Posted by Lee W. on December 30, 1998 at 23:46:47:
In Reply to: Chen Style? posted by S. on December 30, 1998 at 22:07:25:
S,
the posts by Logic are NOT from me. I have been out of town and just saw them. This discussion, while having a potential for bringing some interesting ideas out, has been beaten to death too often for me to want to post anything on it (with the exception of making my abstinence from it most plain).
: 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.