Reference: July 2007 Archives

Dr. Yang is probably the most prolific Taiji author of our time.  He has written many books on Taiji forms, applications, and fundamentals.  He has also translated many of the Taiji classics from Chinese to English.  Mostly focused on Yang style Taiji, he as done several videos showing forms, applications, exercises, push hands, etc.

Here is the complete list of Dr. Yang's books and videos.

I always like reference material like this - here's a posture by posture drawing of the simplified 24-step Taiji form.  The page includes the names both in English and in Chinese, so if you're doing the 24-step form you might find it useful.  Another good resource on this is the description of the postures, with links to the drawings.

Also, speaking of references and resources, I ran across this Taiji Links page which contains many many links.  It's good to have a one-in-all reference but then it's hard finding material in it.  Nevertheless I'm putting it here so that I review it later and see if I can find anything specific on it to review more and write about.