Chen Hung-chiu, another former Cloud Gate dancer, says that the looseness called for in taiji-daoyin is very different from the energetic stretching in Western dance training, in which "it is easy to use strength but hard to be relaxed, and where stretches do not necessarily imply looseness."
曾是雲門資深舞者陳鴻秋也認為，太極導引的鬆柔，跟西方肢體訓練的用力拉開很不一樣。