The Complete Book of Yiquan

by C.S. Tang

With detailed photographs and clear instruction for practice, this is the first book comprehensively to cover the history, development and training methods of this rarely taught esoteric internal martial art. The deceptively simple postures and movements of Yiquan are highly effective for achieving results for both health and combat, making it very appealing to martial artists, and Master Tang here reveals the secrets of a martial art still surrounded in mystery. He also provides a history of the origins and lineage of the Yiquan tradition, as well as detailed information on the stances and movements, weapons, and programs, grading and teaching. This complete guide to Yiquan will be essential for anyone interested in Yiquan or oriental martial and internal arts more generally.

Genres: Martial Arts, Nonfiction

416 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 2015

Reviews

[Jake · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating guide to a martial art which is a mixture of the 'Internal' - qi/chi based arts and "external" force like punching arts. The exercises and ideas were quite useful. This book is well complimented by the theoretical texts by yang jwing ming.

There was inside this book some useful guides to combat tactics as well and the differences between sport based ideas and war based. Useful text. I will admit in terms of tactic you may as well read sun tzu's art of war or a generalized book on strategy.

[Jason Gilbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book, would be great to get my copy back from Patrick Golden.