Do we all get some kind of prize if this thread gets to 500 pages?
A few thoughts on previous postings...
KC... the Wudang monastery is, according to legend, the birthplace of the internal martial arts. It's a Taoist temple... which has a different philosophy than the Buddhist underpinnings of the Shaolin temple. I haven't been able to find any reference to a "Shaolin Wudang" temple except in the "Shaolin-do: Secrets of the Temple" book, which is not the most reliable source I've seen. If you've got another source, please let me know.
Lamassu... you asked a while ago how SD looks different from TCMA. I'm going to cite one example that one can compare with current videos out there. The internal concept of 'silk-reeling', the spiralling of the body and limbs to aid the creation of 'fa jing' power. Although it is seems to be emphasized in Chen Taiji and Bagua, I think it is manifest to at least some degree in the external arts as well. It contributes to the fluidity and 'whipping' motions of TCMA. If one compares the following bagua clips, one can see that one practitioner has it... the other one doesn't.
Luo Jinhua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icwEuTHsDKM
M. Gary Grooms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCJzD7ZS