Bruce Lee spent four and a half years training in Wing Chun Kung Fu under the watchful eye of Grandmaster Yip Man and seniors William Cheung and Wong Shun Leung. His only formal period of study that gave him the necessary foundation for his co ordination, sensitivity, reflexes and timing, to which he could further develop his speed, power non telegraphic movement and agility.
Dom Békés: How much of the Wing Chun syllabus did Bruce Lee learn?
William Cheung: Bruce Lee, Four and a half years he train in Wing Chun. He is not for one to learn a lot but everything he learned he became a master of it.
Dom Békés: What would you train together in Wing Chun? What would the sessions comprise of?
William Cheung: Basically, say we were training a technique, we would take a technique to break it down to minute sections to test all the different variations and also trying to understand how the technique work and what is the main principle and whats the timing.
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