Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781585652938 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 1585652938 Label: Goldhil Home Media Manufacturer: Goldhil Home Media Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Goldhil Home Media Release Date: January 18, 2000 Running Time: 30 minutes Studio: Goldhil Home Media Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Sales Rank: 29007
Amazon.com: If you've ever been curious about the health benefits of tai chi, the meditative martial art with legendary life-extending and energy-boosting powers, this video offers you an easy starting point. David Carradine and renowned master Arnold Tayam guide beginners through a thorough, 30-minute workout, beginning with simple stretches and gradually moving up to an abbreviated, easy-to-follow version of the whole tai chi form. Throughout, less emphasis is placed on the unusual names for the poses than on how they should feel on the inside and how they should look from the outside. The more complicated moves are shown repeatedly from different angles, sometimes shot from two positions at once to make it easier for viewers to follow at home. As well as showing the physical moves, Carradine's soothing narration guides students through the medical benefits of each exercise and the all-important inner visualizations that accompany each stance, from the careful pattern of breathing or an imaginary ball of glowing energy held between the hands. Hardcore martial artists might find the gentle pace of this video too easy-going for them, although the self-defense potential of some of the exercises is obvious. This workout (like its tranquil companion piece, Tai Chi for the Mind), isn't about tai chi as a fighting style; it's about a smooth, non-strenuous workout suitable for people of any age and in any physical condition. --Grant Balfour
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Workouts after Work
I'm a cashier at a grocery store, and i was frist turned to this tape when my mother ordered it for me through a magazine i think. It sat on my shelf for a good few months before i popped it in and decided ... Read More
Rating: - Try something else
This video (note, only 30 minutes long) suffers from poor camera work...angles from the rear are rare and make the forms tough to follow.
Carradine's goofy eletric blue suit doesn't help anything ... Read More
Rating: - keep making videos David your a great instructor
This is one of Davids best.I had the opportunity to study with David in October and bought all his new tapes.This TApe is fast moving easy to follw and it has comitted me to the practice of the arts like no sensee ... Read More
- Workouts after Work
- Try something else
- keep making videos David your a great instructor