Yang Short Form: A beginners guide to Taiji Chuan
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Yang Short Form: A beginners guide to Taiji Chuan is a comprehensive training guide for all students of Taiji who are serious about mastering the art of Taiji. It is unique in that it details each of the forty four postures that make up the complete Yang Style Short Form, and it does so in a way that the student can experience the smallest nuance of each movement, from the opening sequence to the closing posture.
This practical, user-friendly book features 200 pages of photographs, with descriptions, and matches the pace of the breath with these. It enables the student to focus on the moment-by-moment detail of each movement and experience the balance and the flow of Qi. In this book you will learn:
- How to perform each move in the Yang Style Short Form
- How to breathe correctly during your practice
- How the Tan Tien drives all movement, opening the meridians so that the universal llife force can flow through you
- How to position your body in a manner that balances and strengthens you
Addenbrooke, Caroline Elizabeth: - Caroline has spent most of her life in corporate business whilst pursuing her passion as a writer. She has practiced Taiji with Sifu Leo for over 20 years, so when the opportunity to collaborate in a book on Taiji arose, she took up the challenge. This is the first book of a planned series on the different Taiji forms.
Ming, Leo Low: - Leo Ming is a dedicated exponent of the martial arts. He has been trained in and taught Goju ryu and Goju Kai karate (3rd dan), and is an internationally recognized Goju instructor. He also trains and instructs the Ryu Kyu Kobujutsu system (5th dan) and teaches the Yang, Chen and Wu styles of Taiji as well as Qigong. Other arts Leo is skilled in include judo, kali, knife fighting technique, boxing and grappling and Muay Thai. Over the last forty four years, Leo has studied with world renowned masters: Gogen Yamaguchi (the cat) 10th dan; Goshi, Yamaguchi (Japan); Tino Saberino (Australia); Sensei Chinnen (Japan); Tadashi Nakamura (USA); Hirokatzu Kanazawa (Japan); Tetsuhiro Hokama (Okinawa); Jose Figueroa (USA); Sifu's Duan Yu Chang (Taipei); Hsuing Wei (Taipei); Hanshi Kisho Inowe (Japan); Hiroshi Akimine (Okinawa); and most recently with Sensei Darin Yee 10th dan (Boston), Bao Sen Liang (Toronto), and Grandmaster Jesse Tsao.
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