Simplified Tai Chi Chuan: 24 Postures with Applications & Standard 48 Postures

This revised edition of our best selling beginner Tai Chi Chuan book includes a new and modern easy-to-follow layout. Every tai chi movement is presented in 2-4 large photographs with clear instructions, followed by key points to help you learn properly.

Simplified Tai Chi Chuan 24 Posture is one of today’s most popular tai chi forms. Once learned, it can be performed in only six minutes. If you are learning tai chi in a school, a fitness club, a community or recreation center, or even the local park, this is the tai chi form you are likely to encounter.

The martial arts applications for each posture are shown so you can understand that every movement has a purpose.

Simplified Tai Chi Chuan 48 Posture is a popular tai chi form practiced by those who want a longer, more challenging sequence. Once learned, it can be performed in only twelve minutes. The forty-eight posture form is often the next form a student studies after learning the twenty-four posture form.

Here’s what is inside this book:

• Theory to help you understand tai chi’s important tai chi concepts

• Warm up exercises for safe and proper tai chi practice

• Fundamentals so your tai chi movements will be easy and natural

• Foot diagrams so you will know what direction to face

• The complete Simplified Tai Chi Chuan 24 Posture form, step-by-step

• Martial applications for each movement of the 24 posture form

• The complete Simplified Tai Chi Chuan 48 Posture form, step-by-step

No matter your age, tai chi chuan is a wonderful way to improve your health and well-being.

© 2014 YMAA Publication Center (Ebook): 9781594392795

Publicatiedatum

Ebook: 1 april 2014