"Martial arts and health training, philosophy and meditation - Taijquan touches all areas of being." To be able to experience all these aspects, anyone interested should "drink at the source". Master Jan Silberstorff has been doing this for over 20 years and is considered a profound expert on all the aspects of Taijquan that it touches and trains. He was one of the first foreigners to study directly with the founding family of Taijquan, the Chen Clan, and became their first Western master student. This is the revised version of the basic work on Taijquan and some aspects have been added by the author. Additions and new chapters now make this book even more complete and groundbreaking in explaining what Taiji is and how it is practiced and led to mastery: Without myth, without secrets, but through centuries of cultivated and lived experience of a Tr.