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Yuen Kay-san

阮奇山
Born 1887
Died 1956

Also known as

Yuen Kay San

Description

Wing Chun practitioner in Foshan from a wealthy family of pigment manufacturers, friend of Ip Man. He never taught a class; his only known disciple, Sum Nung, spread his line.

Students (1)

  • Sum Nung
    swordsWing Chun Probable
    Probable
    Single source.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    Single source.
    “His only known disciple was Sum Num, originally a student of Cheung Bo’s, whom he adopted as his protégé later in life.”
    — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info

Sources

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M69YCGD1ZB1C55QR6G5RBKET

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@incollection{martialis_01M69YCGD1ZB1C55QR6G5RBKET, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Yuen Kay-san}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M69YCGD1ZB1C55QR6G5RBKET}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }

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