About this title: Bruce Kumar Frantzis has written this book as an introduction for martial arts practitioners to the internal arts of Tai Chi, Hsing-I and Ba Gua, which are not usually seen as fighting arts. The book is organized around chapter-by-chapter profiles of Oriental masters who taught Frantzis - including Cheng Man-ch'ing ad Morihei Ueshiba. Frantzis ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Has a marker line on the bottom, inside edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 300 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Close to like new condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 300 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,, Berkeley:
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: Very Good. 1556432534. Black and white photographs throughout. First printing (paperback). Corner crease to front cover, else very good in pictorial wraps. read more
Description: Very Good+ 1556432534. Clarity Press; 1st Printing; 1998; 344 pages. Mild rubbing on top edge of cover. Crisp unmarked interior.; Small 4to 9"-11" tall. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Berkeley, CA., North Atlantic Books., 1998
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: Small quarto, softcover, VG in brown pictorial wraps. 344pp. Clean and unmarked. Gives specific similarities and differences between this and external martial arts. Reflections on the 3 approaches to martial arts--animal, human, spiritual. differences plus health and spiritual growth; nature and use of speed; how it can help reduce stress; personal profiles of 9 of the great internal martial arts masters, how chi power is created, grown and used in the body. read more
Edition: First Softcover Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: Near Fine. First Softcover Edition. NF. Softcover, stiff wraps, 344 pp, b&w illustrations, slight edgewear to cover, else a clean and crisp copy. read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 1556432534. Softbound, light wear/soil, crease starting at spine, pgs clean/bright; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Trade Folio
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: As New. As new TB-folio pictorial and illustrated cover pges neat and tight. Reflections on the approaches to martial arts-animal, human and spiritual, nature and use of speed in martial arts, internal arts can help reduce stress, heal disease, and balance the emotions, and how all important chi power is created, grown and used in the body. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN-13:9781556432538ISBN:1556432534
Description: New in New jacket. From the author of Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body comes a book that introduces martial arts practitioners to three "internal" arts and their subtle powers. Inner martial arts rely on internal energy for power rather than on muscles or tension. read more
"This book is what caused me to study internal kungfu and partially the reason I am getting my Master's in Chinese Medicine. This is no other book out there like this. It is truly a classic and catches the true essence of the Internal Martial Arts, healing, the nature of spirit, and the Warrior heart."
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