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Lai Yip Chi

Description

Wing Chun practitioner and bone-setter from a wealthy Foshan family, student of Lui Yu-chai. He first taught in public in 1941, without fees, mostly to working-class students.

Teachers (1)

Lui Yu-chai

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Probable

Single source.

The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

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Frederico Muñoz

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“They felt that their young son suffered from poor health so, at the age of thirteen, they retained Lui Yu Chai (a disciple of the now famous Chan Wah Shun) to strengthen and instruct their son.”

— Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info

Lineage

Wing Chun Lui Yu-chai Chan Wah-shun Leung Jan · 3 generations

Sources

Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Artslink info

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Lai Yip-chi. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M69YCGCWHXZQC69GDB864PTM - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.

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@incollection{martialis_01M69YCGCWHXZQC69GDB864PTM, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Lai Yip-chi}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M69YCGCWHXZQC69GDB864PTM}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }

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