Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan

Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan is the first English translation of Fu Zhongwen's esteemed handbook on the art of taijiquan. The book's superbly detailed form instructions are based upon Fu's more than twenty years of first-hand study as a disciple of the eminent Yang Chengfu. The historic line-art drawings that accompany the text were rendered from photos taken of Yang Chengfu's form. Together, the drawings and form instructions constitute some of the best documentation that we have of the traditional Yang Style Taijiquan form as taught by Master Yang Chengfu. Book jacket.

Louis Swaim lives and practices in Oakland, California. He has also translated an earlier taijiquan manual, Yang Chengfu: The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan (North Atlantic Books, 2005). He received his master’s degree in Chinese history, Mandarin, and Classical Chinese at U.C. Berkeley, and did additional language study at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies. He has been a taijiquan practitioner for over thirty years.