If we take the fighting system away from the Tai Chi Chuan discipline, we lose all these additional benefits. These opposites balance one another. We add variety and also complete a picture. We don't limit ourselves to one side or one aspect. The two sides constitute a marriage of efforts.
Some martial artists stress only the fighting side of the discipline.
They thus sacrifice their spiritual health to be become fighting machines. Their bodies become toughened and their hands and feet lose sensitivity. This type of training produces much physical and spiritual injury. Their physical injuries are attended to. Their spiritual injuries are ignored.