Richard Del Connor - Tai Chi Beginner: Yang Style Tai Chi Short Form of Shaolin Chi Mantis Class Reading Manual

Tai Chi Beginner

Class Reading Manual

(ebook edition)

by

Richard Del Connor

"Buddha Zhen"

Shaolin Communications

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Tai Chi Beginner

Class Reading Manual

(ebook edition)

by Richard Del Connor, "Buddha Zhen"

(Zhen Shen-Lang, Spirit Wolf of Truth)

Founder of Shaolin Chi Mantis and Buddha KungFu schools.
Founder of Tai Chi Youth nonprofit charity organization

Author of Buddha Kung Fu Student Manual and Tai Chi Intermediate.

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TaiChi Beginner Class Reading Manual
Yang Style of Tai Chi Short Form of Shaolin Chi Mantis
by Richard Del Connor, "Buddha Zhen"

Published by ShaolinCommunications

818-723-2769

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This book, or parts of this book, may not bereproduced in any form without written permission from thepublisher, Shaolin Communications.

The SCM logo by Buddha Zhen is the officialtrademark of Shaolin Chi Mantis.

Edited and typeset by Richard Del Connor.

Smashwords Edition

First edition CLASS READING MANUAL releasedSeptember 9, 2012.
Smashwords ebook ISBN: 978-1-57551-170-2

Author: Richard Del Connor
Chinese name: Zhen, Shen-Lang "Buddha Zhen"
English translation: Spirit Wolf of Truth

This book is based upon the Tai Chi Beginner - Yang Style Tai Chi Short Form of ShaolinChi Mantis book, published in 1992 by Shaolin Communicationsand written by Richard Del Connor, "Sifu O'Connor," This condensedversion of the original student manual excludes the 444 photos thatteach the basic kicks, punches, and SCM YogaRoutine. These remaining text pages are required of all ourTai Chi students to be read in class. Based upon two decades ofreading and utilizing this Tai ChiBeginner book, Buddha Zhen has created this new version forthe convenience of his students to use and read in class, in thesmall-screened digital book format.

Richard Del Connor, founded Buddha Kung Fu in2008, and the nonprofit organization, Tai Chi Youth, in 1996. TheShaolin Chi Mantis school is the original Kung Fu school created in1992, from which all other programs and styles are derived from.This is an official Shaolin Chi Mantis student manual.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Dedicated

to all my students who have been able totake the next step
past this book.

About the Author:

In 1992, when writing the first draft of thisbook, Tai Chi Beginner , Richard wasreferred to as, "Sifu Richard O'Connor."

In 1994, by the 2nd Edition of this book,Richard had been given the Chinese name of, "Zhen Shen-Lang,"(Spirit Wolf of Truth.) The Chinese refer to him as "Zhen Shifu."Americans called him, "Master Zhen."

In 2007, with his new upgrade to, "Buddha Zhen,"Richard wrote and released the Buddha Kung FuStudent Manual to launch his new Buddha Kung Fu schools andcurriculums. In 2008 he also launched the 12 Step 12Week Kung Fu Bootcamp which teaches the 12 Step Tantuiof Bruce Lee fame.

During the 1990s Richard wrote the Tai Chi bookseries:
Tai Chi Beginner - Tai ChiShort Form of Shaolin Chi Mantis
Tai Chi Intermediate - Taijiquan Qigong
Tai Chi Advanced - PushingHands of Tai Chi

He also wrote the Shaolin Kung Fu bookseries:
Shaolin Kung Fu Initiate -Buddhist Kung FuCandidate
Shaolin Kung Fu Beginner -WarriorAthlete
Shaolin Kung Fu Intermediate -ScholarWarrior
Shaolin Kung Fu Advanced -SpiritualWarrior

To complete the training of his students he alsowrote:
Zen Spirit Book

In 1992 Richard founded the Shaolin Chi MantisTraditional Buddhist Gongfu schools.
ShaolinChiMantis.com

In 1996 Master Zhen founded the Tai Chi Youthnonprofit education organization.
TaiChiYouth.org

In 1998 Zhen Shen-Lang founded the Shaolin Zensect of Chan Buddhism.
ShaolinZen.org

In 2008 Buddha Zhen founded the Buddha Kung Fuschools.
BuddhaKungFu.com

For more information about Buddha Zhen:
BuddhaZhen.com
BuddhaZ.com

For more information about Richard Del Connor:(Author, poet, record producer)
RichardDelConnor.com

For more information about books and productsreleased by Shaolin Communications:
shaolinCOMMUNICATIONS.com
shaolinCOM.com

Preface

The READING Manual Version

The original Tai ChiBeginner book has yet to be published with all of itsphotos. Since 1992, I have been photocopying the book and bringingeach of the 16 sections to class each week until all 16 sectionswere learned.

In 1994 I added 444 photos to the book. Theentire SCM Yoga Stretching Routine is detailed.The basic kicks and punches are detailed in black & white. It'sa great book. But I've yet to afford printing it. As the printertold me, "Your first book will cost you $11,000, but the one'safter that will only cost a few dollars each."

In 2005, I scanned and started editing all thephotos myself. I learned Quark XPress for typesetting the book...then my computer blew up.

In 2007, I got another computer, but with thelaunching of Buddha Kung Fu schools the following year, I had todevote 2007 to creating a new book, the BuddhaKung Fu Student Manual . A beautiful book with moreinformation in it than any student has been able to read and studyin less than one year.

In 2010, I dug out the original typeset sheetsof the Tai Chi Beginner book from 1994 andqueried my students, "Do I re-typeset the book or scan and printthe original pages?"