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Sun Lu Tang's famous treatise on Tai Ji Quan.

Sun's original preface written in 1919 and photos of Sun performing the 98 part Sun Style Tai Ji routine. Part Two is a push hands sparring routine plus an explanation of its use as a bridge from the 98 movement form to free style sparring and ultimately to combat.

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   The Yang family made public the secret training formulas of the original Chen and later Wu styles, plus their own, and thus their writings are not entirely original but are 'transmissions', that is, are a dissemination of mixed teachings: transcriptions of earlier teachings, and commentary, plus original writings and written records of oral teachings. The publication of previously exclusive documents and the transcription of oral teachings was made possible by the Yang family's popularization of Tai Ji, which they brought to Beijing when they trained members of the royal family and court of the Ching dynasty. The Yangs not only spread Tai chi, but created an audience the existence of which made feasible and more worthwile the publication of these writings.

   Yang Family Secret Transmissions is the most complete source for the classical transmissions of Tai Ji Quan. The book contains more than 50 sections, including Ch'eng Fu's Self-Defense Applications of T'ai-chi chuan (T'ai-chi chuan shi-yung fa), Secrets of Tai Ji Forms Applications (from Wu Meng-hsia's publication of Yang Pan-hou's transmission) and The Meaning of the Martial Aspects of Tai Chi and Song of the Tai Chi Circle (from Shen Chia-chen's copy of Yang family manuscripts). Oral instructions, training "songs," commentaries on the Tai Ji Classics, essays, and Yang family history, plus 125 photos.

   The tradition of standing meditation or Yi Quan as it appears in the Yang Style Tai Ji Quan lineage!

   Warrios of Stillness, vol. I is essentially an incredibly detailed book on the cultivation of whole body or 'internal' power, perhaps the most detailed of any such book available on Tai Chi Chuan and the internal martial arts in general. Is divided into sections on (1) the CULTIVATION of body integration for (a) health and the prevention of disease, and (b) martial arts use, and (2) the USE of the internal power that has been cultivated--in push hands practice, discharge or fa jing energy,  neutralization of attacking force using whole-body integration, and more.

   Jan Diepersloot, senior student of Yi Quan Master Fong Ha, has spent over twenty years studying the martial arts meditative traditions, such as Yi Quan and Wu Ji Standing. He trained with such notables as Yi Quan Masters Han Xing Yuan and Dr. Yu Peng Shi, both students of Yi Quan's founder Wang Xiang Zhai, and has trained extensively with Wu Ji Standing advocate and push hands Master Cai Song Fang.

   In Warriors of Stillness, Diepersloot details all theoretical and practical aspects of meditative traditions in the Chinese martial arts and teaches the utility of these practices by explaining how the benefits of static posture practice extend to partner practice and martial arts technique. Numerous illustrations.

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   Over five years have gone into the making of this brand new book, the long-awaited sequel to Warriors of Stillness volume I, one of the only English language sources for YI QUAN, the tradition of standing meditation that is the most overt manifestation of the core principles of the internal martial arts or "neijia quan" of Xingyi, Bagua, and Tai Ji. The core practice of Xingyi is San Ti Shi posture holding, of Bagua the walking of the circle with proper postural alignment for integrated strength, and of Tai Ji the execution of the form with the proper connection necessary for power generation. A traditional way of referring to such connected strength is to speak of "Stillness in movement, movement in stillness."

   The book puts flesh on the bones of this proverb by elucidating how the practice of stillness in standing meditation defines and informs the use of movement in the internal martial arts, and is essential to developing peng (frame, or correctly connected musculature) and generating jin (the explosive force for which the internal arts are famous).

   The book is an exploration of the tradition of standing meditation or Yi Quan as it appears in Wang Xiangzhai's Xing Yi Quan lineage. Wang Xiangzhai 1885-1963) was a sixth generation Xing Yi master who learned from Guo Yunshen, famous fourth generation master of the lineage of Ji Ji Ke (Ji Long Feng).