What lineage is this kicking form
Hi everyone,
I was just wondering what lineage this kicking form comes from? One person I know from Hong Kong also learned this form about 40 years ago (almost identical 95%) but not from the Yip Man -> Lee Shing -> Austin Goh lineage or even Yip Man -> Lee Shing. He was also told at the time of learning to keep this form a secret (same as stated on the Austin Goh website). These days everything is out in the open of course. When I learned the wooden dummy in 1980 even the teaching of that was a bit secretive.
Some Lee Shing history states he learned another brand of Wing Chun so perhaps that form came from a different lineage than from Yip Man?
"Grandmaster Lee Shing was born in 1923 in Hoxan in Southern China. He first studied Gulao (Pien San) Wing Chun at an early age in mainland China under his first teacher Fong Yee Ming, who himself had learnt from Wong Wah Sam who had learnt from Leung Jan. Lee Shing was a keen disciple and was inspired to research the different styles of Wing Chun, He therefore, in his research, went on to study under Fung Sang who was one of the central points of Pien San Wing Chun, having studied under his father Fung Lim and his uncle Koo Siu-Lung (both students of Wong Wah Sam). He then went on to learn from the famous Kung Fu Master Ng Jung So. " http://www.josephleewingchun.com/LeeShing.jsp.
I am just interested in the history, it doesn't matter about the form or who it comes from just curious. Most people incorporate those kind of kicks shown anyway. Some Yip Man students seem to know or have developed the three (or more) pole kicking dummy form too while others never bothered with it or were taught it. Still all the form movements that I have seen are but variations of things in the wooden dummy form and those movements (at least the hand actions) are from the empty hand forms. All of those in turn are manifestations of the core ideas and principles of the art. Here are the clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rOAbqbA3wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smjucpF_wms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR0d0Q3iRws
Ray
Victoria, British Columbia, Wing Chun