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Teach Yourself Tai Chi (Teach Yourself (NTC))

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At last! Help in simple language to introduce and instruct beginners in this lovely and healthful form of gentle exercise.Robert Parry understands how to take the confusing element out of tai chi and put it in the reach of anyone who is serious about the form. Step by step instructions are easily understood due to the author's simplfied illustrations and text. I recommend this book to everyone who is looking for an informative,comprehensive, easy to understand guide book for tai chi.

This small manual has not many pretencies. Its goal is to teach the Yang short form and this is exactly what it does. The author's teaching method is smart and effective. Contrary to many other TaiChi manuals, it clearly explains how to distribute the weight among the feet and how to match the breathing to the movements. An excellent complement to TaiChi actual training.

At last! Help in simple language to introduce and instruct beginners in this lovely and healthful form of gentle exercise.Robert Parry understands how to take the confusing element out of tai chi and put it in the reach of anyone who is serious about the form. Step by step instructions are easily understood due to the author's simplfied illustrations and text. I recommend this book to everyone who is looking for an informative,comprehensive, easy to understand guide book for tai chi.

I am taking Tai Chi, but could not find a book that really helped me follow my form. This book does that and really helps me along outside of class. Other books that I tried were too hard to follow in terms of telling you your footpatterns along with hands and body movement.

This is not a fancy tai chi book with lots of color pictures of the form, but it does have a lot of good information. The tai chi form used in the book is the Yang Short Form. Each step of the form is shown in a black and white pencil sketch with a good description of each move. Of value to me was the accompanying diagram that shows foot placement and relative weight that is placed on each foot as well as text that tells how to properly breath for each movement.

The latter part of the book describes the importance and history of each move that gives good background to the form. The last section includes the series of all the form element line drawings in sequence to give you a better idea of the flow of the form.

Went to China for the first time last year. I am the kind of personality that enjoys 'sunrise to sunset' travel and in china everyone does tai chi around sunrise.

In the beautiful great Wall park in hong Kong four lovely Chinese women invited me for a couple of tai chi moves accompied by haunting music. Knowing I was a tourist they took my picture with my camera.

There seemed to be some basic transitional moves everyone used - old and Young - looked relaxed, flexible, and in slow motion.

Well when I got back - i bought a bunch of cd, video, books and highly recommended materials plus free you Tobe help- all lost me quickly but also touched on what I wanted.

My advice - down load the free first chapters of this book -because it reminds me of the movements of those four women in the park:

1. Rubbing palms and hands
2. Opposites - yin and Yang - of palms, front and back, top and bottom
3. Shifting weight
4. Imagine large ball between palms
5. Breath out ball gets smaller - breath in and ball gets larger
6. Improve blood flow by coordinated movement - which is as slow as possible

I am visual so most of the above is very good for me - download the first chapter free - and if you like it - get this book before any other

I have the kindle version on my driod xoom tablet.

I bought this book after 1) giving up on others, 2) trying to watch DVDs, and 3) blurry hours on U-Tube. Nothing compares. Small, paperback, clearly written, well diagrammed, and easy to learn (after a couple of months of dog-eared determination). Now the book is worn thin, but I still carry it around w/ me for rereads and just going thru the moves in my mind. Tai Chi is now it's a twice daily exercise for me and well worth the *constant* practice and improvement.

Not sure who Robert Parry is, but it would be even better if you did a quick video. If you do, please let me know. [...].

Thx

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