Alfredo Gutierrez's father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown--the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is both a personal chronicle and a thought-provoking history, the war on Mexican immigrants has rarely abated. Barack Obama now presides over an immigration policy every inch the equal of Herbert Hoover's in its harshness. His family experiences inspired Gutierrez to pursue the life of a Chicano activist. Kicked out of Arizona...
Alfredo Gutierrez's father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown--the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred durin...
"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...
"Taijiquan First Five Sections" is an aid for learning the first five sections of Chen Style Taijiquan. Taijiquan is a boxing system that cultivates g...
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.
Chen Family Taijiquan is known as "Supreme" and "Ultimate" because it embodies the paradoxical mysticism of the "Grand Terminus" which is Yin and Yang...