Posted by S. on December 30, 1998 at 22:07:25:
In Reply to: Re: When praise miscarries.. posted by logic on December 28, 1998 at 09:14:35:
Heidi Ho Lee,
Yang style is not Chen style done the wrong way. Why?
Because Yang style is not Chen style.
"Chen style" is Cannon Pounding done slowly in the 'forms'.
What Yang Luchan learnt from Chen Chang Hsin was not Canon Pounding.
Chang Hsin, according to Peter Lim's sources, was forbidden to teach
Cannon Pounding after his public defeat by Jiang Fa and, then
to make matters worse, his becoming a student of Jiang Fa.
Lim quotes a Chen historian as saying that what Chang Hsin taught
Yang Luchan was 'teacher' transmitted, not 'family' transmitted.
Just because someone taught in Chen village, and even at one time was a
master of Chen Cannon Pounding, does not mean that this was all he learnt
or all he ever taught.
Look at Chen Style, look at Yang style, is there any overlap?
Did Yang Luchan somehow after 20 or so years of study, leave there
with Cannon Pounding mastery and then invent Yang Style?
S.