Chi Kung For Health And Vitality

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2002-03-26 rating:
A great introduction to Chi Gung
This video is very clear and easy to follow. The presenter has a very strong Scottish accent but is still easy to understand. He introducs a few exercises at a time, then goes through those same few exercises in front of a class so you have plenty of repetition, with everything clearly explained which makes it so easy to follow. There are a few sections like this so you could do one section a day (about 10 mins) or go through the lot at once for a nearly 1 hour session. However, if you go through the whole lot at once it could get a bid tedious.

There is an extra session at the end on how to use Chi Gung to help you relax and improve your posture in the office (at your computer for example). This is well presented and clearly explained.

The only minus point is that the sound quality is not the best as it is filmed mostly outside so the wind can be heard in the mike. However, this is only a small minus on an otherwise excellent video.

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review by: date: 2001-11-16 rating:
Good introduction to the art, highly recommended
The video is presented by one of the head honcho's of the Tai Chi sport in the UK.
The Video is very good quality and is shot outside some kind of buddist monestery. The video takes you through the 18 exercises of Chi Kung, there are only two things that let the video down.
1. The sound is a bit crap in some places, this is because it is shot outside and the wind gets in his mike.
2. The guy has a very strong scotish accent I'm a "geordie" I and was struggling to understand him in places!
Apart from that the video is very helpful I actualy started doing it from the video and now attend classes. I have found this very usefull.


review by: date: 2000-07-27 rating:
Highly Recommended, especially to novices.
THE CHI KUNG WAY TO HEALTH & VITALITY

With Ronnie Robinson

Ronnie Robinson (just call him Mr. Motivator) is one of the better known of British (in his case Scottish) Tai Chi Chuan and Chi Kung/Qi Gong teachers. In recent years he has also done a sterling job as Secretary of the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain as well as editor of Tai Chi Chuan magazine and member of the Technical Panel. He has recently also taken on the job as Secretary for the Tai Chi Chuan & Qi Gong Federation for Europe. In addition in partnership with Bob Lowey he organises Tai Chi Caledonia every year with internal arts instructors from all over the world coming to Scotland to teach.

After more than twenty years practice, Ronnie has just released this video, produced by VMA International and demonstrating in detail 18 exercises of Tai Chi Chi Kung. People say that it is impossible to learn Tai Chi Chuan from a book or video, and I believe this is certainly true of forms. However, the exercises on this video are simple to learn, Ronnie explains and teaches them in a clear and precise manner, correcting the technique of errant students where necessary.

One of the great problems with Tai Chi Chuan is that it is difficult to learn and even more difficult to do well. Many people come to Tai Chi Chuan classes and expect to be able to pick it up straight away, they can quickly become discouraged; these exercises, which are suitable for any age group, address that problem. Also because there are 18 individual exercises, the whole body gets a stress free workout.

The video is well-presented, having been mainly shot outdoors, although there is also footage of Ronnie teaching the exercises in an office which emphasises how user-friendly they are. There is plenty of repetition of each exercise which makes it easier for the viewer to exercise along with Ronnie and his class.

The video is available at a reasonable price and should prove popular. I would recommend it even (perhaps especially) to novices who should find it of value as an introduction to the Chinese internal arts.

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