Interesting article I read on http://www.chinafrominside.com/ma/xyxy/xylhhistory.html

"Zhang Gen studied the art since early childhood and at the age of 15 became an accomplished expert. He was called "Stove for Scrap" because he used to fight with many bandits proficient in martial arts and either kill or cripple them so that they could never fight again (this was called "taking the art back" and was a common practice in martial arts circles directed against students who did not follow the rules of Wude - Martial Virtue - and became bandits)."

In America that's just called kicking a$$!

here we go again with Meynard's puerile view of the world. As you can read above this is his original work anything else is just plagiarism.