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The warm-up and practice session are performed in a picturesque outdoor lake scene, ducks swimming in the background. But the tips and lessons take place in an unattractive setting with white drapes covering the walls and ending in piles on the floor--quite a disconcerting contrast to the lovely lake scene. Wong-Douglas is a mature woman who glides through the movements with the gracefulness of a cloud skimming across the summer sky. --Joan Price
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Special Interests, Instructional |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of T'ai Chi: The Mulan Style (A Feminine Art for Power, Grace &
Graceful This tape teaches balance and grace. I work with seniors. People don't realize that balance is a major problem with older people. The moves in this tape look for easier than they are. I am still working on this tape. It takes a lot of strength to be this graceful. I hope they follow up with more of this type of tapes.
Beautiful Tai Style -- Unlike any other, almost dancelike
A lovely Tai Chi style that is almost etherial in its beauty. This Mulan Tai Chi style is very unique. In my years of experience in Tai Chi and martial arts I have not seen anything like it. The liquid flow seems to be a very healthful way to practice T'ai Chi, and its ability to develop yin energy is something sorely needed in this day and age. I highly recommend this video program!!
Complicated... Rather Enjoyable
I guess I'm on the middle road when it comes to this video. It was helpful and fun but I can understand some of the objections too.
For me the exercizes did increase my balance, flexibility, and grace. I even lost a bit of weight after a month or two. The flowing movements were a joy to preform... after I had decided how they were to be performed- which was no easy task the farther I progressed in the course.
There weren't enough camera angles to really show how a movement was to be executed and to make matters worse, the instructor added her own flourishes after the basic move had been run through two or three times, further confusing me. This was even more evident when you ran through the full form up to the move you'd just learned. Some of the moves were almost unrecognisable.
I fully agree that this form should be taught by a live instructor. Some of the moves near the end of the course are best learned where you can ask questions.
In the explination of the video- this being a feminine art form, I believe she was trying to say that this form of Tai Chi would help make the balance of Yin and Yang within a person be best suited for a female. I can't say I felt any more " feminine " after my lessons, but I did feel better about myself.
I too was wondering about the breathing, since breath control is supposed to be very important in Tai Chi. The instructor only starts you off with the breathing pattern at the very beginning and then leaves you to decide just where you are to hold your breath and where it is necessary to breathe through the move.
It was fun but it could have been better.