So irl Ip Man did fight other martial arts actively in his days according to this irl Ip Man documentary

[Blueditz]

Irl Ip Man documentary:

Timestamp: 12:29-13:15, 13:50-14:17

 

[Blueditz]

My second question is also, is everything said in that irl Ip Man documentary true?

 

[wckf92]

Anyone know what 'irl' means?

 

[Steve]

Anyone know what 'irl' means?

IRL = “In real life”

 

[wckf92]

IRL = “In real life”

Thanks

 

[hunschuld]

The simple answer is no one knows what is or is not true because there are no living witnesses.

Undoubtedly some stories are true, some slight exaggeration and some total BS

Many have used Yip Mans reputation to bolster their own and charge high lesson fee's Many have belittled Yip Man to boost their own stature and cash in by saying their wing chun is better older etc

When money is involved it is best to be skeptical.

Yip Man himself had different levels of students. The ones that paid for private lessons or were the early fighters that grew his school through fighting success learned the most Since Yip man spent more time with them they probably got better or more accurate stories.
The only school that Yip Man ever officially publicly endorsed was Jui Wan. Compare that to all the students that taught wing chun and you can get an idea of the variety of stories kicking around.

 

[Blueditz]

The simple answer is no one knows what is or is not true because there are no living witnesses.

Undoubtedly some stories are true, some slight exaggeration and some total BS

Many have used Yip Mans reputation to bolster their own and charge high lesson fee's Many have belittled Yip Man to boost their own stature and cash in by saying their wing chun is better older etc

When money is involved it is best to be skeptical.

Yip Man himself had different levels of students. The ones that paid for private lessons or were the early fighters that grew his school through fighting success learned the most Since Yip man spent more time with them they probably got better or more accurate stories.
The only school that Yip Man ever officially publicly endorsed was Jui Wan. Compare that to all the students that taught wing chun and you can get an idea of the variety of stories kicking around.

Yea like the one story written by Leung Ting where it said Yip Man fought a boxer Kam Shan Mao and beat him either with one punch or within a minute sounds BS, no doubt Yip Man did have a certain amount of fights, the thing is we can’t verify which stores are true or a parts thereof.

 

[JowGaWolf]

Yea like the one story written by Leung Ting where it said Yip Man fought a boxer Kam Shan Mao and beat him either with one punch or within a minute sounds BS,

This depends on the rules that were set for the fight. The one thing I don't hear much of is if the fights were all out fights or if there were specific rules. A challenge of skills so to speak.

A beat B in a real sword fight. This could sound really amazing until you understand that the rule was whoever draws first blood wins. Rule first Blood. While accidents can happen, we know that it wasn't a fight to the death. And that it looked like this.

Beat someone with one punch could be. The first one who lands a punch wins.

 

[hunschuld]

This depends on the rules that were set for the fight. The one thing I don't hear much of is if the fights were all out fights or if there were specific rules. A challenge of skills so to speak.

A beat B in a real sword fight. This could sound really amazing until you understand that the rule was whoever draws first blood wins. Rule first Blood. While accidents can happen, we know that it wasn't a fight to the death. And that it looked like this.

Beat someone with one punch could be. The first one who lands a punch wins.

General Hong Kong rooftop rules, No eyes,no throat.no knee's no roasting chestnuts everything else was fair. first round one side attacks second round other side has to attack . Some folks got smacked pretty good. Yip Man changed or stop teaching some techniques after his students caused some real damage with them. Yip Bo Ching for example was the first to learn the dummy. After he really hurt someone with a technique Yip man changed it so it never showed up in any other students dummy forms.
Older challenge matches from the 1860s and later periods were generally more restrained. For example you throw me on my ***. We start again and I acknowledge your skill etc. I connect on a body shot or stop my punch just in front of your face. You acknowledge My skill and we start again. There were of course exceptions. Lo Kwai had some instances where he used his knives against bandits for example. This was real however after this his reputation was such that bandits and everyone else left him alone after 2 incidents.