The Tao of Wing Chun: The History and Principles of China's Most Explosive Martial Art - Couverture rigide

Little, John; Xuan, Danny

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 162914777X ISBN 13 : 9781629147772

Editeur : Skyhorse, 2015

Synopsis

Wing Chun est la forme la plus populaire de Kung Fu chinois dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, avec plus de quatre millions de pratiquants. L'art comme il est actuellement compris a été transmis de maître à élève depuis plus de trois cents ans. Jusqu'à présent, personne n'a jamais reculé et pris un regard critique sur la raison pour laquelle cet art? Les techniques de sont présentées et réalisées comme elles sont. Ce livre, par le maître Wing Chun Danny Xuan et l'autorité des arts martiaux John Little, est le premier à déchiffrer ces techniques que jusqu'à présent ont été chiffrés à l'intérieur de cet art. Xuan et Little Wing Chun montrent comment a été conçu de manière globale, sur la base des lois de la physique, la nature humaine, et biomécaniques. Il a également été conçu avec l'économie, l'efficacité et la productivité à l'esprit. Contrairement à d'autres arts martiaux, Wing Chun doesn se concentrer sur t rendre une personne plus grande, plus robuste, acrobatiques ou d'un animal semblable?; plutôt, il met l'accent sur l'utilisation optimale des un? s propre structure corporelle et le potentiel de puissance en appliquant les sciences de la physique et de la biomécanique. Ainsi, il est possible pour les hommes et les femmes de tous âges et de tailles pour exceller dans cet art. Le Tao de Wing Chun est un moyen lisible, autorité de cultiver les compétences de protection personnelle, une flexibilité accrue, une meilleure coordination, une plus grande endurance et de remise en forme physique et mentale tout en cultivant simultanément l'humilité, l'accent, la détermination, la confiance en soi, le caractère, la camaraderie et profonde force intérieure. Avant tout, ce livre offre au lecteur les moyens par lesquels d'appliquer les principes du Wing Chun dans la vie quotidienne. Renforcée par quarantehuit illustrations en couleur

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over four million practitioners. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than three hundred years.
Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art’s techniques are presented and performed the way they are. This book, by Wing Chun master Danny Xuan and martial-arts authority John Little, is the first to decipher these techniques that until now have been encrypted within this art.
Xuan and Little reveal how Wing Chun was designed holistically, based on the laws of physics, human nature, and biomechanics. It was also designed with economy, efficiency, and productivity in mind. Unlike other martial arts, Wing Chun doesn’t focus on making a person larger, more rugged, acrobatic or animal-like; rather, it focuses on making optimal use of one’s own bodily structure and power potential by applying the sciences of biomechanics and physics. Thus, it is possible for males and females of all ages and sizes to excel in this art.
The Tao of Wing Chun provides a readable, authoritative means of cultivating personal protection skills, enhanced flexibility, improved coordination, greater stamina, and physical and mental fitness while simultaneously cultivating humility, focus, determination, self-confidence, character, camaraderie, and deep inner strength. Foremost, this book offers the reader the means by which to apply Wing Chun principles in daily life.
Enhanced by forty-eight full-color illustrations, The Tao of Wing Chun will fascinate, educate, and entertain a wide range of readers from beginner to master.

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Biographie de l'auteur

John Little is a martial artist who has studied both Wing Chun (under Danny Xuan) and Jeet Kune Do (under Bruce Lee's last private student Ted Wong) and is also an inductee into the American Martial Arts Hall of Fame. He is an award-winning filmmaker ("Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey") and the author of over forty books on subjects ranging from physical fitness and health to martial arts, history and philosophy.
Danny Xuan has been a Wing Chun practitioner for over forty years. He travels internationally to instruct and has been featured in documentaries on the art produced by studios such as Warner Bros. Danny writes an instructional column for Wing Chun Illustrated magazine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Skyhorse
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 162914777X
• ISBN 13: 9781629147772
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 272