

It functions like normal Wing Chun, only deviating in ways it is taught. Guo Lao Wing Chun uses 40 short drills which are a loose expression and application of Wing Chun.


Tam Yeung was one of the Leung Jan's students who would learn this system in entirety. To learn a single form from now elderly Leung Jan, the villagers needed to pay a significant amount of money. Leung Jan grows weary of inactivity while in retirement and chooses to teach a small group of students in a new variation of Wing Chun that focuses on short drills. This branch was taught by Leung Jan when he retired back to his native village of Gu Lao in Heshan County, Guangdong province and is typically referred to by the village name to distinguish it from the doctor's Foshan teachings. Sum Nung Gu Lao Village / Forty Points Wing Chun History Īdditional emphasis on use of knives, six and a half point pole and throwing darts.

Yip Man studied under Leung Bik for a few years before returning home to Foshan where he opened his own school. Yip Man did not win and the old man was Leung Bik. In another legend Yip Man was attending school in Hong Kong during the 1910s, where he was invited by a friend to challenge a highly skilled old man.
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Leung Jan passed it on to his two sons Leung Chun and Leung Bik plus other students who included Chan Wah-Shun, who taught his own students including Yip Man. She taught this to one of her students Yim Wing-chun, she taught her husband Leung Bok-chao who named the style Wing Chun Kuen (Wing Chun boxing) in his wife's honour and who passed it to Leung Lan-kwai of the Red Boat Opera Company (although other versions of this legend state that he was a scholar and herbalist), who passed it on to Wong Wa-bo and Leung Yee-tai both of the Red Boat Opera, and who both taught the herbalist Leung Jan. She incorporated their fighting styles into her Shaolin Kung Fu to develop an unnamed style. This lineage has a legend in which a nun Ng Mui saw a fight between a crane and a snake.
