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Leung Sheung

梁相
Born 1918
Died 1978

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)

  • 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)
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    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

Sources

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

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M69YKDGDJ1FYS23HDAVSWJWT
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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Leung Sheung. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M69YKDGDJ1FYS23HDAVSWJWT - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M69YKDGDJ1FYS23HDAVSWJWT, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Leung Sheung}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M69YKDGDJ1FYS23HDAVSWJWT}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }
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