Over 40 years ago, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Cheng Hsiang Yu, a Grandmaster of T'ai Chi Chuan, who was born in Shanghai, China. Our class met in a Buddhist Temple in New York's Low...view moreOver 40 years ago, I had the good fortune to be introduced to Cheng Hsiang Yu, a Grandmaster of T'ai Chi Chuan, who was born in Shanghai, China. Our class met in a Buddhist Temple in New York's Lower East Side, in a building that had once been a Jewish Synagogue. Nothing could have been more appropriate.
I and many others studied with Master Yu for decades. As we improved, we witnessed that our teacher literally got stronger as he aged. At 82, he could still throw us on the floor!
While this is not a book about the martial side of T'ai Chi, it is about the balance and stability component, which is the most important - and the most challenging.view less