![]() ![]() Incredulous at the speed with which he had been countered, Ip requested a second duel and was beaten again, just as soundly. The man was Leung Bik, and he easily overwhelmed Ip Man. He went to Lai's house on a Sunday afternoon, and after exchanging brief pleasantries, challenged the man to a duel. At the time, Ip was undefeated so he eagerly accepted the challenge. Six months after moving to Hong Kong, a classmate of Ip's named Lai told him that a friend of Lai's father who was an expert in Kung Fu techniques was living with them, and had offered to have a friendly sparring match with Ip. Stephen's College, a secondary school for wealthy families and foreigners living in Hong Kong. ![]() At the age of 16, Ip moved to Hong Kong and there he attended school at St. Ip learned most of his skills and techniques from Chan's second eldest disciple, Ng Chung-sok (吳仲素). Due to Chan's age, he was only able to train Ip for three years before suffering a mild stroke in 1909 and retiring back to his village. Chan was 57 at the time, and Ip became Chan's 16th and last student. Ip started learning Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun in 1906 when he was 12. ![]() He grew up in a wealthy family in Foshan, Guangdong, and received traditional Chinese education, alongside his elder brother Yip Kai-gak, his elder sister Yip Wan-mei, and younger sister Yip Wan-hum. This is where Youssef will take you: the path to your center.Ip Man was born to Yip Oi-dor and Ng Shui, as the third of four children. The work of Wing Chun is to master our own center. Indeed, the center of everything is both a point of strength and weakness. In Wing Chun, the center is of the utmost importance. The coordination of the breath with the movements promotes the circulation of energy and blood, improves the metabolism and increases the resistance capacity.ĭuring practice, the mind should be relaxed, which quickly eliminates the fatigue of intellectual activity and at the same time promotes mental balance and increases strength. When practicing, breathing should be natural in order to nourish the vital energy (Qi) in the abdomen. It is a discipline defined by interception and deflection techniques based on the bio-mechanical study of the body, thus avoiding the constraint of the struggle of forces against forces.Įfficient, objective, dynamic, the Wing Chun reinforces the reflex system and offers a better coordination, thus allowing martial arts practitioners to cultivate self-control and to access the understanding of these arts and current forms of combat.īy practicing this art, practitioners can regulate the fullness and emptiness in their body, continuously improve the organic functions and therefore strengthen the body and improve health. The Wing Chun, “Boxing of the Radiant Spring”, is a style of Kung-Fu from southern China recognized as the science of fists. Youssef is today the 3rd generation of the Yip Man lineage in the branch of Sifu Didier BEDDAR and Sifu William CHEUNG. He teaches with all his benevolence, patience and humility to all his students and leads them to conceive their progression in the long term. With determination, he looks for pedagogical tools so that his students understand and progress. With great honor, Youssef reaches a very high rank in his discipline – the BLACK BELT – awarded by his SIFU Didier BEDDAR in Paris.ġ5 years of practice lead Youssef to open his school in France and then to travel around the world to teach the way of Wing Chun. In this art, each one advances at his own pace on his own path with humility and is part of a progression that is his own without judging the other. The Wing Chun Kung Fu, this philosophical fighting art, is a complete discipline that only sparingly delivers to its practitioners all the riches of its knowledge. Youssef says about his meeting with Didier Beddar: “I had finally found my destination, I accepted the path that would be long and I was ready to make the journey.” The meeting with Didier BEDDAR, Wing Chun grand master, 2nd generation of the Yip Man lineage who had instructed Bruce Lee, was decisive. He also spent many years following advanced training at Mount Song in Shaolin (Tagou and Fawang schools). He then turned to traditional Shaolin Kung Fu style. Until the age of 23, he received a very eclectic initiation and teaching, from Tai Kwan Do to Karate, which only provoked in him questioning and doubts about the meaning of his practice. From then on, his passion guided him towards a quest for the perfect master who could initiate him. He long road that Youssef decided to undertake on the martial way begins at the age of 5 years. ![]()
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