Taijiquan: Chen Taiji 38 Form and Applications (Tuttle Martial Arts)
by Ren Guang Yi
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Author: Ren Guang YiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-10-15
ISBN: 0804835268
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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Book Review: Excellent book on the short form
Summary: 5 Stars
Charles Tuttle has a long tradition of publishing quality martial arts books, and Nishiyama and Brown's Karate, The Open Hand and Foot Fighting, published in 1960, if I remember right, was the first large hardback book I had ever seen on the subject. This book is no different and continues the Tuttle tradition of publishing quality books in the martial arts.
I've studied both Wu and Yang style Tai Chi, but have never had a chance to study the Chen style. There has been increasing interest in the Chen style in recent years, and I wanted to at least learn a little more about it and how it compares with them. While you can't really learn Tai Chi from a book, this book was fine for helping to learn more about the style and how it differs from the two other styles that I know. And if you already know the form, a book like this is useful for reminding you about the details of the postures, or the correct sequence of moves.
Considering it's just under 100 pages, this is a surprisingly solid little book on the Chen style short form. At 38 moves, it includes key postures unique to the Chen style and eliminates the repetitions in the longer form. The author gives a brief history of the origins and history of the Chen family style, attributed to Chen Wang Ting, who reinterpreted general Qi Ji Guang's northern boxing techniques as described in his Canons of Boxing in a more Taoist way. There is also a brief account of the evolution of the Chen style from the Lao Jia or original long form to the Xin Jia or New Frame version of both Xi Lu and Er Lu, emphasizing the development of the unique twining movements characteristic of the style, and pointing out that the modern tendency to exaggerate these twining movements and make them bigger is incorrect.
In addition to the above, there is also a brief explanation of the short form, a list of individual movements broken down into four sections, and a chapter showing nine martial aplications. Finally, there is a description of yin and yang concepts and a short biography of the author (the current grandmaster), a short glossary, and bibliography with a few suggestions for further reading. Overall, another excellent book from Charles Tuttle on one aspect of the Chen style.
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