I have several Tai Chi video's, but this is my favorite for a good work out.

This is a great DVD. I highly recommend it. Scott uses a mirror image teaching style, which is easy to follow. And you will learn several moves followed by 2 workouts that use the moves. Once you get the moves figured out you can skip the educational part and go straight to the workouts by using the menu selection. Also, Scott added about 6 additional moves in a special feature section. Very well done video!

I tried a Tai Chi class and was very frustrated by an instructor that tried to do too many moves at once, but I actually got it figured out with the help of this DVD. Now I'm looking for the next one Scott does so I can learn more.

Don't waste your money on the Joe Bond DVD. You'll spend 45 minutes on 1 move and not know anything that feels like Tai Chi. Plus the guy seems really stuck on himself.

When I started to play this dvd instead of the tai chi workout I was expecting I instead found rap videos!?! I have no idea what happened.

Scott Cole does an amazing job of instructing his viewer through specific tai chi moves, and this was the first tai chi DVD I actually used over and over for a while even. This DVD is without a doubt perfect for beginners, just like the title suggests. However, after buying almost every tai chi DVD of Scott Cole's, i realize his teachings are really just a cheesy "dumbed-down" version of true tai chi. I'll explain why in a bit.

But before I start, I just want to add that I've read a lot of reviews commenting on his "new age" babble, but this is not new age at all, this is almost ancient knowledge, and it has an approach coming from however many years ago. But the roots of its beliefs are most definitely real.

Anyways, The DVD will be able to teach you every move they throw at you, and it will be a very fun experience as Scott Cole is an enjoyable person to learn from. However, the amount of material on the DVD is surprisingly low. After quickly finishing this DVD, I went straight to almost every other tai chi DVD of Scott's, it didn't take me long to find out that almost every DVD of his are almost all the identical. Yes, there are some new moves on each DVD, but there are so many DVD's in his "collection" that it starts to get pretty expensive if you wish to learn more. Your better off getting something with all the traditional 24 or 48 postures (or taking a class even), it may not be as easy to learn, but you'll have the entire tai chi database as reference rather then only a sliver of it. "Simplified Tai Chi Chuan" by Master Liang, Shou-Yu will be a good DVD/book if you really want to get serious about tai chi.

You must understand that traditional tai chi consists of either 24 or 48 postures that go through in a specific order, and when you watch a tai chi master, such as Master Liang, and see the beauty of the moves together, you will understand why. It's not in some strict rule book, as each of the moves are really individually powerful in their own way, but in traditional tai chi each move sets into the next one, so it really becomes a chain of moves, which any master will tell you is really the focus of tai chi, even Scott talks about it. Now in every DVD of Scott Cole, he picks specific moves out of the posture list and kind of teaches them one at a time. So his approach to tai chi is really: move #1, returning position, move #2, returning position, move #3, etc. To me, this seems to destroy the entire purpose of tai chi. However, I would be wrong to say that there is zero benefit from this DVD. Yet you may like his approach, to summarize it up, he takes tai chi and puts it into a kind of aerobic class style (one and two and three and four... GOOD!). This really becomes apparent on his "tai chi for weight loss" DVD.

OVERALL: If you haven't even touched tai chi before and your curious to its benefits, this DVD is absolutely perfect. If after finishing this DVD and your interesting in learning tai chi as an art form, do not buy any other Scott Cole DVD. I had to learn the hard way. On top of not learning very many extra moves, you will be stuck in his approach to tai chi, which, in my opinion, is extremely limited. I gave it 4 stars, because I have to rate this specific DVD, not the series. This DVD does everything its supposed to.

I bought this after using the Scott Cole's Tai Chi for Weight Loss. This was too basic for me and my daughter after using the weight loss DVD. It would be a good beginners DVD if you have never done Tai Chi before. It explains the basic moves in a manner that is easy to follow. If you are looking for a 'workout' and have done Tai Chi before, I would suggest Scott Cole's Tai Chi for Weight Loss.