His Wushu coach and mentor, Chang Shi-po, who had trained him from an early age and was then teaching at Taipei Physical Education College, suggested that there was no harm in changing his path in life, switching from Peking Opera to Wushu. He encouraged Peng to apply to TPEC, rekindling Peng's dream of being a college student.
直到早年曾教過他、當時在台北體育學院擔任武術教練的恩師張世博建議他，不妨「轉換跑道」，從京劇改行走武術，並鼓勵他報考北體，才再次燃起他當大學生的夢想。