The elephant stance

Didn't you know that the elephant stance has always been in the system? How could you have missed that? This was told to me in a telephone conversation recently, in a joking manner.
It seems one of our illustrious seniors has been teaching it a seminars, along with his now-famous tag-lines, "We've always done it", or "It's always been there." I'd never seen or heard of such a thing in kenpo but had to investigate because we DO have some movements in the system that are referred to as elephant trunk techniques.
I contacted the man who originally taught this senior. He said there was a person, not Ed Parker, who tried to get the "elephant stance" integrated into the system. It didn't happen. Neither did the attempt to add the "Iron Pot" or "Giant Walking" stances. So, no - there is no elephant stance in Parker kenpo.
You're dying to know what they are. I was told the elephant stance is a horse-stance, toe-out. Some systems do this and at least one calls it the mountain stance. Ed Parker didn't want your toes sticking out because they would get stomped if a guy contoured your shin. The Iron Pot resembled someone carrying a large, heavy iron pot, like Kwai-Chang Caine with the hot coals.
Sorry, can't see Ed Parker doing that. Last, the Giant Walking stance was moving as if your feet were sticking in mud. Yep, some systems do that, too, because they worked in rice paddies and your feet did get stuck in the mud. Ed Parker designed his kenpo for Americans who mostly wear shoes and walk on concrete.
If nothing else, I have learned to question what I am told is true. This stuff certainly falls into this category. I see the problem being that this senior is now out there teaching this stuff and the next generations are taking it in. He complains openly about the state of kenpo being so bad yet goes out and contributes to it in this manner. Is this what you do when you "run out of stuff" to teach? Start dredging up obscure items from some past class that died on the vine and using it as seminar material to make it look as if you have many more "secrets"? This particular instructor has taken to going to great lengths to create an appearance that he knows so much more than any other instructor and they all do it wrong. Some people may buy into it but from what I'm being told on the seminar circuit, more are catching on to his game. It's a shame really, he does know so much and understands it so well that he needn't do this, and that's what people are seeing, too.