Chan wah soon aprendió wing chun de leung jan. Pero no era familiar directo de leung jan, sino un vecino o, según otra version que conozco, su jardinero. El caso es que como en principio leung jan no quería enseñarle, este (Chan wah soon) comenzó a espiarlo cuando enseñana a sus hijos: leun bik y leung chun. Habiendo advertido esto un día lueng jan, le propone enseñarle, pero le enseña un wing chun con errores de angulación, para que el verdadero wing chun quede en su familia.
Posteriormente chan wah soon enseño a yip man su wing chun con errores de angulación. Un día, (yip man era dado a los combates cuando era joven) combatió con una anciano que le dio una buena tunda. Pero la sorpresa de yip man radicaba en que hacían lo mismo, pero el viejo le cubria sus golpes y asu vez le pegaba. Yip man le preguntó la razon de esto, y el viejo, al preguntarle a yip man quien era su maestro le respondió contandole la historia de chan wah sun. Este viejo era leung bik, hijo de leung jan.
Como vio que yip man tenía cndiciones, le corrigió esos errores de angulación con los que su padre había enseñado wing chun a chan wah soon. Esta historia me la conto la primera persona que me enseño wing chun en argentina, nunca la pude confirmar hasta hace poco, cuando vi este link australiano de w ch donde más o menos cuentan la misma historia
http://www.wingchun-kungfu.com.au/wing_ ... istory.php
Leung Jan had two sons, Leung Bik and Leung Chun.
Chan Wah Soon, a neighbor wished to learn from the famous Master Jan but, as he was not a family member was not permitted. He so much admired the fighting system that he resorted to spying on the daily teachings of Jan’s two sons.
Leung Jan soon discovered the spying and, touched by his dedication, eventually accepted him as a student. However, he modified his teachings to Chan to keep the true system within his own family.
Chan Wah Soon went on to be a famous Master in his own right, being appointed as chief instructor to the “Soldiers of the Eight Banners”, elite troops of the Manchus.
When Leung Jan died, Leung Bik moved to Hong Kong and Chan Wah Soon remained in China to teach Wing Chun.
He taught for 36 years but in this time only accepted 16 disciples, including his son, Chan Yu Min and his daughter in law.
One of his students was later to become the most famous Master of Wing Chun, Yip Man.
According to history, Yip Man, at the age of 12 went to Chan Wah Soon seeking instruction. Chan told the boy that if he paid 300 pieces of silver, he would be accepted.
The boy left and soon returned with the required amount. Wondering how a small boy could raise such a large amount of money, Chan accompanied the boy home to confront his parents.
To his surprise he found that the money was Yip’s life savings; he then decided that the boy was truly worthy to receive his teachings and accepted him as his final student.
Yip Man studied under Chan Wah Soon and many of the senior students at the school until Chan died, his tuition was then taken over by Ng Chun So, Master Chan’s most senior disciple.
Later, Yip Man moved to Hong Kong to continue his schooling, it was here that he heard of an old Kung Fu Master. He approached the man and, full of the confidence of youth, challenged him to fight.
To his dismay the old man easily defeated him; the old man was none other that Leung Bik, the surviving son of Leung Jan.
Leung Bik accepted Yip as his only student and taught him the complete family system.
