Cheng Hsin T'ui Shou: The Art of Effortless Power

Voorkant
North Atlantic Books, 1991 - 290 pagina's
This book provided this beginning tai-chi student with a rich, methodical philosophical "grounding" on some concepts that that are at the core of Eastern martial arts. Ralston helps the reader develop an awareness, quite literally "from the ground up".
 

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Introduction
3
THE NATURE OF ABILITY
29
Challenging Conclusions
36
Transforming the Design
43
THE TECHNIQUES
49
THE BASIC PRACTICE
79
Neutralization
103
Pulling Techniques
119
TurnOut Projections
130
The Centrifugal Projection
137
Sitting Arm Lock
175
TurningIn Variation
182
The Horizontal Spiral Down
189
The Pull Down
195
The Central Spiral Drop
271
Copyright

of the Elbow Pull
122

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Over de auteur (1991)

Peter Ralston began studying material arts at age nine in Singapore. He was a Sumo champion at his high school in Japan and a collegiate fencing and Judo champion while a Physiology/Anatomy major at the University of California at Berkeley. He founded the Cheng Hsin School in Oakland, where he teaches a range of courses on martial arts and ontology (the study of being).

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