Description
Book SynopsisTraditionally shrouded in mystery and taught only to the closest students, the secrets of Taijiquan push-hands and fighting technique from the Chen style are revealed in this book.
Master Wang Fengming, an eleventh generation practitioner of Chen-style Taijiquan, provides detailed information about the famous internal fighting techniques and reveals inside knowledge essential to the remarkable results achieved by the Chinese masters. The book features:
- effective ways of cultivating Taiji internal power
- variety of joint-locking techniques and counter techniques
- 13 postures of Taiji explained
- leg work, including stances and kicking techniques
- unique silk-reeling exercises
- rarely revealed vital point striking
- 7 styles of push-hands training
- 20 kinds of Taiji energy explained and demonstrated.
This comprehensive book is a major contribution to the literature on push-hands techniques in the West.
Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Theory of Taijiquan Push-Hands and Fighting Technique. 3. Main Points of Taijiquan Push-Hands and Fighting Technique. 4. Silk-Reeling Exercises for All Parts of the Body. 5. Exercises of Taiji Neigong. 6. The Thirteen Postures of Taijiquan. 7. Seven Training Methods for Taiji Push-Hands and Fighting Technique. 8. Essence of Taiji Energies. 9. Seizing and Joint Locking Techniques and Counter Techniques. 10. Leg Techniques. 11. Vital Point Striking. 12. Anecdotes of Grandmasters.
