Ninety-year-old Huang Yu-chen, who has been doing taijiquan for over six decades, remarks that "for people today, exercise mostly means running and jumping. It's not bad, and exercises the body just the same, but jumping about leaves you agitated and restless, and when the qi hits the brain you get giddy, whereas taijiquan quiets your heart and lets the qi settle downwards."
今年已九十高齡，練拳超過一甲子的黃玉振就指出，總歸起來「現代人的運動大多在跑跳，跑跳不是不好，一樣是活動肢體，但跳使人心浮氣躁，氣一衝腦，人就會昏，打太極拳會讓心靜下來，氣向下沈」，他說。