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Wing Chun practitioner in Hong Kong, staff member of the Restaurant Workers Union and one of Ip Man's first students (1950).

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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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    Single source.
    “In May of 1950, Ip Man opened his first public class. It was a small group with a total of eight students. Leung Sheung, Lok Yiu, Lau Ming, Tsui Cho, Chan Kau, and Chan Sing Tao all enrolled.”
    — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Lok Yiu. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M69YKDGGYKJBERRCQSXJH3T9 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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@incollection{martialis_01M69YKDGGYKJBERRCQSXJH3T9, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Lok Yiu}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M69YKDGGYKJBERRCQSXJH3T9}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }

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