Posture 33G. (Repeat of Posture 7)
58
Posture 33H. (Repeat of Posture 8)
59
Posture 33-1. (Repeat of Posture 24)
60
Posture 34. Step Forward to Seven Stars
61
Posture 35. Step Back and Ride Tiger
62
Posture 36. Turn Body and Sweep Lotus with Leg
63
Posture 37. Bend Bow and Shoot Tiger
64
Posture 37A. (Repeat of Posture 14)
65
Posture 37B. (Repeat of Posture 15)
65
Posture 37C. (Repeat of Posture 16)
66
Posture 37D. Conclusion
67
The Solo Exercise Checklist
68
The Solo Exercise: A Photographic Sequence
69
V.
T'ai-chi for Sport
78
Pushing-Hands Practice: The Basic Movements
80
Movement 1. Single-Hand Exercise
82
Movement 2. Ward-off
84
Movement 3. Press
85
Movement 4. Rollback
86
Movement 5. Push
87
Uprooting Technique: How to Perfect It
88
VI.
T'ai-chi for Self-Defense
90
Interpreting Strength
90
Self-Defense Movements
92
Movement 1. Step Forward, Deflect Downward, Parry, and Punch
93
Movement 2. Withdraw and Push
94
Movement 3. Squatting Single Whip and Golden Cock Stands on One Leg, Right
95
Movement 4. Separate Right Foot
96
Movement 5. Fair Lady Works at Shuttles, Right
97
Movement 6. Turn Body and Sweep Lotus with Leg
98
VII.
Two Masters Look at T'ai-chi
99
Yang Cheng-fu's Twelve Important Points
99
Questions and Answers
101
VIII.
The T'ai-chi Ch'uan Classics
106
The Body as One Unit
106
Coordinating the Substantial and Insubstantial
109
The Thirteen Postures and the Mind
110
Song of the Thirteen Postures
111
Song of the Pushing-Hands Practice
112
Appendices
Key to the Foot-Weighting Diagrams
113
Sequence Diagram of the Solo Exercise
113
Foreword
After twenty years of practice, Professor Cheng Man-ch'ing in 1950 published Cheng-tzu T'ai-chi Ch'uan Shih-san P'ien (Cheng's Thirteen Chapters on T'ai-chi Boxing). A decade later the growing popularity of T'ai-chi Ch'uan in the world led Cheng to publish a text in English on the art. The text suffered, however,
