Customer Reviews

Sunrise Tai Chi

5 star:		(34)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This video is at least 4 hours long. I keep finding more every time I watch it, in the teaching and in the DVD extras. Its worth the price for the 'resource center' alone, in the DVD extras section, with magazine articles and interviews with the author, where he discusses his work using these exercises to heal cancer, arthritis, and various other illnesses, with testimonials from his patients.

Aside from that is is simply a joy to watch this master perform his meditation and Tai Chi. He is an excellent teacher.

I agree with the other reviews that this is an amazing DVD, and want to mention that it has incredible animations of the Qi energy in the body, as well as easy to understand diagrams of the the brain, glands, and internal organs while the instructor explains how these internal exercises work.

Also, many of the exercises are taught in three stages, beginner, intermediate, and advanced, and each stretch is held for three minutes, so I doubt many of us will work our way up to the advanced version of the three minute exercise very quickly.

Its a DVD that you can really grow with!

This is an excellent DVD for beginners! The explanations and demonstrations before putting it together are wonderful. The only thing lacking if there is one is that it is extremely slow paced. For beginners it is wonderful, but as you become more intermediate, you outgrow it pretty quickly. I would recommend this DVD to beginners and persons with physical challenges or older persons looking to stay in shape (70+). If you are younger, it is still a good buy, but I would recommend buying with the intermediate and advanced so you may progress without halting to wait for your next DVD.

I have recently been diagnosed with Graves Disease (a Thyroid autoimmune disease) and many books I am reading recommend Tai Chi as a proven help to sufferers.

I find this DVD excellent for beginners, my husband is learning it with me. Just watching it makes you relax!! He takes you through every step very thoroughly and with excellent descriptions of how to achieve and what you will gain, including animations of Qi energy. It is very uncommercialised, I just feel like I am in a room one on one with the instructor, which I really like.

There is just so much content on here it is excellent value and I am sure will be our Tai Chi bible for many years to come. There is also a great links page to his website, where he has many interesting items, including clothing and music, you can purchase.

Highly recommended if you want to learn Tau Chi from a Master properly, not just because it's the latest 'thing to do'!

Have spent the past month evaluating the "Sunrise Tai Chi" DVD by Ramel Rones, and am much impressed with everything from production values to the quality of instruction.

DVD is split into 3 main sections: Demonstration, Instruction, and Workout. "Demonstration" shows Rones going through each of the exercises with a flute & harp playing in the background (with the notable exception of some cool Asian trip-hop beats during a few of the more aerobic exercises -- sadly, I was unable to find the musical credits). "Instruction" has Rones describe the proper execution of each exercise in a highly detailed and specific manner -- he discusses and demonstrates a variety of subtleties that could not be adequately described on the printed page, and this information will be of great value to instructors who wish to teach these movements to others. "Workout" is divided into 20, 40, or 60 minute workouts, with your choice of either traditional flute & harp or piano music in the background.

Ramel Rones is a Master instructor, and this is quite possibly the finest instructional DVD I've hat the privilege to view and practice. Best implemented with a widescreen or projection television (which I do not have) . . . somewhat frustrating on a laptop screen (but fortunately there is a large screen TV with DVD deck at work).

Highly recommended!

Sunrise Tai Chi is an interesting DVD. It is different and not exactly what I expected. Overall it is a great and informative DVD. It provides you with a 20, 40, and 60 minute workout to choose from. With over four hours of instruction and demonstrations you should feel comfortable knowing how to do the exercises. But here in lies my problem with the DVD. That is four hours of instruction and demonstrations without any real organization, other than being divided up into instruction and demonstrations. You can either watch the entire thing or you can select to start watching from a specific exercise but everything is bunched together. There is no "beginners class" that just goes over the exercises in the 20 minute workout, which is where I am sure almost everyone will want to start. Likewise for the 40 and 60 minute workouts.

You can watch the entire thing, learning all the exercises and then go back and start with whichever workout you want. Though a lot of the exercises are not in the 20 minute workout. If this sounds good to you then you should really like this DVD. If however you are more like me in that you would like to be taught a foundation and then build up from that, then you might find this DVD a bit frustrating. This isn't like a Tai Chi class and it certainly makes it difficult for a beginner to get started. You will not be able to get this DVD and start doing the workouts right away. The workouts have little instruction for the exercises, that is what the instructions section is for which you really need to watch to be able to do the workouts properly. If the instruction was grouped together in a way that atleast matched the workouts this would be a really great DVD. The instruction is good, it is just too bad it is not better organized.

I have kept myself in good shape over the years stationary biking, rowing machine,swimming, and occassional weight training. Years ago I earned a brown belt in Kenpo style Karate. Having been diagnosed with diabetes several years ago, I decided to recently add martial arts to my exercise routines. Since I can no longer spar or even go barefoot because of foot nueropathy, I decided on tai chi. There is no shortage of tai chi DVD's but finding good ones is more difficult. The Sunrise Tai Chi with Ramel Jones is definitely the best of the five I tried. The instruction and demonstrations are easily followed. I am looking forward to mastering the exercises and forms in this DVD and continuing with others in the YMAA tai chi series.

I found this to be the one of the best, easiest to learn from. It is very informative and truly helps understand the movements. I go through many Tai Chi DVD learning videos for our martial arts school, and this one is a good one.

This is my first Tai Chi DVD, and after my first try I was amazed and am now addicted to it. I regularly do Yoga but after trying Tai Chi , I'm hooked. This DVD is so relaxing and energizing, and full of great information.

I skimmed through the DVD at first then I watched the whole thing. Mr Rones gives you really great instructions. There is a specific instruction section that lets you understand and try to learn the different techniques associated with Tai Chi. If you are a beginner I suggest you put some time aside and try to watch the entire DVD before you begin. to get instructions and a basic understanding.

The DVD lets you choose your music and I just love watching it because it's very relaxing and soothing. I absolutely am addicted to this and am looking forward to better my Basic Tai Chi skills through this DVD. Can't wait to try it again after work when I get home. I do this any time of the day and I absolutely love it! It helps me relieve all of my stress and tension from work.

I'm definately looking into getting his books and other DVD's as well.

Ramel Rones is great in this DVD. He's obviously expert. He's thorough. He also addresses the senior population (I'm not in that target population yet, but will be I hope!). He passes on some of the tradition and gives a good morning workout that leads up to a relatively simple T'ai Chi solo form. and there are three levels of workout, with two selections of music to accompany through the guided workout, I like the choice of music.

The training segment is thorough and you should be prepared to spend a while going through this part before really attempting the full workout.

The camerawork is good. The video editing is a bit confusing at times (for example: during the shorter workouts, the hip stretch section focuses mainly on the right side, so you have to figure out for yourself how much time to balance it out between the sides, if you want to stay with the agenda of exercises chosen).

The menu navigation tool is quite good, not perfect, but much better than most DVDs of this type.

I'm looking forward to trying other DVD releases from Mr. Rones and the YMAA.