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Today’s post is written by dkMommy Spot’s very own T’ai Chi practitioner, Sorin C.
Sorin's Latest Find, Published by Blue Snake Books.
I want to let you in on a little secret: I’m passionate about T’ai Chi. It all started some twenty years ago in Communist Romania. We were practicing in an “underground” fashion, in a secluded little park in Bucharest. An engineer was our mentor. Who knows how he got close to the art in those times; no martial art was the friend of the establishment, let alone T’ai Chi. Along came the so-called revolution in Romania, more of a political recession if you wish. It made a lot of victims but turned the country away from communism. A few years later I emigrated to the States and tied the knot again with T’ai Chi. Been practicing ever since, and will practice until the end of time. It’s that good.
So I’ve got my hands on a treasure now, called Cheng Tzu’s Thirteen Treatises on T’ai Chi Ch’uan
Chen Man Ch’ing left his Thirteen Treatises as a legacy to his life dedicated to T’ai Chi and also as a document to be studied by anyone who wants to know the essence, the core of T’ai Chi. The book is a guide to the art. It is for a curious mind as well as for the practitioner. It is for the beginner as well as for the advanced. Page after page, the author is revealing the meaning of the art; it is his transmission to the world.
Explained in plain words and illustrated with pictures of the form, the book will satisfy the needs of anyone interested in T’ai Chi. It will take your understanding of the art to a new level, and it will guide you to correct practice. It will also introduce you to the Classics and challenge you to achieve “The mind mobilizes the ch’i and the ch’i mobilizes the body.” I am really happy to have gotten a chance to read this book, and I know it will serve me continuously as a reference for my practice of the art.
Want to win your own copy of Cheng Tzu’s Thirteen Treatises on T’ai Chi Ch’uan
Multiple Options for Multiple Entries:
1.) Just visit Blue Snake Books and tell me what other book(s) you like there. (***You may enter once a day, but please list a new item you like each time.) Remember, leave an interesting comment. If I cannot contact the winner, you might be chosen instead based on your comment.
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Feel free to do all four to gather multiple entries to win! You have until midnight EST on Friday, August 21, 2009, to enter.
I am a new subscriber to dkmommy and would like to renew my tai chi cred as I had a vcr tape with a tai chi program but no longer have a vcr.
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I’d be interested in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Basic Techniques.
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My boyfriend is bond-and-determined to be a master at t’ai chi
He also wants to take wing chun (kung fu) He has a passion for martial arts
This would be an awesome gift
thanks for the contest
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would love Steal My Art, Mind Over Matter and The Philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan!!!!!
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Oooo a contest AND I get to look at books? I’m in! The ‘Wild Design’ book looks really cool, I love the round house on the cover!
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I would also love to read Capoeira by Taylor.
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My pick is The Intuitive Body
Discovering the Wisdom of Conscious Embodiment and Aikido by Wendy Palmer. Teen and hub were aikido students for many years and this would be helpful!
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I think that My Art, Mind Over Matter and The Philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan would be great to help calm me and center me.
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I like the Muay Thai Book.
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Rick Wang’s “Classical Three-Sectioned Staff
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Thanks for the chance to win a prize!
Sorry I am late in commenting!! Great review! I can read your passion for your sport! Continued success and enjoyment on your future in martial arts! Goooo Sorin!! I am a subscriber. I don’t know how to twitter!! Mustang Mike
Thursday and I need this to relax.
I think another book I’d be interested in is Reflections of Being!
I’d love to read The First 16 Secrets of Chi by Luk Chun Bond because I’m facinated by the Oriental healing principles. There really is so much to learn that we in the Occidental world are completely oblivious to!
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Thanks for the wonderful giveaway
Chi Gong for the Sexes sounds good.
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“Reflections of Being”!
I would like to read Baqua Linked Palms by Master Wang Shujin. I would like to read anything by someone who calls themself a Master. It’s a bold title.
I would like to read “Master of Five Excellences” by Cheng Man Ch’ing. I’d like to read more about the 5 disciplines to being a well-rounded person. Thank you for the giveaway!
I would also love to read Capoeira Conditioning, thanks!
I would love the Capoeira 100 book as would interest me.
Yin-Yang in Tai-Chi Chuan and Daily Life looks good, too. Thanks!
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I like the book Emnty Force.
like to read Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Basic Techniques…….