chapter 13 Videos - Tai Chi Long Form "Movements 60 thru 64" -you have nearly learned the long form!

Scroll down for Movements #60-64, or click for HOME PAGE of Chapter 13 (Tai Chi Long Form Movements).
TOC for other CIG book chapters:  
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, APPENDIX: A, B, C

Movement #60 video exhibition -  Cross Wave of Water Lily Kick (Part 2) 

Movement #61 video exhibition -  Stretch Bow to Shoot Tiger 

Movement #62 video exhibition - Single Whip (Part 6)   

Movement #63 video exhibition -  Grasp the Bird's Tail (Left Style)   

Movement #64 video exhibition -  Grand Terminus; Gather Heaven to Earth 

In this video enjoy following a Practice Session (in the park) where Movements #60 thru #64 are all flowed together. 

HOORAY!   YOU NOW KNOW A TAI CHI LONG FORM

"THE GUANG PING YANG STYLE LONG FORM" a proud and historic tradition passsed down for generations! And now YOU are part of this lineage.

This author is 6 generations descended from Yang Lu Chan, the creator of Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi, in the lineage of Yang Family Tai Chi.  Which makes YOU 7th generation in this ancient lineage :-)

PRACTICE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ... NOT TO WORK AT IT ... BUT TO PLAY AT IT ... the more you play the better you'll get. And remember, we don't do Tai Chi to get better at Tai Chi, we do Tai Chi to get better at EVERYTHING. As your Tai Chi improves and relaxes, your golf game, tennis game, you name it, will get better.

Go back and re-read "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tai Chi & Qigong" from time to time through your life, and as your Tai Chi unfolds in your life ... your self-awareness will deepen ... and as YOU CHANGE, you will see many subtle layers in the book that you missed the first time, or the first dozen times you read the book.

"Visionary!  If you only buy one book on T’ai Chi, then this is the book. I have taught T’ai  Chi for several decades myself, yet I have now read Bill’s book from  cover to cover seven times, and still get something new from it each  time."

—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

Notice the above review of this CIG to Tai Chi & Qigong book on how after reading this book 7 TIMES he still found new things in the book, by a master teacher who had taught Tai Chi for decades BEFORE reading this book. When I say you will find things in my book you missed the first time, it doesn't mean you didn't do it right, it just means you are a more aware and balanced human being who can perceive more subtle things. To try to grasp the totality of Tai Chi in the first learning ... would be like holding a beautiful flower seed in your hand and demanding that it show you what it will become RIGHT NOW!  It can't happen like that, it has to grow and expand and unfold and blossom endlessly throughout your life. And that is an adventure worth having :-) And it will not just change the way you "do things" but the way "you are," your very presence will grow and deepen ... and you will re-discover a child-like wonder in things you once held as mundane. You will see deeper into things. 

 "Listen! I will be honest with you.
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes.
These are the days that must happen to you ...  Allons! the inducements shall be greater; We will sail pathless and wild seas;  We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.    Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements!  Health, defiance, gayety, self-esteem, curiosity ... I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes;  We convince by our presence."
-- Walt Whitman

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

-- Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching 

If you want more, you can go to Appendix C of this book, where you can get a huge reader discount on this author's 4 HOUR DVD program, which offers real-time class like instruction, to polish your form.

Spend the rest of your life seeing just how much you can relax and let go around your form.

Visionary!  If you only buy one book on T’ai Chi, then this is the book. This book  is all you ever needed to know to change your life. I have taught T’ai  Chi for several decades myself, yet I have now read Bill’s book from  cover to cover seven times, and still get something new from it each  time.

—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

"I have purchased many Tai Chi DVDS, and none comes even close to Bill Douglas's Anthology of Tai Chi & Qigong: The Prescription for the Future, in clarity, ease of use, and effective stress management."
-- H.B., Hong Kong

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

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

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

Appendix A (World Tai Chi Day) 

Appendix B (Recommended Reading)

Appendix C (HUGE CIG Reader Discount on Author's DVD)