IMHO,
1, His opinion shows his limitation on WCK. Thus, his words cannot be taken seriously.
A, as we discuss in the thread of Why WCK WCK, we know SLT/SNT, Chan Wah’s Siu Lien, Koo Lo’s San Sau, Cho Family’s 108 points SLT all has the “Crane and Snake” signatures deeply rooted. Thus, it is not Exclusive to YKS lineage.
B, Yes there are Southern Shaolin mix in the Red Boat Era however one always could differentiate them via the application strategy and power generation type. and if you look closely at Yip Man practicing his Wooden Dummy it is that Southern Shaolin like Weng Chun? check it out for yourself.
C, Speak about using every points of the body and close body, that is just the description of the “snake” body signature. Again, YKS is not exclusive because one could always take a look at Koo Lo’s Fung Family’s art.
2, Certainly Sifu Sergio put lots of time in this clip and infact very admirable. The issue Sifu Segio bring to the WCK community with this type of interview including the HKM stuffs is that it is like a TV commercial every body is promoting their stuffs and that will create confusion especially the Westener.
For example, with the Chan Wah’s Weng Chun lineage interview saying Yip Man doesnt learn the complete form and this interview on how Yip Man learn from YKS. Is that the facts?
Thus, let’s not be little Yip Man. We could said, by evidence, who learn what from whom. instead of make a general statement on some one.
Finally, I have an open suggestion to Sifu Sergio, and that Suggestion is to go back to all the Sifus he has interview and let all of them comment on the Crane and Snake signatures in Applications strategy and Power generation type.
[QUOTE=Pacman;1051776]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMlxI3-LFYs
in the video around 2:50 dr. cheung says that fung siu ching was probably the one who condensed his wing chun into the 3 forms (SLT, CK, BJ) that we know today.
he explains further that the WC that YM learned was from shaolin roots jee sim, etc. much different than the WC that YKS had learned.
around 4:40 he explains the many longer forms of the the southern shaolin based WC.
aside from the characteristics that dr. cheung mentioned in the video of YM WC’s shaolin roots, another characteristic i see is the upright erect body. much like what you see in karate, choi lei fut, hung gar, etc. which are all descended from shaolin
this is opposed to the hunched posture of YKS WC, which you will find in many soft styles.
i posted this because on another thread there was much discussion about this topic[/QUOTE]
