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Excellent read Seeing Beyond the Tai Chi footprint is an excellent read for the tai chi practitioners out there. Sifu Huan presents many interesting ideas & fun stuff to throw into practice. This is one of the only tai chi books that presents visualization which helps give a bit more depth to one's practice. Hopefully Sifu Huan will bless us with more books in the future as noted in the last few pages. David Dupuy, Alphaville, Louisiana - October 19, 2006 Good for beginners I found this book helpful as I started to learn about Tai Chi. It helped me to think in a different way about movement and breathing. I also found the stories about Huan Zhang's father interesting. It is true that the language is a little awkward, but I was able to understand the lessons that Huan is trying to teach. Nancy Hurley, Boston, MA - September 14, 2006 Personal and insightful This short sweet volume by Huan Zhang sets out to capture the essentials of tai chi in a very personal narrative. Along the way the sub text is a gentle rendering of Huan's father, the late renowned Taiqi Master Zhang Lu Ping. Huan in an idiomatic Chinese style gives us sixteen chapters of key tai chi principles. Some are unique renderings of well known classic principles, others offer a new set of insights from Huan and his father. The book addresses not so much the what or why of taiqi but the most important principles of "how." A stimulating reminder of the essentials and more for the advanced student and a good introduction to the taiji way of thinking for serious beginners. Sifu Steve Levinson, Los Angeles, CA - June 13, 2006 Funny and Insightful - April 25, 2006 Huan Zhang's book, Seeing Beyond the Tai Chi Footprint is as delightful as his Tai Chi classes are - charming, funny and insightful. Also... clear, well-organized, and easy to read. I particularly appreciated the stories of the author's father, Master Lu Ping Zhang's early days in China, as well as all the funny analogies. As a new student of Tai Chi, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I will read it again as I continue my practice and believe I will gain new insights from each reading. Both beginners and more advanced students should appreciate this book. Elizerbeth Victor, Arlington, MA Subtle Tai Chi Instruction I found this book very helpful. As I understand the author's approach to tai chi, one should think about applications as: - Matching the opponent's style. - Slightly shifting the opponent's direction to gain leverage. - Using the resulting advantage to do damage. The approach may be very classical, but I don't know of many sources for concrete advise as to how to do this. In particular, I'd never really understood the use of positive/negative coordination in wave hands, nor thought of stringing together a sequence of bows to form a whip. Andrew Schwartz, Boston, MA - February 6, 2006 | |
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