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Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan | 
 enlarge | Author: Fu Zhongwen
Creator: Louis Swaim
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 323063
Media: Paperback
Pages: 264
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1583941525
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7148
EAN: 9781583941522
Publication Date: May 9, 2006
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Product Description
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.
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 Great Yang style tai chi book for everyone September 18, 2008
Sifu John Hanson (boston, MA)
I have been playing tai chi for twenty years and it is great to have a translation of this work that is so close to the original Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan.
Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan - Long Form : Unleash the Power Within
Completing the line August 28, 2008
Hans-Joerg Guenther (Dresden)
It is not really a text book to study taiji in sense of a modern book. But it is a good summary of its predecessors. It collects some missing translations, sums up older books, adds details and so on. Not a required reading but a standard part in each Taijiquan Collection in your book shelf esp if you are interested in the Yang family style.
Good fundamentals, Good Basic Form August 11, 2008
AE
This book provides a rather detailed look at an earlier Yang Long Form than is often taught today - some practice points during specific postures have been discarded in more modern forms in Yang Style, and it was good to review and decide for myself which points to include. The diagrams can be a bit confusing sometimes, and the movements are not as explicit as I would prefer - but in a way, that's a good thing - figure it out for yourself based upon the fundamental principles and decide what feels right to you.
I would recommend any practitioner not to use this book alone to study Taijiquan, but it is a very helpful reference (I've studied Taijiquan for 5 years.)
 Great reference book! April 1, 2007
R. Brown
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book to serious practitioners. I use it diligently. Even though it's a publicized 'health' version of the Yang style form, the book serves as a repeated reference for years to come.
NOTE - Must be used in conjunction with lessons!
It's a thick read, complex, and detailed, so go at it with the mindset of looking up the posture you're working on, reading up on that posture, and getting maybe one or two things out of the text. Practice for a few months, go back and reread the same posture and you'll pick up a couple more things. Wash, rinse, repeat. This is what makes it an incredible book with great depth.
The negatives of this book are that it could use more photos of in between movements, more footwork diagrams, and definitely application, but there's a companion book by the same author covering that information - The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan
RECOMMENDED - a good guide for the intermediate practitioner January 10, 2007
Another Bookworm
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a translation of Fu's step-by-step description of the Yang style Tai Chi form as it was taught to him. Each technique is described in detail, along with illustrations and notes for the student. The ONLY problem I have with this book is that instead of presenting the material in a linear fashion as Fu's original, the reader is required to flip back and forth when referring to material already presented (so I docked one star for this cheapness/ laziness). There is also a brief overview of push hands, and what I believe to be a more faithful translation of the Tai Chi Classics - more closely capturing the poetic beauty of the original Chinese.
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