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Ip Man is a 2008 Hong Kong semi biographical martial arts film very loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun.

Grand Master Ip Man

Grandmaster Ip Man, originally called Ip Gai-Man, was born in Foshan China in 1893 to a wealthy merchant family and lived to the old age of 79, passing away in December 1972.

He began learning Wing Chun after 1906 under Chan Wah-Shun who was said to have been teaching out of the Ip Family Ancestral Temple at the time.
Ip Man became Chan Wah-Shun's youngest and last student, as Chan was old and nearing the end of his teaching. Around 1908 Chan suffered a stroke and retired, leaving Ip Man's kung fu instruction to be continued by his senior kung fu brothers such as Ng Jung-So.

After Chan Wah-Shun's death in 1911, Ip Man went to attend St. Stephan's College Hong Kong. Here he met his kung fu uncle, Leung Bik, who was the second son of Leung Jan. Ip Man apprenticed himself to Leung Bik learning Wing Chun for another 3 to 7 years and polishing his skills to the most advanced level.

Ip Chun (Ip Mans son) quotes his father as having said that he got a good foundation from Grandmaster Chan Wah Shun, but learnt sophisticated techniques from Mister Leung Bik.

Grandmaster Chan Wah Shun and Mister Leung Bik were both doing two different variations of Wing Chun. Through learning from both, Ip Man acquired complete mastery of Wing Chun.

Ip Man returned to China and developed an extraordinary reputation for his great Wing Chun skill. He even joined the Chinese army for a time. He did not however teach for many years. In 1942 his resources became severely depleted under the Japanese occupation of China and he took on some students in Yongan.

In 1949, Yip fled the Communist rise in China eventually arriving in Hong Kong. Where in 1950, he began teaching his Wing Chun for a living.

In Hong Kong he accepted his first batch of disciples in on a professional basis. Over his long teaching career in Hong Kong Ip Man taught many outstanding and famous students. The most recognized name being that of Bruce Lee whom Ip Man taught for 5 years before Bruce went to America.

Ip Man taught all of his students differently, depending on their natural ability, personality, understanding, how he felt Wing Chun would best suit them and the level of trust that he had with them. Hence all the Wing Chun's being taught around the world today vary from each other depending on which branch of the Wing Chun family tree you are learning from.

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