Spoke to Ip Man in a dream last night. He told me the OP is wrong.
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[QUOTE=PalmStriker;1228305]All I know is the last one had the door close on his foot and ankle swelled up. Pain lasted all night and next day.[/QUOTE]
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GrandMaster Ip Man and his 10 disciples
[QUOTE=PalmStriker;1227682]There must be a signed declaration for such an event, please post. Thanks! :):D:)[/QUOTE]
PalmStriker , Sorry to disappoint you , but there ’ s no signed declaration on this event , but I talked to Sifu Thomas Zane on this event he said that these 10 disciples know who they are , but that does ’ mt mean it really did ’ nt happen .
Infact Sifu Stanley Au and Sifu Robert Yeung was there too . Au Sifu is Sifu Thomas’ teacher and Sifu Yeung is a disciple of Sifu Wong Long Ching and the cousin of Sifu Wong Shun Leung .
Maybe GM Ip Man saw that 10 of his students was already gifted as he taught them WC and the rest of those students was ’ nt so gifted at all . So in a private moment told these 10 people as a group that they were each numbered as his 10 disciples and not to reveal to anyone about this private moment , otherwise trouble could result like for those students who did ’ nt become one of his 10 disciples , they would get offended , jealous or mad . Or GM Ip Man could ’ ve had a private moment with these 10 people individually , and told them the samething not to reveal to anyone about this private moment . Because how would you feel if GM Ip Man choosed 1 of your family member or your closest friends as 1 of his 10 disciples and did ’ nt pick you , would ’ nt you get mad , offended or jealous .
I would .
So as GM Ip Man himself began teaching and training his 10 disciples Wing Chun and as times went by began to give them permission to teach wing chun , probably Ip Man had asked his 10 disciples to go and start teaching and training the students who did ’ nt become his 10 disciples . So it was his 10 disciples guiding the not so gifted students into wing chun and really training them in a way that they themselves became good , and then gave them permission to teach wing chun to the next generation of people who really wanted to learn the art .
2 - of his 10 disciples Sifu Wong Shun Leung , William Cheung , and 1 - student the late Bruce Lee went out to challenged matches in HK , to see how good wing chun was against other styles of kung fu . In some fights Sifu Wong won and in some fights he lost , and analyzed how he lost it turns out that the WC techniques which sifu wong learned from Ip Man did ’ nt work , so sifu wong modified the Wc techniques he learned from Ip Man in a way that really worked for him , so that ’ s probably how he became known as the talking hands . Sifu Cheung inturn did the samething too he still kept Sil Lum Tao the same way , but he took out the twisting of the body from the chum kiu set , and still kept his bil jee the way it was traditionally taught and practiced by Ip Man ’ s students .
And the late Bruce Lee himself although only learning the 1st set of wing chun and learning the essence of wing chun from Sifu Wong and Sifu Cheung himself , and because he learned traditional kung fu in a chop suey way , his kung fu training was chop suey , instead of learning the complete system of the kung fu systems , he only learned 1 set of one system of the northern praying mantis system . This was probably before he began learning WC from Ip Man . And Bruce also learned different types of kung fu in general . Then when comming to the US
He began teaching his own version of kung fu , which you people already know about already . Which led into his personal art known as JKD .
That ’ s how wing chun spreaded around the world , Sifu wong and the late bruce lee had the same mentality as eachother , they both choosed techniques which worked for them . Sifu wong was wing chun and had 2 - disciples Sifu Gary Lam and David Peterson . And using what works for you , became bruce quotes and philosophy for his JKD .
Today in the year 2013 Wing chun is still evolving with sifus who continue to teach wing chun throughout the world . The 10 disciples and the students who
did ’ nt become Ip Mans’ 10 disciples eventually had their own lineage of wing chun , 2 - disciples of Ip Man had their own versions of WC like Sifu Wong and Sifu Cheung .
Now you people who read my topic post to this thread may either agree with me or disagree with me . But I stand by my topic post , 2 sifus was there talking to my friend Sifu thomas zane . So it really does ’ nt matter if you believe me or not .
But this story is true because I don ’ t tell fictional stories like some people on this thread do . Another thing it was Sifu Yeung told my friend that when bruce wqas in HK filiming enter the dragon , bruce went to see Sifu wong and gave bruce a 8 mm film on Wing Chun and everything bruce need to know about WC himself .
There is even diifferent branches of wing chun too , some students of Ip Man who became sifus under their own sifu , because it was Ip Man who taught them this very unique martial art , they decided to call it Ip Man lineage of wing chun , to pay respect and tribute to their late GM who died a long time ago .
It is my belief that TCMA Wing Chun may be devolving, Lance. I’m not so much into the who’s who of the 3 major lineages of Foshan as I am the consensus of the actual practices handed down and preserved by all the Wing Chun lineages. 
Exclusiveness belonged to those who stepped off the Red Boats many years ago with a unique kungfu style.
[quote=lance;1227659]1n 1956 , gm ip man choosed 10 of his students to be his disciples , the reason why he choosed this 10 students to become his disciples is because they were as good as eachother . They are lok yiu , leung sheung , chu shong tin , au keong ,
wong shun leung , ho kam ming , moy yat , william cheung ,wong kiu and leung ting . This information came from these 2 - friends i have and they in turn learned from au keung ( stanley au ) in hawaii .
Lance[/quote]
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