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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Bruce Lee takes after his Sifu, Yip man



By Derrick Ho


In order to use the Wing Chun, you would have to learn the whole system to understand it. (Siu lim tao, chum kiu, biu jee, mok yang jong, luk dim book gwun, and butterfly knives). If you understand everything, then you become a very skilled person. But you would NEED everything. This would not be a problem in a traditional world cause the student would merely stay with the Sifu and live with him and basically be a family with him. In that way, as long as the master doesn't die (before he has finished teaching) the wing chun skill would not be lost in translation and it would have an almost perfect transition to the next generation.


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