In Robert W. Smiths Book Chinese Boxing Master and Methods it mentions a style called Fukien Eight S

[FIRE HAWK]

Fukien Eight Steps of White Crane Boxing? Anybody know anything about this style.

[Lost_Disciple]

Learned an SL Martin Green Dragon (not Steven Martin from Cali) form named 8 Steps of the Snake.

The book in Jackie Chan's Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin is called "8 Steps of the Snake & Crane".

Used to have that Robert W Smith book, but gave it away to my last sifu.

I think the truth about that style is somewhere in the middle of all 3. I doubt anyone legitimately practises it anymore, outside of maybe Taiwan.
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Just some thoughts from an ignoramus.

[Turiyan]

Can you scan the picture of that big hsing-i guy (forget his name) doing his interesting variation of the tsuan punch?

Turiyan gold, Brahmin caste, Ordos clan
"A Brahmin, coming into existence, is born as the highest on earth, the
lord of all created beings, for the protection of the treasury of the
(natural) law. Whatever exists in the world is (by right), the
property of the Brahmin; on account of the excellence of his origin
(primogeniture and eminence of birth) The Brahmin is, indeed, entitled
to it all" --C1V99-V100 The laws of manu