Description

Wing Chun teacher in Hong Kong and staff member of the Restaurant Workers Union, Ip Man's first official student in Hong Kong (1950). He opened his own school in the mid-1950s with his teacher's blessing.

Teachers (1)

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  Ip Man

  swordsWing Chun Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

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

  (1950)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Single source.

  “The group was impressed enough with Ip Man that they asked him to teach a course at the union, and Leung Sheung became Ip Man’s first official student in Hong Kong.”

  — 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 Ip Man ← Ng Chung-so ← Chan Wah-shun ← Leung Jan · 4 generations

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