Kung Fu and Tai Chi: Chinese Karate and Classical Exercises

by Bruce Tegner, Alice McGrath

Dramatic kung fu forms, illustrated step-by-step directions. The Great Circle of tai chi. Excellent solo practice for fitness and recreation.

126 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1986

About the author

Bruce Tegner is a specialist in self-defense and sport forms of weaponless fighting. He is regarded to had been one of America's outstanding authority, teacher and innovator in this field.

He was, literally, born to the teaching of unarmed fighting skills; both his parents were professional teachers of judo and jiu-jitsu and they began to train him when he was two years old. Until he was eight years old, his mother and father taught him fundamentals; after that, he was instructed by Oriental and European experts.

In a field where most individuals study only one phase of work, Mr. Tegner's background is unusual. His education covered many aspects of the various kinds of weaponless fighting and included instruction in sword and stick fighting, as well. Before he gave up competitive judo, he became the California state judo champion. He holds black belts in judo and karate.

Altough Bruce Tegner was trained in the traditional style of karate, he introduced innovations and modernizations as soon as he began to teach. He separated and distinguished between sport and self-defense aspects of karate; he changed the method of teaching and he made both self-defense and sport karate more appropriate for present day use.