Originally Posted by
Pork Chop
Those guys who fought trained very similar to the Thais, with heavybags, sparring, noncompliant clinch work, and drills. The only differences were in technique and more emphasis on takedown work.
They did not train compliant partner training, forms, gungs, and iron palm work.
They did not hold static postures, they did not wake up every morning to do qigong work, nobody pulled off any intricate application from a form, and they did not even work bridging.
They were san shou guys and I'm intimately familiar with san shou training.
You're being real cute with semantics, but i promise you that they do not train what anybody would think of as "shaolin".