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CharlesDaCosta;1064819]One thing we do know for sure is that around "that time" (These styles were famous) the key players actually used each others techniques, and this was to a large extent. Therefore it would not matter if L and CLF came from the same system. They had merged on numerous points thus making them appear to be the same style to the untrained eye.
This makes sense. The idea that these systems merged to some degree is easier to accept than a family tree/common origin model.
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I had spoke with a key player in PH. He told me my stances were too high. They should be more like Hung Gar stances. HG I thought ... how could this be, the Lama's system should have been a Chan Quan style. After all, it was supposed to have come from the north and our principles seem more northern ...
Well, do others agree that LS stance work should be more like HG...
No. Quentin Fong told me that most Bak Hok people originally trained in Hung Kyuhn and this influenced their style of teaching. He said that he was fortunate to have learned from Tang Jak Ming who learned only Ng Siu Jung's Bak Hok because it was a very "pure" form of the art. The stances tend to be high and just a little wider than shoulder-width.