There are many striking skill that exist in boxing, MT, TKD that doesn't exist in TCMA.
If we compare the Chinese striking art to the Chinese throwing art, old Chinese saying said, "There are 360 major throws. The number of minor throws are as many as the number of hair on a cow's body." If the Chinese throwing art can cover all throws, there is no reason that the Chinese striking art can not cover all striks. After all, the number of punch and kick are much less than the number of the throws.
Even if ancient Chinese understood that no one will be able to master all throws in his life time. people still spent their effort to make the Chinese throwing art "complete". It just seems to me that the ancient Chinese didn't do a good job for the "completeness" of the Chinese striking art. Instead of creating a comple TCMA striking system, our ancestors just created too many styles.
If we don't think about "my style does this and your style does that" instead of "how many ways that we can use our punches and kicks", the Chinese striking art may be able to complete oneday.
When you train your throwing skill, you don't care whether a throw comes from SC, Judo, or wrestling. Why do you always have "style" in mind when you train your striking art?
What's your opinion on this?