Originally Posted by Sal Canzonieri
Obviously the 13 Kania sets have been condensed into 10 easier to remember units.
And, this was done before they reached Shandong, because the one place left in Henan that still practices these sets says that they were condensed into 10 sets before they left Henan!
Who says this? Are they credible? Is what these folks, who practice Kan Jia Chuan say, the truth and nothing but the truth? Is their testimony sufficient evidence to suggest that the sets were condensed later and not the other way around?
A school or a person clambering for the prestige of having the earliest version of Shaolin Chuan that came out of the temple back in the 1700's might falsely claim that their's was the original pre-condensed material. Or maybe there's the possibility that they didn't even really know. I'm not making any accusations here. I'm just asking: is this really sufficient evidence to close the debate on this issue?
Last edited by Siu Lum Fighter; 03-03-2009 at 10:38 PM.
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