David, if you're happy to claim things such as that you have authentic lineage taiji, AND at the same time admit that your teacher just made up his taiji from a book, then at some point I suspect you're going to have to decide in your own heart if you're really being honest with yourself and others. For me, Shaolin Wah Nam is just the martial arts system your brother invented when he was 12 combined with the business plan of Scientology.
Actually, I just find it trivial. Anyway, if the horse stance looks like this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGuPxXj1I0 - than that's not really a big deal, is it?
David, as I think you understand clearly enough, I didn't go down to one of your classes to 'try' it - as I've already told you, I went down and asked the instructor, directly, why your school is so obnoxious about its clearly comically low level. I did this following a published invitation from your school to do so. You understand precisely what I'm telling you.
Well that's a good example of your ignorance, right there. There again, I understand 'Shaolin' to mean 'having some connection to Shaolin', lol - which you obviously don't.
What you mean by 'know about kung fu' is just that you compare things to your own school, and if they don't look the same, then they aren't kung fu. Most of us have been at that stage of development. It'll just take some kind of reality check to make you see that that's not quite the way to assess it.
Yes, but who are you to judge?
Well, you've admitted that its claim to any authentic 'lineage' is rubbish.
Ah well, plans are funny things. If I were you, I wouldn't get a Shaolin Wah Nam tattoo just yet.