Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11162 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-05-10
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Synopsis
Featuring a step-by-step guide to the 24 Forms of the Tai Chi. All movements are demonstrated in close-up.

Customer Reviews

Terrible - content okay but so unwieldy!
Be warned - the format is not dvd, it has more in common with video. So the teaching part is a single section and you have to run through it again and again to find the form that you want to focus on.

Any benefit derived from the dvd will be outweighed by the frustration of trying to locate a particular section.

I should have known better!
I should have known better than to buy a "How to" DVD, they all tend not to live up to their claims: this is no different.

While Dr Paul Lam is clearly an expert exponent of Tai Chi, he is not a natural teacher and the DVD does not reflect what the instruction blurb on the cover stated and the process to follow.

Trying to follow the on screen movements was not easy, as Dr Paul Lam only gave some instruction in the middle of the exercise and it was not clear what the exercise was and it did not follow the advice on the pack.

However, the main problem for me, is the lack of functionality in the DVD, it appears clear that this was a video and just copied onto a DVD, with no menu skip facility to skip forward or back, to the section of the DVD you wish to get to, to follow the suggested approach of Dr Paul.

Disappointing, though expected. Don't waste your money on new copy of this DVD, as I suspect many people who purchased this DVD new, would be happy to sell on second hand - off to unload my copy on eBay

Very good DVD
Of course it would be much better to learn Tai Chi from an expert teacher. But this DVD makes its job very good. Forms are explained in details and its language is quite clear. Although my native language is not English, I can understand almost every sentence. I definitely recommend this DVD. Great work!