Notes » January 2009

Fist of Humility

Wow, it's just like a scene in a Hong Kong-made kung fu movie.

With the release of the film Ip Man came a minor controversy in the form of 'disrespectful' comments made by mainland Chinese actor and contemporary martial artist Jacky Wu Jing, which boil down to him saying "Ip who?"

Such brazenness could not go unanswered, so the master of a Hong Kong Ving Tsun school (aka Wing Chun; the style used by Ip Man, who was also Bruce Lee's master) challenged Wu to a three-round fight to see which style would prevail.

The last time something like this occurred was in 1954 when:

... master Chan Hak-fu, of the White Crane style, and master Wu Gong-I, of the Tai Chi school, fought three bare-knuckle rounds in Macao. A debate over which kung fu style was better sparked the clash, which ended in a draw.

The irony here is that in the film, Ip Man routinely turned away most challengers because he knew his kung fu was superior.

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