CLF forms with multiple roads

[Kellen Bassette]

Relax HSK, I'm traditional Shaolin....nothing to do with Shaolin Do, I'm interested in all MA, particularly CMA...and I think CLF is a great art with great forms. If there was any closer than 4 hours to me I would probably train it.

Since there isn't, I work on my other styles and sometimes watch clips of training/forms/fights because I enjoy Kung Fu.

[Kellen Bassette]

I asked about the poems, because I wasn't sure if CLF uses them to record forms as Songshan and some other styles do, or if they were transcribed differently.

[Ben Gash]

The scripts weren't written by Chan Heung, they were written by his grandchildren.

[Shaolindynasty]

The scripts weren't written by Chan Heung, they were written by his grandchildren

Yes choy lay fut was already passed through 3 generations by this point

[Kellen Bassette]

Yes choy lay fut was already passed through 3 generations by this point

It's still cool that they did that...It's a pretty simple thing to do and it would have been nice if some of the other, older systems left a written record of their forms to the next generations.

It's not really a bad thing that forms evolve as time goes on, but it would be nice to have a real record of what they looked like from the first generations.

[CLFNole]

The Chan Family have written manuals for all the forms known as kuen po's. I have never seen one but I believe they consist of the Chinese characters for each movement and some have hand drawn pictures. Since we now have modern technology it's easier to just record each form in one's lineage. I have one for my lineage and it is good for reference every now and then.