T'ai chi ch'uan
Always written with a flair, Smith's numerous books and articles offer martial techniques, history, anecdotes, opinions, humor, and quotes from his wide-ranging personal training, research, and reading. Smith collaborated with his teacher Cheng Man-ch'ing on one of the earliest English taijiquan books ("T'ai Chi," Tuttle, 1967), and with Benjamin Lo on a translation of one of the earliest taijiquan books: Chen Weiming's 1929 book "T'ai chi ch'uan ta wen—Questions and Answers on T'ai Chi Ch'uan" (North Atlantic, 1985).