Tai Chi: Moving at the Speed of Truth

Burt, William Broughton

ISBN 10: 1945760265 / ISBN 13: 9781945760266

Published by Grey Gecko Press, 2018

Mild amount of warping. Seller Inventory # mon0002842347

Synopsis:

From the author:

Please don’t try to learn Tai Chi by rote memorization. That’s the usual way, and it’s a Confucian teaching device for a Confucian age. This book devotes over two hundred pages to fresh, original explanations of what Tai Chi is and how it works.

As an educator, I’ve found that a principle-driven approach really softens the learning curve. Once we’ve absorbed the global principles of Tai Chi, the details more or less fall into place. Unfortunately, global information can be hard to come by in your usual Tai Chi class - which I’m not dissing. Really, there are some great teachers out there, and zillions of successful students. But modern Westerners need, uh, a little additional information. Confucians we are not. What we are is busy, and few of us are going to follow along obediently for three or four years in a program that’s never been explained to us.

You want my advice? Learn Tai Chi. Just however you can. It’s that good. But do yourself a favor and read these pages first. You’ll feel very empowered when you line up for that first lesson, and you’ll stay loose and light all the way through the learning curve. That’s important because you never reach the end of it. Tai Chi is all learning curve.

About the Author: Author William Broughton Burt grew up in a colorful river town on the east bank of the Mississippi. During his teen years, Burt discovered edgy writers such as Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, and Richard Farina. Upon receiving his masters from the University of Memphis, Burt was enlisted to teach English for a year in Shenzhen, China.During Burt's time in China, the SARS epidemic and subsequent panic broke out. Most foreigners chose to leave, but Burt remained, and his experiences became the basis of his first novel, "The Year of the Hydra." Now in his sixties, William Broughton Burt devotes his attention to essays on various subjects. Themes center around personal development viewed from his own unique, often salty, perspective.He swears he'll never write another novel.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tai Chi: Moving at the Speed of Truth
Publisher: Grey Gecko Press
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Acceptable