"Taijiquan First Five Sections" is an aid for learning the first five sections of Chen Style Taijiquan. Taijiquan is a boxing system that cultivates good health, physical power, sensitivity, and martial awareness. The wealth of knowledge in Taijiquan is encyclopedic and requires a lifetime to master. This book cannot substitute the importance of having a teacher, but it can be used as a mnemonic device for beginning your taiji practice. When practicing Taijiquan, aim for perfection knowing that you may never get there. The skills are limitless and the peaks are unfathomable, but every step is...

Chen Family Taijiquan is known as "Supreme" and "Ultimate" because it embodies the paradoxical mysticism of the "Grand Terminus" which is Yin and Yang. Taijiquan conquers the strong by being gentle, improves health by being martial, and accomplishes great feats by being gradual. It retains the masculine and the feminine, the hard and the soft, the young and the old, and the positive and the negative. Taijiquan is "Supreme" because it is for everybody.