Originally Posted by
Ken Cheng
This leads back to an issue that I had brought up once before, but never got a response upon: why is it that some students end up with such radically different martial arts from those practiced by their teachers? For example, the Golden Wheel Monk was all about Lung Jeung Bor Yeh Gung and those metallic wheels, but Dat Yee Ba and Fok Do's martial arts were nothing like his.
From Chapter 37 - Gratitudes And Grudges Over Three Generations:
Suddenly Da’erba shouted and threw his 50-jin rod towards
Hou Du and it flew swiftly and fiercely. Hou Du was shocked as he has
never seen Da’erba use such a move before. He thought, “He has not won
after so long, has he gone crazy?” and quickly jumped aside. Da’erba
rushed up and hit the rod with his palms and it changed directions,
following closely behind Hou Du. Hou Du was greatly surprised, then he
realized that Da’erba had followed their master for over 10years and
must have learned some advanced martial arts. This rod move was derived
from Fawang’s Five-Wheel techniques and when Hou Du saw the ferocity of
the rod coming towards him and knew he could not take the blow. He slid
away, causing the rod to miss his head by two inches.
Da'erba must have learned some darn good qinggong to be able to catch up with that staff after throwing it. Either that, or Jinyong is sloppy again in his fight visualisation.