Ip Man
Hong Kong martial artist (1893-1972) · China · Died at 79
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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.
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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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