When I am with my Sīfú 師父, Ip Chun 葉準, I do not just study his skill, I am also interested in his stories. What is better than hearing stories about Wing Chun that happened when I was not there and some even before I was born! Stories like this are history and they are Ip Man Sī Jóu 葉問師祖 Wing Chun history.
When my Sīfú was young, only seven years old he began studying with his father Ip Man. However, he had to stop his studies because his father was not around as much as he was working, and then he moved to Hong Kong. When Sīfú was 36 years old he also moved to Hong Kong and lived with his father. He then carried on his Wing Chun studies. Sīfú always says he is not generally interested in Kung Fu 功夫 but enjoys reading Chinese literature and enjoys traditional Chinese music and Chinese Culture. When he moved to Hong Kong, he did some jobs, like bookkeeping where he had to keep records of income and expenses for his employer. In the 1950’s in Hong Kong, you did not need qualifications to do bookkeeping. Back then, accounting and taxes were not regulated tightly as Britain did not take Hong Kong seriously, so Hong Kong was very corrupt, and the Hong Kong triads tried and corrupt policemen to control how things ran.
Grandmaster Tse’s Wing Chun Note 518
If we take a close look at all three of these forms, we will see that Bīu Zī is in all of them.
Grandmaster Tse’s Wing Chun Note 517
The hardest part of the training is holding the leg up and keeping the position. As we get tired, the leg will start to drop.
Grandmaster Tse’s Wing Chun Note 516
When we kick, we do not just consider the kicking leg; we need to maintain our balance and not move the upper body very much.
Grandmaster Tse’s Wing Chun Note 515
Before we can use the punch, we must practise connecting the whole body, from the stance to the waist and then through the body,
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