Foshan MYJ form
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This is not "the" Foshan Muk Yan Chong" set, but "a" set...
If Gai Gung (Lun Gai) did indeed teach this particular set to the gentleman in the video sans the admitted modifications, it is important to realize that Gai Gung's set deviated from what Gwok Fu, the most prominent of Yip Man's Fatsaan students, passed on. Just like Gwok Fu, Gai Gung had been a student of Yip Man, but after the class at Wing Ngon Rd. in Fatsaan had been terminated in 1944, he stopped training Gung Fu and focused on work. It was only much later, when he reconnected with Gwok Fu in the 1960s that he took up practising again. He stated that he had not much recollection of what he had learnt, so Gwok Fu offered to re-teach him. Gai Gung went on to teach many students and was basically the only accessible teacher of Yip Man's Wing Chun to foreigners through the Fatsaan Jing Mo Wui, whereas Gwok Fu was in a rather hard to reach village (at the time) and unlike Gai Gung rather selective with whom he would teach. Since the mid 1960s his students, while formally being his, were de facto mainly taught by his son. Gai Gung was very approachable and good friends with (some of) Yip Man's students from HK and also Yip Man's sons, whom he knew already when they hadn't left for HK yet. Gai Gung developed his own versions of things and the form demonstrated in the video seems to be a mix of the HK version of the dummy and what he taught his students in Fatsaan and practiced himself - which explains the length. The set passed on by Gwok Fu is much shorter - while it has 15 sections, each one just consists of relatively few movements. Most of the set is pretty close to what YM demonstrated on film, the rest is best described as the same techniques just arranged differently.
