Ah, ok, I guess I should just read my old posts…
I think regimen is a more important factor than style, especially with Shaolin. Shaolin is such a big name in CMA and there are so many lineages, so don’t be so attached to that. It’s more important to get in there and train, and that’s going to be limited by your schedule. If there’s some great teacher that only teaches while you’re working, you have to make a choice. In the same vein, if there’s some great teacher that only teaches once a week, you might want to supplement, or just go somewhere else where you can get more lessons. That’s all I meant by that.
If you can train at Shaolin, go for it, but there are plenty of inauthentic monks there too. Don’t be attached to the monk thing either. There are more folk masters that hold authentic Shaolin, mostly because there are so many folk masters and so few monks.