by PM » Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:26 pm
whose set is closer to Wong Feihung?
historically:
- Mok Gwailaan was 16 when she has married Wong Feihung
- Lam Saiwing was with Wong Feihung more than 20 years.
- Wong Manchoi (Wong Moon Toy) has studied both under Wong Biuhung (Wong Feihung's/Wong Keying's Hung Kyun and black tiger claw system) AND Lam Saiwing. he is a very well known and respected person within our family (his bio is btw. icluded in recently published translation of Lam Saiwing's Memorial Book)
i have seen many, many different Hung Kyun lineages both in Hong Kong and mainland China. based on my extensive research i think that fu jaau paai's fhsyk is definitely influenced by original hak fu paai. it has more claw lin gung in the sets, different flavour etc.
so or so, i find kind of useless to argue whose fhsyk is original, modified, better, worse. masters of old did not care about the purity of their art, but functionality. one of my friends is a master of fu jaau paai and his stuff works, his fingers are like steel hooks. being friends who love TCMA we obviously spent more time on discussing and comparing various aspects of our arts then arguing whose fhsyk is better or more original.
soooo, last but not least: so many not very nice and useless words in this thread guys (Jmoon07, Rising Crane, laukarfei... ) - common gentlemen!
Pavel Macek