who is yip man?

Answer 1

Shienara said it correctly. No need to say anymore.

Answer 2

I don't know how much of the answers so far are accurate or misinformed.

My understanding.... Yip Man is the most noted Wing Chun kung fu masters. Most of the Wing Chun learned today comes from his lineage. He learned the art while living on mainland China and, due to political and socio-economic reasons, relocated to Hong Kong.

Yes, he was Bruce Lee's master in the study of Wing Chun though much of Lee's training was apparently overseen by senior students of Yip Man. (At least two noteable students who went on to teach claim this to be so.) As for Lee's departure from training, there are various stories as to why he left Hong Kong for America. Some say it was a friendly parting of ways, some claim at some point Lee left under bad conditions. However, it does seem a fairly accepted fact that Lee had not "completed" his Wing Chun training before leaving.

The problem is just as with Bruce Lee, the biography of Yip Man seems as filled with legend and myth as it is with historical fact.

Answer 3

he was bruce lee's wing chun master who showed he everything he knows before bruce left for america to continue his education. bruce returned to china to finish off his wing chun training but according to yip man's son he would show him because in american bruce had show the art to none chinese which was against chinese policy so bruce invented jeet kune do. as a you student bruce would have arranged fights rooftops in his first fight he got knocked down but yip man picked him up and forced him to carry on then bruce won and it gave him the confidence he need to become the icon is is now. yip man after he retired from treaching martial arts took on one student leung ting. ting then went on to create wing tsan which is a widely practiced style, he is also a successful publisher/writer and i think he has been im a few films

Answer 4

He is credited with bringing Wing Chun more into the mainstream of martial arts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Man

There's an article about his life but there's a great book about him too called "Portrait of a Kung Fu Master".

Yes, he taught Bruce Lee, but Bruce eventually stopped learning from him (about the time he was Chum Kiu) and went off on his own due to his teaching without permission.

Answer 5

To clarify a bit, it was Hong Kong. Not the China continent like the second poster made it sound. Though, Hong Kong wasn't a part of China at that time, belonging to England.

Answer 6

Bruce Lee's Wing Chun teacher in Hong Kong before he migrated to the U.S. and developed JKD.

Answer 7

You have a computer, do some research online and find out.