chapter 13 - LEARNING A LONG FORM "PREPERATIONAL" VIDEOS & Tai Chi Long Form "Instructional" VIDEOS

Above you saw several intro-videos to prepare you for the Tai Chi Long Form Instruction beginning below in Chapter 13, so that when you start learning Tai Chi you'll have a deeper understanding of postural alignment, weight shifting, and what movements feel like, and how the body relaxes into them.

The Chapter 13 illustrations in the book are highly detailed, showing you postural alignment (vertical axis), and shading in the legs show how body weight is distributed, and some illustrate how the Qi, or energy flows through you when performing these movements.

Seeing each of the coming Movement's illustrations which link to the video for that movement will help you sync the book instruction with the video of that movement "in action." Between the detailed text/illustrations in the printed book, and these video moving exhibitions of the movements, you have perhaps the most-effective multi-media instructional available. CLICK ON BOOK ILLUSTRATION IMAGES BELOW to be taken to the YOUTUBE PAGE for that video.

DO NOT BE OVERWHELMED BY THE DETAILS OFFERED IN THE BOOK, Rome wasn't built in a day. you will learn Tai Chi in "layers." The first layer is just learning where to put your hands and feet. In time you'll get used to the postures, or movements, and then you can pay more attention to the details of exactly where the weight is, postural alignment, Qigong breathing, etc. THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO ENABLE YOU TO KEEP COMING BACK TO IT FOR MONTHS AND EVEN YEARS ... to refine your Tai Chi forms and practice. Don't worry, you'll enjoy benefits very quickly, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MASTER TAI CHI to get the benefits. But as you learn the forms and practice them regularly, when you come back to this book's text/illustration and video instruction you'll see deeper layers in it, and your Tai Chi will progress for the rest of your life!  The main thing for now, is just relax and have fun, play at learning, take one movement at a time, until it feels natural to do. Then move on to the next movement.  THIS BOOK IS A GEM THAT WILL KEEP ON GIVING. See experts testimonials below.

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-- Dr. Michael Steward Sr., D.MA, Ph.D., MA, Senior Coach for Team USA, Inductee of the World Sports Medicine and World Martial Arts Hall of Fame

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-- G.T. Francis, Customer Service, Intramural-Recreational Sports, University of Virginia 

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Although the combination of this books illustrations/text/video exhibitions is perhaps the world's most highly comprehensive instructional ... if you want even more ... The authors 4 HOUR DVD instructional, which breaks down each movement in real-time just like being in one of his live classes, is available at a HUGE DISCOUNT to CIG Readers only. See Appendix C at bottom of pages to learn more.

Table of Contents for Chapter 13's Tai Chi Long Form Instructional Pages:

Movements #1 thru #9;                      Movements #10 thru #22       Movements #23 thru #32   

Movements #33 thru #46                   Movements #47 thru #59       Movements #60 thru #64