well, in my case, you're preaching to the choir. I always advocate looking for as many possibilities of applications of forms. It's the way I was "raised."
My first Kenpo teacher used to say,
"Make it work." If the technique didn't work for you, then find a way to make it work.
Sifu James Tsang taught Bak Mei Jik Bo Kuen to the class, then took the first move and said,
"Break into groups and find me five applications to this move."
When I asked Sifu Robert Chu, why Wing Chun didn't have claws, he demonstrated the huen sao and grab
-but emphasized the grab, articulating his fingers.
"Who says this isn't a claw?"
My own reading taught me that every move in a form has Da, Tek, Na and Suht.
A former teacher, who outweighed me by a hundred pounds, would show techniques that he with his size, could pull off on me, but I would never attempt against someone his size, so I worked to find ways to make it happen.
Tuhon Chris Sayoc taught to cut the wrist at long range, the brachial artery at medium range, and the carotid artery at close range-same technique, same movement.
I applied this to striking-limb destruction at mid range, strike to the head at close range-same technique.
Shuai Jiao neck surrounding is sow choy-
was it meant to be a throw in Hung-Ga? Who knows? Who cares?
It IS in MY Hung-Ga. If it isn't in yours, well, then you are at a loss.
Learning other styles, thinking outside the box, opened my mind to what I had before me.
preach on.
"My Gung-Fu may not be Your Gung-Fu.
Gwok-Si, Gwok-Faht"
"I will not be part of the generation
that killed Kung-Fu."
....step.