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FORM TWENTY: Flash Arm 59
FORM TWENTY-ONE: Turn and Deflect Downward, Parry, and Punch 60
FORM TWENTY-TWO: Apparent Close 62
FORM TWENTY-THREE: Cross Hands 63
FORM TWENTY-FOUR: Closing Form 64
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I have been privileged to study the martial arts from my youth with many fine teachers, some of them internationally celebrated, others almost unknown but equally elegant in their simplicity, integrity, and devotion to their arts.
I am eternally bound in love and gratitude to the late Grand Master Chiu Chuk-Kai, the eighth-generation master of the Chinese T'ai-Mantis system.
He is gone from this world after more than ninety amazingly productive years, but his benevolent spirit lives on in teachings that have blessed and benefited thousands throughout the world.
T'ai Chi, once an exercise practiced by only a handful of devoted disciples in China, has now become an internationally recognized and practiced art form. The international popularity of T'ai Chi has prompted me to create a text for beginners that would help familiarize them with this holistic art before beginning more formal instruction.