I'm with Hua Lin Laoshi...
Could someone roughly translate 8 elbows to Cantonese? Maybe I've seen it but don't know it's English name.
To tell you the truth, I'm going to have to ask my Sifu about Lan Jeet and Baat Jow because I'm not able to get a mental image of what these forms are either.
how does the original 8 elbows relate
How does the original 8 elbows relate to the 8's in 8-step PM?
In 8-step there's an "8 elbows" too, but it's really only 8 elbows. There are other 8's such as 8 stances, 8 palms, 8 hands, 8 blocks, etc.
It may be (and probably is) that more advanced levels have more elbows, but I'm curious about how these all relate.