Although I am not a Soo Bahk Do student I understand what Grandmaster Hwang, Kee was doing. He was rediscovering and developing Korea's martial art heritage. His Soo Bahk Do combines all these influences to become a uniquely Korean traditional and at the same time Hwang Kee's own style. You cannot judge Hwang Kee's Tai Chi Chuan abilities by his students today, but you can see the Tai Chi Chuan influences as well as the Shaolin Chang Chuan and Tan Tui influences in his newer Soo Bahk Do forms: Especially in the Yuk Ro and Hwa Sun Hyungs. People who had the privilege of actually having Grandmaster Hwang Kee work with them have all said that his energy (ki) was very dynamic and definitely beyond simple karate.