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Summary: Buy Recommendation
Review: I like Tai Chi Classics. What appealed to me immediately is the straight forward manner in which Master Liao explains chi, jing, li, and how concept relates to each other. I would not say the book was written to teach a student to mechanics of Tai Chi, but instead to be an overview of the essences of chi and jing in the Tai Chi movements. Therefore, one should already have a working knowledge of the Tai Chi Movements. The book perfects the application of the Jing in the Tai Chi movements. One of the most interest statements delivered in the book, states that a practitioner may feel chi but not jing. Meaning the practitioner of Tai Chi may go through the movements of Tai Chi without ever really understanding the full impact of the art. I feel the book focuses on how the practitioner can build Jing, and the author seems to translate this approach in to the Tai Chi Form in the latter portion of the book. Does one read the book to discover amazing stories of physical feats or rather does one read the book to improve understand of what internal energy really mean.
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Summary: A Tai Chi Practioner Handbook
Review: In my view, this books stands as a work of art for the Chinese martial arts practitioner. The author's clear concise and unambiguous exploration and explanation of Tai Chi Chuan serves as a must have reference book. Few books contain so much straightforward information on martial art skill, physics, and history of Tai Chi as this one source. As a Tai Chi practitioner I highly recommend this book to people who are just starting out in Tai Chi and those who have studied the art for years
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Summary: Internal Aspects of Tai Chi Revealed!
Review: The secret of internal martial arts is how to develop fa-chin or discharging force. This book reveals that secret.Most TaiChi books tell you what are the moves and how to do them correctly. But that isn't real TaiChi. Unless you harness the internal power, your movements are going to be empty. Master Liao provides the link that can tremendously advance one's practice in the internal martial arts through his revelation of secret training methods.
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Summary: Internal Aspects of Tai Chi Revealed!
Review: The secret of internal martial arts is how to develop fa-chin or discharging force. This book reveals that secret. Most TaiChi books tell you what are the moves and how to do them correctly. But that isn't real TaiChi. Unless you harness the internal power, your movements are going to be empty. Master Liao provides the link that can tremendously advance one's practice in the internal martial arts through his revelation of secret training methods.
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Summary: A serious starting point for the would be serious student
Review: Waysun Liao is almost certainly one of the great masters of the North American continent, and his work shows this as well as he can. This is a great fundamental text, useful for both students, enthusiasts and researchers. Many serious reviewers may have somehow been rendered unaware of how much ignorance there is even in the so called learned of taichi in this country. Master Waysun does a fantastic "101" way of clearing things up and hopefully encouraging those who are satisfied with being trendy and 'fit' to take up a further level of experience. I had the pleasure of meeting Waysun Liao when studying with Master Greg Chapman and found him to be a most impressive figure. Whatever doubts one might have about Liao's take on Tai Chi can be immediately dispelled after seeing his first opponent set airborne from no touch at all. While a simple work that by it self will offer only groundwork, this book is good for beginners, cynics, contrary martial artists and teachers alike.
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Summary: Good text. Worth a read.
Review: Waysun Liao's knowledge seems to be genuine. He has some valuable insights and ideas. The chapters on the background and history of taiji are somewhat misleading. The author vastly oversimplifies the history of Chinese philosophy and collectively calls Taoist, Confucian, Moist, and Buddhist philosophies "Tai Chi ideals." The section on taiji's martial history takes much the same approach. The author never mentions Chen village and offers only a vague interpretation of taijiquan's history. The most valuable portions of this book are the chapters on qi cultivation and the classics. The final sections offer translations and interpretations of three taiji classics, but to my disappointment the author offered no historical background or context for these classics -- not even a few sentences indicating who the authors were or what their role in taiji history was.
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