Originally Posted by
GeneChing
They are very similar, but tantui usually interprets it as fairly linear and basic. I've seen a lot of variations with the Songshan interpretations, most of which start with the fundamental tantui application, but then spiral off into all sorts of different interpretations. Which is not to say that tantui practitioners don't go into more complex ideas, it's just that I see more pronounced variation in the Songshan practitioners because I see more of them on a regular basis.
Recently, my disciple brother Xingda showed me a variation he picked up at the Shaolin Cultural Center at Temple City that played it as a back fist.