The systems in that article were probably 'Lian' systems. Lian systems come from a Chinese fellow from Yunnan - clearly a prototypical Southern method. Many were influenced by Wing Chun after the 1960's race riots in Malaysia.


Malaysia has a large and diverse martial arts scene - so find David's claim that Malaysia has noting of importance to be, well kind of silly. Just like North America, there is good stuff and a lot of junk. And a lot of what you see that is popular tends to be junk.

But you will find Silat, Chinese styles - everything from stuff that immigrated hundreds of years ago to modern wushu, and everything else as well - TKD, FMA, WMA you name it.

There are some really neat things over there, if you know where to look.