This is true of (our) pak mei as well.
We have 8 'hands', styles of using your hands. Students naturally tend towards one type or another and you help them develop that, in an organic kind of way, being that it is what they are drawn towards.
After awhile, you become conscience of the other hands, the ones you are weak in and the ones you don't do at all, and you begin to work on those. i.e. some guys are good boxers, some are good grabbers, some are good avoiders, that kind of thing.
Guiding a student into their natural strength, then expanding from there is a one of the teaching lessons, and pretty universal at that....
Guangzhou Pak Mei Kung Fu School, Sydney Australia,
Sifu Leung, Yuk Seng
Established 1989, Glebe Australia