Review: Does Not Quite Stand on Its Own for Novices
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
I was curious how a short eBooks would present the basics of Tai Chi.  Prescott Marshall does a very fair job with introducing the principles and preliminary needs of Tai Chi, even giving a well thought out written description of beginning forms with a handful of unfortunately not very illuminating illustrations.  And that is the main hit against Marshall's offering here.  A complete novice will be rather lost with just written descriptions of movements, pacing, stances, and visualizations.  However, if used in conjunction with a video course (there are plenty out there on youTube), the intrepid explorer of the benefits of Tai Chi as a low-impact exercise good for all ages will gain greater benefits from the eBooklet.One last hit against TAI CHI: A BEGINNERS GUIDE is the lack of a two-way linked ToC, making it necessary to manually flip around when looking for a particular section.  To clarify, one cannot simply click on a header in the main text to return to the ToC, which for older Kindle eReaders (like the Kindle Keyboard) is a bit of a hassle as they do not offer the convenience of a one touch back-key to return to the ToC.-----I regularly review eBooklets but do not allow the asking price of each eBooklet to influence my final review and rating, concerning myself with ONLY the content and format as compared to similar offerings, allowing the potential consumer decide if the price is worth the usually *very* short page length.