practicing the form over a period of many years.
I had one specific comment, which is that I found the long section on the many different types and applications of jin energy very practical and useful. I had learned many of these from my teachers and had figured out others on my own from doing the form, but I learned somemore from this chapter.
So overall, another fine book from Dr. Yang that gives far more than any other volume on the subject I've seen up to this time. If there is a better one that lays so much material out so clearly on the subject of tai chi, I'd like to know what it is.
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A must for advanced students, this book is the next level in training for those who have learned the Tai Chi form and begun pushing hands practice.Tai Chi & Qi Gong Books
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