Customer Reviews

Wudang Qigong: China's Wudang Mountain Daoist Breath Exercises

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This book has detailed written information about the forms which will satisfy most qigong fans. The photographs with each form are of such poor quality and too small that is is difficult to use this book as a method of practice. It would have been better had the author dropped the original Chinese text (left-hand page)
and put a series of clearer photos so that the form could be practised. There are no available videos for this book and therefore should not be regarded as a practise text for people new to this style.

I would give this book three stars, but don't want to damage the reputation of its author. This is an excellent book of precious information in the Wudang Mountain Qigong tradition. For this, the book deserves ten stars. The instructions are very precise. The photos, however, are worse than miserable, and for that reason the book deserves one star, maybe 0. The author needs to respect his material enough to take command and improve the production quality. When compared to the graphics in the book Qigong Empowerment by Master Shou-Yu Liang & Wen-Ching Wu, the trashy graphics here are an insult to serious students of qigong. The book therefore needs serious editing in its graphics. In a nutshell, the production quality is unworthy of the material. The book needs to be redesigned.

This book is very good, and fairly easy to understand if you have some martial arts training. I have studied chin na and san da with professor liu and must admit he is very good. This is one of his few books that has both the english and chinese in it, and the actual material is taught in the Kansas City area of the states when he gets a chance to visit from China. END