[To Captain Li] You know Captain Li, we martial artists are energetic. Sometimes we might be a bit too loud but doesn't mean we're not civilized.
Hong Kong martial artist (1893–1972)
The Wing Chun master who taught Bruce Lee — a lineage that turned a regional Chinese fighting style into a global phenomenon.
Born Ip Kai-man on 1 October 1893, he began teaching Wing Chun at twenty, spending decades refining a martial art that might have remained obscure. His school in Hong Kong produced a generation of fighters who carried the style forward, but one student reshaped the equation entirely: Bruce Lee, whose fame retroactively spotlighted the teacher. Ip Man died on 2 December 1972, his legacy sealed not by his own celebrity but by the supernova success of the young man he'd trained.
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[To Captain Li] You know Captain Li, we martial artists are energetic. Sometimes we might be a bit too loud but doesn't mean we're not civilized.
[To Kam Shan-chu] No men are afraid of their wives, they're only men who respects their wives.
[To Kam Shan-chu] Good kung fu does not depend on age or sex but on how well you fight.
Although martial arts involves armed forces, Chinese martial arts is Confucian in spirit. The virtue of martial arts is benevolence.
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