Maggie Newman T'ai Chi Ch'uan Archive I: "Following the Ch'i"

i enjoyed watching this and seeing Maggie doing the form.i was a tiny bit disappointed in that she doesnt include the exercise she did before the form a sort of warmup which i believe she invented.And she left out the sitting we used to doin which she showed us special arm movements or gestures that we did at first.But above all it is wonderful to have the two dvds makes me want to go back in timeto those early days on the Bowery and East Broadway....

This DVD with its companion vol II, is a real treasure about a woman that, for her Tai Chi practice along almost 50 years of Tai Chi in the legacy of Professor Cheng Man Ching, deserves our admiration even if we disagree with this kind of technical performance.A must in every serious Tai Chi student library even from other styles.

Scott Meredith has recommended this DVD set on his blog. Mr. Meredith is the real thing. He is one of quite few teachers who teach the "real thing" in energy cultivation. He's the real deal. I can only make a little of his stuff work, and the little I can work works weakly for me---not strongly. But if you get just a little juice---when you had really none before---and you use it all the time, all the time, all the time, you can get great benefits. If Mr. Meredith says she's the real thing and her DVD is worth buying, everyone should buy two immediately. She must be the real deal. There are, sadly, few "real" teachers of this stuff, and "the stuff" is of surpassing importance. I tell you seriously, it can let a person heal injuries that would sometimes require surgery. It can do that at least sometimes---maybe not every time for every problem.