Is Shun Di really drunk?

"Style"'s probably the wrong word. "Form" is probably better. As
I pointed out, Drunken Boxing is not a stand-alone form. Even in films
(and I never saw LEGEND OF DRUNKEN BOXER or whatever the Chan film is)
Drunken Boxing is used as a tool, a device, a confusion tactic to counteract another
form, but rarely exclusively.

A "style" pertains to any particular fighter, how he is built, how he moves,
what his capabilities are, speed, power, on and on. The Drunken Boxing form
can be a kind of back-up to any martial artists skill level, giving him a defensive
evasive series of tactics, just in case he was to find himself in a death duel with
another forms master (highly unlikely these days). Most of the martial arts forms
cannot match the pure untrained brutality of the street-fighter, and so the
fighter must engage many systems that can be imprinted into his physical memory and
used for street situations. Tae Kwon Do hand strikes combined with American Boxing
and jujitsu grappling techniques, I mean the variations depend on the person
doing them. You apply what is needed.

 

just a thought here, Every form of martial art has tool's devices' and tactics to counter other forms, its basic, what use would it serve it can't do these things, and yes Form will be more appropriate than style, as style can be differentiated on the same form, Example, the form of Jeet kune do, where both Jacky and Sarah has different Styles of using the form.