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He became a teacher of the martial art of Wing Chun when he was He had several students who later became martial arts masters in their own right, the most famous among them being Bruce Lee. Ip started learning Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun when he was 9 [ 4 ] or At the age of 16, with help from his relative, Leung Fut-ting, Ip moved to Hong Kong and there he attended school at St.

Stephen's College , by then a secondary school for wealthy families and foreigners living in Hong Kong. At the time, Ip was undefeated so he eagerly accepted the challenge. He went to Lai's house on a Sunday afternoon and, after exchanging brief pleasantries, challenged the man to a duel.

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The man was Leung Bik and he easily overwhelmed Ip Man. Incredulous at the speed with which he had been countered, Ip requested a second duel and was beaten again, just as soundly. Discouraged by his defeat, Ip left without a word and afterwards was so depressed that he did not dare mention that he knew Kung Fu. A week later, Lai told him that the man he had fought was asking after him.

Ip replied that he was too embarrassed to return, at which point Lai told him that Leung Bik had highly praised his Kung Fu techniques and that he was the son of Leung Jan , who trained Ip's master, Chan Wah-shun. Ip proceeded to train with Leung Bik, [ 10 ] until Leung's death in Ip returned to Foshan in when he was 24 and became a police officer there for the Nationalist government.

Chow Kwong-yue was regarded as most talented of Ip's Foshan students, but he devoted himself to trade and abandoned the martial arts. It is rumoured that he had joined the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in its academy in Guizhou in , after which he would have returned to Foshan as an undercover intelligence officer.

However, the veracity of this has been disputed.