Cheng Hsin - Principals of Effortless

Author(s): Peter Ralston

Martial Arts

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 Hsin "is 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.


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""The Principles of Effortless Power" is one of the most profound books ever written about the martial arts. It has completely changed my thinking about my own art, Aikido. Every time I read the book, it opens up entirely new areas of inquiry, possibility, and realization."
-John Stone, "Aikido in America"
"What Peter Ralston does remarkably well is to clarify what the classics have been trying to tell us, and to offer concrete direction on how to continue growing and become better in the internal arts. You can't fix Cheng Hsin on the wall with a pin, because, as you try, you realize that Cheng Hsin is the wall, and the pin, and the action, and the intent."
-Frank LaManna, "T'ai Chin Journal"

General Fields

  • : 9781556433023
  • : North Atlantic Books,U.S.
  • : North Atlantic Books,U.S.
  • : 0.34
  • : 31 August 1999
  • : 228mm X 152mm X 15mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Ralston
  • : Paperback
  • : 2nd Revised edition
  • : 192