Description This is the book Ken Gullette wishes he had been able to read when he first began studying Tai Chi, Bagua and Xingyi in 1987.
And it all starts here..
They are powerful arts of self-defense.
There is nothing "soft" about these arts.
From the explosiveness of Xingyi to the relaxed power of Tai Chi and Bagua, the road to Internal skill is long and difficult, but very satisfying.
Concepts covered in these pages include: the ground path, peng jin, whole-Body movement, silk-reeling energy, Dantien rotation, and opening/closing the kua.
This is the starting point upon which all other skill is built." Ken has studied these arts since 1987, is a tournament champion, winning in empty-hand and weapons forms, no-contact, light-contact and full-contact matches, and he has students worldwide who have studied his DVDs and his website, www.internalfightingarts.com.
The Body Mechanics in this book are the starting point you need to develop the Structure and Internal strength that is required for the relaxed power, the iron wrapped in cotton, that the Internal arts are known for.
As Ken explains it, "The true intent of the Internal arts is self-defense.
In this book, he explains them in the same step-by-step detail that he uses in teaching his students, building on each of the concepts until you have a clear roadmap of what you need to practice for High-Quality Internal Structure and movement.
Ken has studied with some top Internal arts masters, and during the first ten years he was teaching, he boiled down the Body Mechanics he learned into six key concepts.
If you are a student or even a teacher of these arts, you should be able to learn something here that will deepen your own insight into the arts.
For the first time, these Body Mechanics are organized and discussed clearly, with more than 250 images and highly-detailed but simple language.
It gets to the point, stripping the mystical mumbo jumbo away, leaving detailed, real-world explanations of the six fundamental Body Mechanics that everyone should know when they study Tai Chi (Taiji), Bagua and Xingyi.
Description This is the book Ken Gullette wishes he had been able to read when he first began studying Tai Chi, Bagua and Xingyi in 1987
