Tai Chi Chuan: The Philosophy of Yin and Yang and Its Application

by Douglas Lee

Book Overview

Covers the history and philosophy of tai chi, general principles of movement, solo exercises, push-hands sparring, applications, and tai chi weapons. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089750044X
• ISBN13: 9780897500449
• Release Date: April 1976
• Publisher: Ohara Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Self learning Tai Chi

This is the only one book I know, you can really learn by your self Tai Chi step by step, I've been exersicing it by 30 years. When I begun, in Chile, my country the Tai Chi was unknown. This book made it possible for me to catch the Tai Chi.

Beginner: Good Intro to Tai Chi; Advanced: Good study guide

Mr. Lee's introduction to the underlying philosophy and practice of Tai Chi help provide a very good foundation for the beginner and advanced student alike. This foundation should be applicable regardless of the style of Tai Chi you seek to learn. I've seen such an introduction in only one other text, Wen Shan Huang's _Fundamental's of Tai Chi Ch'uan_. Although I did not use this book to learn the Long Yang form, my teacher, fellow students and I have used it as a study guide in learning the Tai Chi Sword, Tai Chi Broadsword (knife), and the Two person "Eight-Eight". We have other texts, and use this as a good comparison text. Also, though we do not use ranking in our school, Mr. Lee reviews a workable ranking system for the schools that prefer such classification.