 Eagle Claw <unk> <unk> Shum and Lily <unk> believe " <unk> Tong " ( the Cantonese rendering of his name ) was a monk who brought young Yue to the Shaolin Monastery and taught him a set of hand techniques , which Yue later adapted to create his <unk> <unk> ( Eagle fist ) . Liang <unk> states practitioners of <unk> <unk> <unk> believe Yue trained under Zhou as a child and competed to become China 's top fighter at an early age . Their lineage story dictates Zhou also took Yue to a " Buddhist <unk> " who taught him said qigong style . Northern <unk> Mantis Master <unk> <unk> says Zhou taught Yue the " same school " of martial arts as he did his Water Margin students and that the General was the originator of the praying <unk> technique " Black Tiger <unk> [ sic ] Heart " . Although Martial arts historian Stanley <unk> admits that Yue 's biographies do not mention boxing , he says " he [ Yue ] almost certainly did practice some form of bare handed fighting " to prepare for his weapons training . But he does not suggest who Yue might have learned it from . 
