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WING CHUN SIFU IPMAN GRANDMASTER Sifu Ip Man was born in 1893 and lived in Fat Shan China where he started his Wing Chun training at the age of 6 under his Sifu Chan Wah Shun who was taught by the legendary Leung Jan. Sifu Ip Man studied Wing Chun for 6 years until Chan Wah Shun passed away in 1905. In 1909 whilst studying at St. Stephen College in Hong Kong, Sifu Ip Man, through classmates, came to know Leung Bik, the second son of the legendary Leung Jan. Sifu Ip Man studied with Leung Bik for about 4 years. Many years passed, by which time Grand- master Ip Man had returned to Fat Shan where he married Cheung Wing Sing and had four children, sons Ip Chun, Ip Ching and daughters Ar Sum and Ar Wun. In 1949 Grandmaster Ip Man left China for Hong Kong. I was around May 1950 that Grandmaster Ip Man first started to teach Wing Chun. The first class opened with only 8 students, but it was not long before more schools were opened and the name of Wing Chun spread throughout Hong Kong. It was between 1955-1957 that one of Grandmaster Ip Man’s more famous students Lee Siu Lung (Bruce Lee), started to learn Wing Chun. Sadly Grandmaster Ip Man passed away at his home in 1972, he was 79 years old.
