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Title: Tai Chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions by Doug Wile, Douglas Wile ISBN: 0-912059-01-X Publisher: Sweet Ch I Press Pub. Date: June, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A scholarly compilation of early Yang oral and written works
Comment: Though "secret transmissions" is somewhat of a misnomer, what the author presents is a collection of early published taiji material--mostly by Yang Cheng Fu, though there is one work
indirectly attributed to Yang Ban Hou.

These early works are not a step-by-step manual, but guides to the practicing student to help gain insight into what they're practicing. What any reader should immediately pick-up, however, is that these guides were written for someone learning how to fight.

Though much of the material is by (and thus, oriented towards) a Yang-stylist, the fundamental principles of taiji remain the same in all styles, so there is enough material that all taiji practitioners can benefit by. In fact, this book was recommended to me by a Chen-style practitioner.

The other part of this book, the author's foreword, gives the colorful (and sometimes conflicting) historical background and accounts of the Yang family, which is in of itself a fascinating read.

This book is definitely recommended for any serious taiji student.

Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting Book
Comment: The books contains a few interesting passages, along with the common banalities that I hear all the time from anyone who knows what's what in Tai Chi.

Still, the stories are nice. It's refreshing to find a book where someone doesn't show you a (poor) form with 2 basic applications and claim to the the God of Tai Chi.

If you really want something to sink your teeth into, hit the tai chi classics.

PS- The best laugh in the pages of the book are the pics of Yang Chen Fu in "action". For a master, he had sloppy form.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book!
Comment: If you pratice Yang Style T'ai-Chi Ch'uan this book should sit next to your copy of the T'ai-Chi Ch'uan Classics!

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