Description

Wing Chun teacher, student of Ip Man from 1956 in Hong Kong and friend of Bruce Lee. He left Hong Kong for Australia in the late 1950s; his 1991-1992 Inside Kung Fu articles describe Ip Man's school.

Teachers (1)

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  Ip Man

  swordsWing Chun Probable

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  Single source.

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

  (1956)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Single source.

  “In 1956, a year of important developments, the seemingly nomadic Ip Man moved his school to a new location on Lee Tat Street in Yau Ma Tei. This was the actual gym that greeted such notable new students as Bruce Lee and Hawkins Cheung.”

  — 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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