Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless Power

Peter Ralston

ISBN 10: 1556430485 / ISBN 13: 9781556430480

Published by North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California,, 1989

About this Item

First edition 1989, first printing, 1989 copyright, no previous printings listed. Trade softcover without DJ as issued. Condition near fine, square tight and clean book, spine very slightly creased, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, slight cornerwear, not a reminder. 8vo, XX + 168 pages.

Seller Inventory # 017278

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless Power
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California,
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556430485
• ISBN 13: 9781556430480
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.