But most of the time we trained together. Professor Yip Man had no other choice but to bow to their pressure, but he told Bruce that he could train with me and Sihing Wong Shun Leung. Because racism was widely practised in Martial Arts School in Hong Kong, the art was not allowed to be taught to foreigners. The seniors got together and put pressure on Professor Yip Man and tried to get Bruce kicked out of the Wing Chun School.
They discovered that Bruce was not a full blooded Chinese because his mother was half German and half Chinese. By 1995, one year into his Wing Chun training, Bruce progressed very fast, and already became a threat to most of the Wing Chun seniors as the majority of them were armchair martial artists. As I was his Kung Fu Senior of many years, I was instructed by Grandmaster Yip man to train him. It was up to the senior students to pass on the Wing Chun lessons to Bruce.
In the old days, the master would never teach the new students. It was I who introduced Bruce Lee to Wing Chun School in the summer of 1954. We were friends since we were young boys.
Even though a lot of people associated with Bruce Lee or many claimed to have trained him or trained with him, I can safely say that not many of them were privileged to his secret training method.īruce and I grew up together. By Grandmaster William Cheung (Australasian Blitz Magazine)Įvery martial artist would like to know how and what made Bruce Lee such a devastating fighter.