Complete Tai-Chi: The Definitive Guide to Physical and Emotional Self-Improvement
Language: English
Pages: 280
ISBN: 0804818975
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Today people around the world are discovering the benefits of Tai-chi, an ancient Chinese system of exercise based on calm, graceful movements that condition the body from the inside out. With benefits like reduced stress and anxiety, plus improved flexibility and concentration, Tai-chi has become the ultimate form of exercise for relaxing and strengthening both body and spirit.
Master Huang's Complete Tai-chi is the definitive introduction to the Condensed Form of Wu-style Tai-chi, a form that has gained enormous popularity as a healing exercise because it stresses the development of internal energy for self-healing. The 36 postures of this style are beautiful in their simplicity and completely safe, regardless of one's age or physical condition. Included in this book are a detailed guide to the 36 postures (with more than 250 illustrative photographs), a historical overview of Tai-chi, and translations of classic works by Tai-chi masters.
The demands of Tai-chi are small, but the rewards are great. A few minutes each day and a bit of open space are all one needs to find a new path to youthfulness and longevity, and at the same time reach the peak of physical and emotional well-being.
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and Chen Chang-hsing (Yang Lu-chan's teacher) was of the fourteenth generation, it is highly improbable that Chiang Fa was Chen Chang-hsing's teacher. Furthermore, this date also renders it impossible for Wang Tsung-yu who, research now indicates, lived at the end of the eighteenth century, to have passed the art down through two generations of students to Chiang Fa in the middle of the seventeenth century. Pointing out these flaws in an attempt to connect Chang San-feng (either Three Mountain
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principles can hardly be successful. In the classics, the grand masters did not explain their experiences in scientific terms, but through long years of practicing and pondering, their experiences were in accord with the design of the human skeletal framework, the mechanical principles of balance, and the laws of mechanical advantage. Once they had experienced using minimum effort to obtain maximum achievement in Push Hands or martial combat, they knew that their postures and movements were
of the ribs. The area that joins the upper arm with the shoulder girdle is a ball-and-socket joint which permits the movement of the upper arm in all directions. Because the shoulder girdle is movable, it participates in the movement of the arm, either initiating movement or increasing the range of movement. On either side of the shoulder girdle, there are seven muscles which control position and movement. The shoulder girdle is like the handle of a sword , with the fingers serving as the point.