"Professor Cheng said that the Tai Chi Chuan he practiced was like a tripod: the form, push hands, and the sword. The goal of swordplay is to combine our Tai Chi quality of stable, heavy rootedness with rapid movement. Be as solid as a tree but quick as a cat. Work to develop a sense of root even when the form has you leaping off the ground. The ch'i sets the sword in motion. After that, like a hawk sailing on wind currents, let the sword ride the currents of gravity and centrifugal force."
- Wolfe Lowenthal, Gateway to the Miraculous, 1994, p. 26.
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