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Laddar... There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and His T'ai Chi Chuan (1991)av Wolfe Lowenthal
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I've just been playing Tai Chi for a few years, in the Cheng Man Ch'ing style. This is a great book for somebody like me. Lots of practical advice and tips; just getting oriented properly. It's not comprehensive at all. It assumes you know the form and push hands, or anyway doesn't provide any sort of basic instruction. It does a great job of steering the reader toward a deeper understanding of what this stuff is all about. I have a lot to learn! This book shed valuable light on the road ahead. ( ) Seit etwas über einem Jahr lerne ich die Tai Chi Form nach Cheng Man-ch'ing. Das Buch wurde mir empfohlen und ich habe es sehr gerne gelesen. Es ist erstmals 1991 erschienen und in einzelne Kapitel unterteilt, die aber thematisch recht durcheinander gewürfelt erscheinen. Das tut dem Lesevergnügen jedoch keinen Abbruch. Geschrieben hat ein Schüler Cheng Man-ch'ings, Wolfe Löwenthal. Er erzählt ein bisschen Biografisches aus Cheng Man-ch'ings Leben, das 1975 endete, alltägliche Begebenheiten beim Unterricht und einiges über Cheng Man-ch'ings Ansichten zu korrekter Übung, korrekter Lebensführung und geistiger Ausrichtung. Jedem, der sich für Tai Chi interessiert, kann ich das Buch ans Herz legen. There Are No Secrets is a series of vignettes about Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing and his tai chi. The book is not for instructional purposes (e.g., 'here's how you perform Ward Off'), but rather focuses on different aspects of tai chi training, the author's personal experiences in training, and the Professor's philosophy, which is a mixture of Taoism and Confucianism (at one point in the book the Professor comments he is '30% Lao Tzu and 70% Confuscius). It is written excellently and Wolfe's personally struggles with tai chi and 'softness' are both helpful and illuminating for the aspiring tai chi boxer. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"Wolfe Lowenthal's quiet little memoir will with window-opening wisdom reinforce, I think, my view of how Cheng stood on Tai Chi. It tells how a young writer reacted to this strange Chinese man when he appeared in New York City in the mid-1960s and stayed there for a decade before returning to Taiwan to die in 1975. In a nickel town where neurosis is a cardinal virtue, the Tai Chi center established by Cheng soon became an oasis of learning. In my visits there I was invariably approached by a quiet fellow with a ready smile and loads of questions. His form and sensing hands improved but he never lost his kindly ways. This led me once to tell the three seniors that the one person in the club who best exemplified Tai Chi was this junior. That man who has since become a teacher of the art is the author if this book." -Robert W. Smith, from the Preface Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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