Quote Originally Posted by PalmStriker View Post
Due to the offensive attack mobility of Southern Mantis I can see how it would compliment a more defensive art but would bond with the more offensive one. I would like to see what the old village Hung Kuen style may have looked like apart from the TigerCrane transformation of Wong Fei Hung. That would have been the practices on the Red Boats that influenced the development of WingChun.
Village HK has a couple of versions that I have seen, typically higher stances, shorter hands, things like that.
Styles evolve to suit the circumstances of whoever is passing it one at any given time.
It's not a question of better or worse or anything like that, just differences that happened to suit the occasions.