When someone asked Yang's son, a t'aichi master in his own right, why he and his father had taken all the toughness out of the style and left only the softer qualities, the younger Yang only smiled.
至於楊露禪改編太極拳，除了適應王公貴人的體質外，是否還有其他用心，或許可以從他兒子楊班侯的話中，略窺端倪。楊班侯也是太極名家，拳法精妙，聲名甚至凌駕他的父親。有人問他，拳法不是應剛柔並濟嗎？為什麼他們父子在北京教授的都是一昧純柔？