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Long Life, Good Health Through T'ai Chi Ch'uan

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This book is a wonderful guide to Tai-Chi Chuan. I have read this book, along with her husband's book, for both of her Tai-Chi courses at SFSU. This is a great book to carry with you, even if you are not enrolled in any of her courses or her outside classes at her studio. You really do develop long life and good health through this beautiful exercise. Simmone is a great teacher through words and action.

An excellent guide to a particular school/style of Tai Chi, helpful to those that follow the Shao-Lin Chuan style or want to learn it. (This style is followed by many in the San Francisco Bay Area where Kuo and other followers taught and are teaching.) The guide is extremely precise and detailed, difficult to follow if you are standing next to the book trying to copy each movement, but the equally detailed pictures are a great help in learning to get it right. Having done this type of Tai Chi for over two years now, I still consult this guide frequently to check on moves I'm uncertain about.

Okay, I haven't yet actually read this book, just browsed it at Cody's in Berkeley. I am a beginner, studying Tai Chi with Simmone at San Francisco State University and she is a dynamic teacher-fun yet strict, philosophical yet irreverent. This book tells about her husband's practice and a little about his life. It also has lots of pictures of Simmone! Hee hee!

(I give it three stars if you're a student of Simmone's)