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HOME DOJO
Patience Tai Chi Association (PTC)
Patience Tai Chi Association
Brooklyn, New York
Master William C. Phillips, Founder
Website: PatienceTai Chi.com
SENIOR STUDENTS
- James Leporati
- Avi Schneier
- Michael Pekor,
- Marisa Coluccio
- Jill L. Basso
Fellow Tai Chi Enthusiasts, Classmates, Friends
Tai Chi Kung Fu of Long Island
Sinobarr Productions: Ken Van Sickle
Tai Chi Productions Dr. Paul Lam
Cheng Man-Ch’ing Biography Project
Tai Chi Farm and the Grandmaster
Recommended Readings
Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing Form Instruction
Cheng Man-Ch’ing, T’ai Chi Chuan: A Simplified Method of Calisthenics for Health & Self Defense, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 1981
Cheng Man-Ch’ing, Master Cheng’s New Method of Tai Chi Ch’uan Self Cultivation: translated by Mark Hennessy, Frog, Ltd c/o North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 1999
Cheng Man-Ch’ing and Robert W. Smith, T’ai-Chi: The “Supreme Ultimate” Exercise for Health, Sport and Self-Defense, Charles E. Tuttle Co, Inc., Rutland, VT, 1967
Tai Chi Philosophy and Principles
Hennessy, Mark, Cheng Man-Ch’ing: Master of Five Excellences, Frog, Ltd., Berkeley, CA 1995
Jou, Tsung Hwa, The Tao of Tai-Chi Chuan Way to Rejuvenation, Tai Chi Foundation, Warwick, NY, 1981
Liao, Waysun, T’ai Chi Classics, Shambhala Classics, Boston, MA, 1977
Lo, Benjamin Pang Jen, Inn, Martin, Amacker, Robert & Foe, Susan, The Essence of T’ai Chi Ch’uan: The Literary Tradition, Blue Snake Books, North Atlantic, Berkeley, CA, 1979
Lowenthal, Wolfe, There are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man-Ch’ing and his Tai Chi Chuan, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA 1991
Wile, Douglas, Master Cheng’s Thirteen Chapters on T’aiChi Ch’uan, Sweet Ch’I Press, Brooklyn, NY 1982
Wile, Douglas, T’ai-chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions, Sweet Ch’i Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1983
Wile, Douglas, Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Advanced T’ai-Chi Form Instructions, Sweet Ch’i Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1985
Recommended DVDs
Patience Tai Chi: Form and Push Hands DVD’s (link to dvd)
The CMC Master Tapes (Cheng Man-Ch’ing Enterprise) (link)
T’ai Chi: The International Magazine and Wayfarer Productions (link)
Articles
The health benefits of Tai Chi (Harvard Medical School)
A Life Biography of Cheng Man-Ch’ing, By Tam Gibbs
Five Good Principles of Tai Chi Skills
Taoism and Tai Chi Chuan, James Leporati
The Journal of Asian Martial Arts
Yang Cheng Fu’s Ten Essential Points
Tai Chi for Children
WEBSITES
BOOKS
Figueroa, Jose and Berwick, Stephan, Tai Chi for Kids, Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon, VT, 2005
Olson, Stuart Alve, Tai Chi for Kids: Move with the Animals, Bear Cub Books, Rochester, VT 2001
ARTICLES
Teaching Tai Chi Chuan to Kids
Research
Robust evidence of Tai Chi’s beneficial effect on health and how it works.
Thomas A. Krapu, Ph.D Website: Research on Tai Chi
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