Possibilities for why futsan forms different to Chan Heung's family's??
Took this from another post:
Well even within the same branch or lineage, content can easily change and get lost with time and successive generations, as people might learn or remember things wrong, change and/or adapt, or simply forget and make-up missing or forgotten things. There is also possibility that as time goes by, people make up things to fulfill a need not satisfied already by what they have, or to take the place of something they did not inherit or learn from the previous generation.
That is why it is so important to DOCUMENT AND RECORD the contents and information through manuscripts and kuen Po as did Chan Heung and his family. So even if successive generations adapt what they learn, the more original material of the previous generation is still accessible through manuscripts/kuen po for the future generations, keeping the system relatively intact.
Not surprising if futsan did not have (??) kuen pos and written documentation, the further removed they are from Chan Heung's family, the less their material will resemble the Choy Lee Fut as passed on by its founder, Chan Heung.
You can see this even with forms of the same name. For example, sup ji kau da and ping kuen are names of forms found in Chan Heun's Choy Lee Fut, as is Tid jin cheung kuen. But ping kuen of futsan may be different to that of Chan Heung's family....why? Well not hard to understand the possibility given the possible reasons as outlined above, especially if they did not keep kuen pos, and as time goes on and the further they are removed from the family of Chan Heung, the chances are they will look even more different and unrecognisable except in name??
By the way, sup ji kau da, ping kuen, tid jin cheung kuen are only primary level forms. There are more advanced secondary level forms such as the bagua sum, and there are advanced tertiary level forms such as the choy lee fut animal forms.
So you don't have any choy lee fut animal forms??
And before you go about MAKING THING UP LIKE JONGS, things to consider??
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