Grandmaster Ip Tai Tak, the author of this book and leading authority on the ancient art of Tai Chi Chuan, is the first disciple of the late Grandmaster Yang Sau Chung, 4th generation in the Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan lineage. His vast experience and knowledge of Tai Chi Chuan spans a lifetime of disciplined and devoted practice. The book also contains some rare pictures of Grandmaster Ip and Great Grandmaster Yang, and an analysis of postures in the form, sword, saber and thirteen spear techniques.

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Master Yang Style Taijiquan is the first English translation of Fu Zhongwen's esteemed handbook on the art of Taijiquan. The book's superbly detailed form instructions are based upon fu's more than twenty years of first-hand study as a disciple of the eniment Yang Chengfu. The historic line-art drawings that accompany the next were rendered from photos taken of Yang Chengfu's form. Together, the drawings and form instuctions constitute some of the best documentation that we have of the traditional Yang Style Taijiquan form as taught by Master Yang Chengfu.

Other important features of this book include:

• Fu Zhongwen's elucidation of moving points of concentration, termed jindian, in the Grasp Sparrow's Tail sequence of the form.
• Succinct description of Fixed-Step Push Hands, Active-Step Push Hands, and Dalu practice.
• Careful new translations of the five core "Taiji Classics."
• The translator's close investogation into the language of the "Taiji Classics," revealing the grounding of the Taiji theory in abiding philosophical themes.