Tai CHI Ball Qigong: For Health and Martial Arts

by David Grantham and Yang Jwing-Ming

Book Overview

Tai chi ball qigong training is an important component of proper tai chi chuan practice

Once kept secret in martial arts societies, Tai Chi Ball training has the potential to help develop internal strength, whole body connections, yielding and neutralizing skills, and promotes abundant qi flow.

For decades, this training was widely unknown. Dr. Yang has taken the original 24 patterns and extended them to 48 patterns in order to expand the health benefits and to target the needs of martial artists.

For martial artists, tai chi ball qigong training can strengthen the torso, condition the muscles, and increase physical power by using the mind to lead the qi. It can be a major training tool to enhance pushing hands ability.

As a health exercise, tai chi ball qigong training will improve movement of the spine, increase energy through various breathing techniques, and aid in moving many joints of your body properly, and at different angles.

"In all my years of teaching, I believe that Tai Chi Ball Qigong is one of the most powerful exercises I have ever seen to rebuild the entire body's health."--Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming

This book includes

History of tai chi ball
Theory of tai chi ball qigong
Tai chi ball warm-ups
Tai chi ball fundamentals
Tai chi ball breathing
Tai chi ball exercises
Tai chi ball partner exercises
Tai chi ball advanced practice

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594391998
• ISBN13: 9781594391996
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"