Applied Tai Chi Chuan

Author(s)

• Sutton, Nigel

Bibliographic Information

Applied Tai Chi Chuan

Nigel Sutton

A & C Black, 1991

Other Title

太極拳

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The author presents the art of tai chi chuan in its holistic entirety as well as addressing the controversy over the historical development of what is arguably the most practised style in the West, Chen Man Ching's tai chi chuan.

Table of Contents

• Defining the art
• Cheng Man Ching tai chi chuan
• tai chi chuan for health
• the tai chi chuan learning process
• lessons of the form
• the practice of pushing hands
• more on pushing hands
• the patterns of pushing hands
• the application game
• San Shou
• tai chi chuan fighting training
• the weapons of tai chi chuan
• from empty hands to weapons and back
• the tai chi chuan root
• tai chi chuan and jing
• the mind in tai chi chuan (1)
• the mind in tai chi chuan (2)
• more on the mind
• tai chi chuan and time
• discipline
• spirituality
• the tai chi chuan family
• tai chi chuan and softness
• the secrets of tai chi chuan
• the internal power of tai chi chuan
• the tai chi symbol
• the 13 aspects of tai chi chuan
• the "classics"
• the five animals of tai chi chuan
• the teaching of tai chi chuan
• teachers.

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Details

• NCID: BA42654492
• ISBN:
  • 0713634502
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 128 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GV505
  • DC20 : 796.8155