Originally Posted by ntc
I am kinda thinking along the same line.... especially because of the southern China roots via FutShan. I can actually see it resembling the Hung Gar style, and possibly even in the very beginning more of a hard style than a soft style. If it did in fact have roots tracing back to Shaolin, then it is very likely that there would be some of the animal aspects in it as well. You see a lot of snake and crane techniques in modern day WC, so there is also a chance that these two animals were involved in the original WC. They are among the animals in the Hung Gar style as well.