How is this technique supposed to be used????

[hskwarrior]

It's not Chan family, it's the Jiangmen line from Wong Gong.

ok sure......

[Snipsky]

curious i had to check that myself. i didn't see any connection to fut san either about wong gong. here is some of his info

Wong Gong aka Wong Ming Sang, was born in 1928 in the city of Kong Moon (Jian Men), Guangdong province of China. He began his study of Choy Li Fut Kung Fu when he was 10 years old from the famous Choy Li Fut Great-Grandmaster Chan Cheong Mo. Besides his great Kung Fu skill, he is also an expert in traditional Southern Chinese Lion Dancing . Each year when the city had its annual city parade and on all the other celebrations for different occasions, he was the lead lion head performer. He was also one of the senior instructors of Chan Cheong Mo's Hung Sing Studios in Kong Moon city.

When he was 17 years old, he met Great-Grandmaster Chan Yen, the chief instructor of the King Mui Village's Hung Sing studio. Wong Gong and Chan Yen got along quite well and Chan Yen invited Wong Gong to visit the King Mui Village. After Wong Gong paid respect to the original Hung Sing Studio founded by Chan Heung in 1836, he saw and admired Great-Grandmaster Chan Yen's fighting ability and his Choy Li Fut skills. He decided to ask Chan Yen to take him as a closed-door student. Chan Yen believed he was a good martial artist and a good student and accepted Wong Gong's request. When Wong Gong was 19 and 20 years old, he taught two branches of Hung Sing Studios for Chan Yen in the neighboring villages of King Mui as the head instructor.

In 1949, when China turned Communist, he went to Hong Kong to work as a traditional Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist. Although there were too many traditional Chinese medicine physicians in Hong Kong at that time, he was very talented and made his living as a marine seaman and worked on the ships as a carpenter and maintenance engineer for many years. Since Hong Kong was handed back over to China in1997, he has practiced Chinese medicine as a full time profession until today.

Wong Gong learned all of Choy Li Fut's unusual animal forms and the founder's special weapon, the Nine Dragon Trident and other advanced weapon sets from Great-Grandmaster Chan Yen. Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong is his senior student and the primary representative of his teaching outside of China.

[Ben Gash]

"Chan Family" in these discussions means the Chan Yiu Chi line as practised by Chen Yong Fa and the Choy Lee Fut ancestral association.
There isn't some ****genous Chan family group that's everyone not descended from Jeong Yim. Wong Gong's line splits from Chen Yong Fa's at the first generation (his line is from Chan On Pak, not Chan Koon Pak).

[hskwarrior]

there are three main branches. Chan Heung. Jeung hung Sing. Tam Sam. everyone falls under one of these lineages. we all know chan family material isn't taught within Jeung Hung Sing's lineage. the idea of "chan family" Is not intended specifically blood line. if you are not buk sing or hung sing, you're chan fam. simple as that.

chan family= anynone connected to chan heung i.e. teaching same material, following same principals, approaches, concepts, philosophies, etc, etc.

[Ben Gash]

chan family= anynone connected to chan heung i.e. teaching same material, following same principals, approaches, concepts, philosophies, etc, etc.

Have you actually seen how diverse the various lines are?

[hskwarrior]

Have you actually seen how diverse the various lines are?

sure. they all still filter through chan heung or jeung hung sing or tam sam.

[Ben Gash]

sure. they all still filter through chan heung or jeung hung sing or tam sam.

Way to massively generalise in a massively inaccurate way.