Quote Originally Posted by RenDaHai View Post

In the 90's there were many students and many schools, all lining the road to SHaolin Temple, all in close proximity. There was a lot of inter competition. Any form that looked cool got passed through the community very quickly, but the same version of it.

Instead of being old masters you got a situation where there were many young coaches in charge who didn't fully understand the stuff they were teaching. So it was more visual. They could see each other teaching every day and so the best looking versions of each form quickly got known by everyone.
This sounds like it might be the origin of the phrase "hao kan" spoken with dripping irony by better masters when they jokingly demonstrate the wrong way to do it.