Cheng Hsin The Principles of Effortless Power
by RALSTON, PETEREdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-01-29
Publisher(s): North Atlantic Books
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Summary
Every once in a while you find a high impact book. Something that awakens something deep within and lasts forever. This is the one. It is a book that you can pick up time and time again and always gets something new out of it, or something deeper than you.Cheng Hsinis the best introduction for beginners to the internal practice of fighting. It is a seminal work that draws on T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Aikido, and Pa Kua Chang and was written by the first Westerner ever to win the world championship in a full-contact martial arts tournament.
Author Biography
Peter Ralston was raised in Asia and began studying martial arts at the age of nine. By the age of nineteen he was a black belt in Judo and Jujitsu (Nidan), black belt in Karate (Shodan), had been Sumo champion at his high school in Japan, Judo and fencing champion at the University of California at Berkeley, and had demonstrated proficiency in Kempo, Chuan Fa, and Northern Sil Lum Kung Fu. Later he studied Tai Chi Chuan, Hsing I Chuan, Pa Kua Chang, Aikido, Japanese and Chinese fencing, and western boxing.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Introduction, or "How to Read this Book" | |
| The Principles of Cheng Hsin | p. 1 |
| A Look at Body-Being Development | p. 19 |
| Establishing a Relationship With Cheng Hsin | p. 39 |
| The Cheng Hsin Body-Being: A Further Description | p. 53 |
| An Introduction to Functional Considerations | p. 65 |
| A Fundamental Consideration of Creating Ability | p. 75 |
| Cheng Hsin Applied to an Art Form | p. 91 |
| In Conclusion | p. 113 |
| The Basic Principles of Cheng Hsin - Revisited | p. 123 |
| An Interview with Peter Ralston - January 1979 | p. 139 |
| Discourse on the Art of Swordsmanship | p. 163 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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