Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan

Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan

Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan

Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan

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Overview

Your go-to illustrated guide to the practices, history, and philosophy of the popular Yang style of taijiquan
 
Fu Zhongwen's classic guide offers the best documentation available of the Yang style of taijiquan. The superbly detailed form instructions and historic line art drawings are based on Fu’s many years as a disciple of Yang Chengfu, taijiquan’s legendary founder. Also included are concise descriptions of fixed-step, moving-step, and da lu push hands practices. Additional commentary by translator Louis Swaim provides key insight into the text’s philosophical language and imagery, further elucidating the art’s cultural and historical foundations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583946886
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 12/04/2012
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
File size: 13 MB
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About the Author

Louis Swaim lives and practices in Oakland, California. He has also translated an earlier taijiquan manual, Yang Chengfu: The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan (North Atlantic Books, 2005). He received his master’s degree in Chinese history, Mandarin, and Classical Chinese at U.C. Berkeley, and did additional language study at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies. He has been a taijiquan practitioner for over thirty years.
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