Why People Wanted Bruce Lee Kicked Out Of Ip Man's Kung Fu School
During his time at Ip Man’s kung fu school, Bruce Lee faced several attempts to get him expelled. Ip Man, who was known as Lee’s kung fu master, was a well-respected Hong Kong martial artist. The Wing Chun grandmaster was also the focus of the four-movie Ip Man franchise starring Donnie Yen.
During the many decades Ip Man practiced Wing Chun, Ip created a lasting legacy by running a school and teaching kung fu to an untold number of people throughout his life. A long list of Ip’s kung fu students went on to become Wing Chun grandmasters and important figures in the martial arts community. But his most famous student was without question Bruce Lee, who became a martial arts legend without ever attaining the official grandmaster rank. Instead, Lee used the skills he had cultivated at Ip’s school to create his own system of kung fu, which is now known as Jeet Kune Do. But while Lee only spent a small portion of his life as Ip’s student, this period is still considered crucial to his development as a martial artist.
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Though the 15-year-old Lee’s talents were recognized from the very beginning of his Wing Chun training, his enrollment there wasn’t welcomed by all. William Cheung, a friend of Lee’s and the person who introduced him to Ip Man in the first place, revealed in an interview that Lee’s presence faced great resistance from those around him [via Black Belt Magazine]. According to him, it didn’t take long at all for Lee to outdo students who had been training there much longer than him, which proved frustrating to his peers. The tensions between Lee and the others worsened when they found out about his Eurasian heritage from his mother’s side. In their eyes,
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