T'ai Chi For Dummies Paperback – 15 Aug. 2001

I love “Dummies” books and found them to be very helpful.This book explains the joy of T’ai Chi, though for me, I’d still go and find a course to learn it with a qualified instructor.However, don’t let this put you off. As a tutorial, I FULLY recommend this book to get you started on your T’ai Chi journey.Buy with confidence.

Love the book. Very easy

Very readable book. I have tried to plough my way through several other books on Tai Chi and have give up before half way, but this one is at my level! Easy to read, good humoured, lots of tips and hints and is easy to dip in and out of (sorry about the bad grammer!). This book is perfect for this dummy!

I have a couple of Tai Chi DVD's and there are some good YouTube videos. Hoping a book would give me more background, I ordered this one. I am a third through it and am giving up. It is so verbose and mushy with the details of movements entering at Chapter 8. To be fair, it is difficult to write about physical moves but I found the account of the mindful aspect turgid without real information.

Really insightful!

This book gives clear instructions on how to do the Yang Style 24 Form, the Eight Brocades, an 11 move short form and some other Qi Gong techniques. There are many pieces of advice on how to do the movements, the theory behind them, the history of Tai Chi mediatation and much more.There is really a lot of useful information to be had from this book.

As a Tai Chi/Qigong teacher I bought this because I like to see what is about and what is being written. I didn't expect this to offer much BUT found it very interesting especially some of the little comments made. I'm not sure that I like the format but the more I dip into it,, the more I find it has to offer. Very basic but that is what one would expect from the title and I have ti out with other books/magazines for my students to look through. Not too sure about the cover photo with the locked elbows!

Easy to understand with a down to earth and hunerous delivery. Will help to get a grip of the coordination required to stop falling over and keep the movements flowing. The history of T'ai Chi is very interesting and not over done.