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T'ai Chi Thirteen Sword
A Sword Master's Manual

Stuart Alve Olson
Multi-Media Books/Unique Publications, 1999
ISBN: 1-892515-14-8
7x10, 258 pages, 300+ photographs
Paperback

Tai Chi Thirteen Sword is the first serious treatment of Tai Chi Sword methods and philosophy in English. Although sword is usually just considered an aspect of Tai Chi Ch'uan, this book clearly shows that sword practice is not only a complete system but an art in and of itself, and need not be trained in conjunction with any other Tai Chi exercise.

Tai Chi Thirteen Sword goes far beyond just describing the traditional Yang Style Sword Form. Included within are first-time presentations of the following sword aspects:

Detailed posture instructions with photographs of the author
performing the movements.

Internal principles and applications for each of the sword form postures.

Warm-up methods and the San-Chiao (Triangulation)
Two-Person Training Exercises.

Secrets of the Eight Sword Hands.

The Thirteen Secret Sword Meanings and their applications.

Methods for training the Sword fingers.

A pictorial essay of three famous sword masters—Chen Wei Ming,
Hsiung Yang Ho, and T.T. Liang—performing the traditional
Tai Chi Sword Form.

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