Ride the Tiger to the Mountain: Tai Chi for Health

by Martin Lee, Emily Lee, Joan Johnstone

Book Overview

T'ai Chi Ch'uan is an "inner martial art," a set of beautifully slow, continuous movements based on ancient Chinese philosophy and medicine. Here is a practical guide to the twelve most basic T'ai Chi... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201180774
• ISBN13: 9780201180770
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Maybe the only practical how-to for t'ai chi

Eager Westerners scoop up videos and books on t'ai chi hoping to learn this powerful movement form without a real, live teacher. "Ride the Tiger" is one of the few that can help you do just that! Simple, step-by-step, behaviorally specific instructions with photos and drawings are balanced with equally simple questions to self-check one's progress. The story of how the author, a nuclear physicist, was drawn to learn and then teach t'ai chi provides a unique slant on East meets West. His explanations of how it works based on his scientific understandings are especially intriguing. Qualified teachers are becoming more widely available, but in the meantime, this book is a useful tool.