Apart from studying hard because he felt as if his life depended on it, his free-spirited personality and rule-breaking ways made Xiong Wei not content with being a tai chi teacher who merely imitated the forms of others. Instead Xiong brought together the strong points of several schools, practiced tirelessly, and created a sequence of outstanding forms of his own design.
除了苦學以求活命外，桀驁不馴、總是想破除成規的個性，讓熊衛不甘於只是一名依樣比劃的拳師，反倒集各家之長，提煉、變化出一套精華招式，自成一大家。