You can learn a lot if you study videos in a disciplined manner and then have the opportunity to get corrections or advice from someone who can actually get the shapes and methods done with some expertise. The latter may seem harsh but a cut to an artery can cause you to go into shock or bleed to death in a very short period of time. The infesting force is generated at the end of each posture and is a wave-like impulse developed by athletes under the back spine and waist. This is a book that will set standards.The first step is to smooth the flow of Qi and blood leaving the body circulating unobstructed. His writing is highly crafted, his analysis astute, and his subject matter riveting. Indeed, analyzing the practice that most epitomizes the Chinese spirit for the West, Frank elucidates the deep transformations that take place when traditional forms are inhabited by and, in turn, transform the global imagination. Following the path and the myth of the 'little old Chinese man,' both in embodied practice and in mediated representations, Frank tracks the circuitous and often surprising turns of cultural imaginations in both the East and the West. "Adam D.Frank's evocative ethnography is more than a story of apprenticeship to masters of tai chi in Shanghai, China.
John Nelson, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Director, Asian Studies Degree Program, University of San Francisco Frank's compelling ethnography to be a highly contemporary urban practice that can teach us a great deal about how culture travels in these postmodern times."
"Both product and producer of modern identity for people around the globe, the martial art of taijiquan is shown in Adam D. Ward Keeler, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
He shows, with modesty and wit, that the form provides insight into Chinese conceptions of the self, the body, and social relations - all of which are put into question in contemporary China's rapid and at times uncomfortable transformation." Drawing on his considerable experience as both practitioner and observer of taijiquan,Frank examines the paradoxes and ironies that proliferate when an ancient tradition enters the international media scene.
Frank notes that many people, Chinese and non-Chinese alike, look to martial arts masters to fulfill their fantasies of finding some font of wisdom, or source of power, and/or an Oriental essence.
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