Originally Posted by
lkfmdc
...But when you learn about Lion's Roar history, you learn the forms were never part of the tradition in the way they were perhaps for other lineages. IE in Lama Pai and related arts each "form" was associated with certain concepts, technique strings, strategies etc... the "exact sequence" wasn't really the point as much as the core knowledge
That being said, I can tell you that on several occassions, months, often YEARS later CTS corrected sets he taught us. Steve Ventura even "tested" CTS by messing up a sequence on purpose once to see what would happen
Inevitably though, and back to my point, when he would correct and remember were key sequences... essential concepts, not necessarilly every movement of the entire set
This attitude was the norm until fairly recently. It still obtains across much of the "Lion's Roar" spectrum. I have yet to see a set from another lineage that has the same form as those that I learned, even though the names are the same and the lineages share common ancestors. The sole exception to this is the basic training set, Luhk Lehk Kyuhn.
Before we (I) started worshipping the tradition with the idea of preserving these sacred logs of information few teachers bothered to distinguish the various sources for what they taught. It wasn't important. The CLF I learned is practiced with lama style basics and our lama is interspersed with ying jaau paai.
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