Reading materials

  • Tai Chi magazine – TCAH
    Quarterly magazine, in English, issued by JDIATCC.
    Chief Editor : Master John Ding.

  • Tai Chi Chuan, Principles and Concepts
    By Grandmaster Ip Tai Tak
    Written in English and Chinese by Master Ding’s own Master. Prefaced by Master Ding. The story of a life-long commitment to Tai Chi Chuan and teaching. The experience of a Grandmaster.
    To be ordered at the Academy only.

  • How To Grasp The Bird's Tail
    "Meaning & metaphor in Tai Chi" by Jane Schorre.
    This is a unique book for students and teachers of Taijiquan attempting neither to teach Taiji nor to treat it in a scholarly way. Instead, it is a book of celabration. It celebrates the names of the Taiji movement, the visual beauty of Margaret Chang's Chinese calligraphy and the mystery and poetic ambiguity intrinsic to the chinese language, exploring possible meanings, both concrete and metaphoric.
  • Mind Over Matter
    By Shi Ming with Siao Wei Jia. Trans. by Thomas Cleary.
    This is a book for advanced student. It explores the Chinese approaches to mind/body and the refinement of consciousness in higher level of martial arts. Presents some new insights in Tai Chi. A must for serious practitioners.
  • Tai Chi Classics
    By Waysun Liao.
    The author presents the inner meaning and techniques of Tai Chi movements through new translations of three essentials texts of Tai Chi. A good reference book on the principles and concepts of Tai chi Chuan
  • Tai Chi Touchstones
    By D. Wile.
    The Yang family of Honan Province brought Tai Chi from a closed courtyard to the status of national treasure, and made it, like India's Yoga, a gift to the world. This book draws together the written and photographic record of their teachings and commentaries. The contents include songs, oral instructions, essays, autobiography and family legends. Much oh this material is translated for the first time.
  • Taiji sword
    By Chen Wei-ming.
    An illustrated sword form performed by Chen Wei Ming, one of the disciples of Master Yang Cheng Fu. There is also a list of names in both Chinese and English of the each sword posture. A must of practitioners of the Yang Style Tai Chi Sword form.