Tai Chi Chuan: Classical Yang Style

This incredible DVD is more than worth its price tag. Even experienced practitioners will find much to engage them. You need to spend a little time getting familiar with the navigation on this product, because there are many ways of calling up scenes or cross referencing individual movements and explanations. Every single move, wether part of the form, warm up, jigon, or fajin has its own chapter. It is also listed on a menu so you can for example see a move, then pass quickly back to see its martial application (13 fundemental postures are shown with martial applications) and then return again to the move.The problem for beginners, is that they are likely to be overwhelmed by the content of this DVD. If you are a begginer you should definitely purchase this DVD. But you need to be very disciplined in its use. And of course it is essential that you find yourself a teacher. Bear in mind that your teacher may work from a different version of the Yang long form.I suggest you ignore the theory lecture and go straight to the warm up and jigon excercises. When you have worked on these for a long time. Start on the first four movements of the form. Click on the yin yang symbol for each move to see the detailed information and slide show picture of the posture. Then you can click back immediately to see the move again. Find the martial applications where they exist for the moves you are working on. They will help you to understand the form much better even if like me, you are not wanting to use them martially.Dr Yang really needs to produce a second DVD to accompany this one showing him working with a student on each move giving detailed advice as we watch the individual working. The one drawback of this DVD is the lack of this type of presentaton.I am returning to the Yang long form after a long absence. For me this DVD is so good it is hard to praise it enough. If you read your reviews Dr Yang, then thank you again and again for what you have done here.

I have been practicing martial arts almost all my life:Judo for 6 years when I was younger, I left in my teenage yearsShotokan Karate, I joined 3 years ago, I still practice it every week and plan to go on.KickBoxing, for 6 months, I am lucky because this class is just before my karate class in the same gym and I can take both in 2 hours, but I am going to quit. (Aikido is going to fill this void)Aikido, 2 months, I like it alot, a different approach of that of Karate/KickBoxing.I am 30 years old and I mostly like very intense excersise, that's the main reason I joined Kickboxing, lot's of sparring.Then I bought this DVD for my mother and I got completely in love with Jaijiquan, this DVD is amazingly well done, lots of sections you can directly jump to, the initial lecture (mind opening and interesting), the section on Quigong... This DVD has finally opened the door the Aikido started to show me. A different approach (I knew something similar, Judo, but I was too young too look deeper on it and mainly liked it for the sparring and because it meant a game for me).The initial lecture also comments something very interesting about internal external martial arts:-internal (what I am discovering with Aikido and Taijiquan)-external (what I always have liked and like, Karate and Kickboxing)the concept of "calm", meditation, feeling your body and how both paths (ext/int) can help the other and reach the same ultimate goal. This is something I think I can use in Karate too.OK, I know this is only a bunch of facts about my life and very little about the DVD itself, but others here have made good review of it. I just want to say that this DVD (and Taijiquan itself) is very good and deserves a try if you are interested in Taijiquan and/or Martial Arts, I think it is very unlikely that it will dissapoint you.From Spain,

I began practicing T'ai Chi fifteen years ago. My first teacher was trained from childhood in China, then Taiwan, in the strict classical Yang Long Form. I began studying with him years later in a major U.S. city -- still Yang Long Form, still classical approach. That was a magical time, a magical experience that will be a part of me for the rest of my life.Periodic long-distance moves have since interrupted my study several times, but these have also required me to study with teachers of quite a few T'ai Chi styles and levels of expertise. Some were more fun, some more "practical," some much more "martial" in approach, and some were sadly "lightweight."Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming's video is truly "the real deal." From the first frame of his performance of the entire Form, I was instantly transported back to my first Teacher's class: not only is the sequence of postures and connecting movements EXACTLY the same as where I began, but the "spirit" and "feel" of T'ai Chi is also the same as it was then. With the wide range of styles and emphases in my classes since, I'd nearly forgotten how "pure" and powerful the classical Yang form truly is!Other reviews here have accurately described and appropriately praised the comprehensive contents and unsurpassed structure of this wonderful video that is at once a marvelous teaching tool and a true archival record of this ancient art.I'll summarize my opinion this way:If you EVER outgrow this DVD, please produce one of your own, so we can all study with you!Meanwhile, I'm gonna hang with Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming!!

This DVD needs some editing, but the errors are a learning experience as is the whole presentation, which serves not only to teach the 113 movements of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan but also to teach Tai Chi Qi Gong, and it provides an introduction to the Chinese language through both pin yin and Chinese characters for names and other relevant terms and through pronunciation, and its menus and segmentation permit adjusting one's approach to one's particular needs.

Très bien et traduit en français… cependant, les exercices ce font assez vite et les explications sont pas synchronisés avec l’exercice

Deep breathing has helped with my heart palpitations and anxiety which is great as I practice Qigong and Tai Chi daily.

Ottimo. Esposizione molto chiara e sintetica delle posizioni, panoramica completa di tutte le fasi.Peccato che non è in lingua italiana

Gut erklärt, aber etwas eigenständiger Yang-Stil. QiGong Inhalte ergänzen ganz gut das was hier in Deutschland (wie 8 Brokate, 18 harmonische Bewegungen etc...) im allgemeinen vermittelt wird. Zum Erlernen bedingt zu empfehlen.Ich habe diese DVD als Ergänzung zum bereits erlernten gekauft. Leider etwas lange Lieferzeiten von ca. 2 Wochen (UK).

J'ai étudié une autre forme avant celle-ci et par manque de pratique et d'enseignant je me suis résigné à apprendre une autre forme. Les mouvements ne sont pas évidents à apprendre car pas suffisamment décomposés et adaptés aux débutants. Le spectateur n'a pas d'autres choix que de suivre les mouvements du maître.