Wednesday, May 15, 2013

History of Life Ip Man (Yip Man)

A Brief History of Life Ip Man (Yip Man) - Create your action movie lovers, the name Ip Man (Yip Man) is certainly not foreign to your ears. You certainly not know Bruce Lee? Yes, this is his teacher Ip Man, the kung fu legend extraordinary and became famous for his Wing Chun techniques. For those of you who are curious about the life of Ip Man Brief History, let's refer to the following detailed information. Ip Man was born in Foshan in 1893 from a wealthy merchant family, in the age of the 13 study Yip Wing Chun from Chan Wah-Shun and forwarded by Ng Chung-sok accordance Chan message before dying.

Ip Man (Yip Man) is an homage to the legendary Wing Chun kung fu. He has studied Wing Chun at the age of 13 years. According to Wikipedia, Yip Man is the Master of Kung Fu (Sifu) first openly teach Wing Chun to the public. Ip Man (Donnie Yen) began studying Wing Chun or one branch of kung fu martial arts since he was thirteen years old. Her love of martial arts made him willing to sacrifice a lot in order to develop the martial arts. Having long studied Wing Chun, Ip Man decides to open their own college.

Many people who had time to sit on the Wing Chun master this one and some of his students later became well known despite the name Ip Man himself is rarely known. One of the students who are well known Ip Man was Bruce Lee, who had studied at Ip Man for five years. Age 16, Yip to continue his studies at St. Stephen's College, Hong Kong, where the school is designated the rich and foreigners in Hong Kong.

Ip Man and Bruce Lee

Yip in this school known since beating senior student with a small movement. In the age of the 24 Yip returned to Foshan, to science thriving Wing Chun, Yip did not establish schools or colleges there, only taught to some pupils and their relationships alone. In the Japanese population in China, Yip always refused all invitations Yip want the Japanese government to teach Japanese martial forces.

Yip then returned to Hong Kong and founded a martial arts school, almost all former students of Yip to be famous, succeeded in establishing itself, a regulator in a martial arts movie star or even matches his own, and the most famous of his disciples is Lee Yip Xiao Long or Bruce Lee. December 2, 1972, Yip died because of cancer, but the results are in the martial arts taught it, Wing Chung has spread to all corners of the world.

Ip Man movie

IP MAN movie is adapted from the true story of the life of Wing Chun master this. The director, Wilson Yip, decided to focus the film on the Japanese occupation in China sometime in the 30's and highlights how Ip Man who loved his country refused to teach Wing Chun at the time the Japanese army.

Ip Man

Although referred to as a movie that was made based on a true story, but there are some 'twist' which was made possible with consideration to make this movie the story line to make it more interesting. For example, in this film, Ip Man is told to leave mainland China to Hong Kong for refusing to cooperate with the Japanese army when it occupied the territory of China. According to history, Ip Man left China in 1949 because it avoids the communist government.

And the results of 'modification' is quite effective even though the actual story line is not far from Hong Kong most of the film. As in most of Hong Kong martial arts films, the protagonist is usually always portrayed as perfect or at least close to perfect so sometimes slightly lose his human form.

On the other hand, this film also has more value because it describes the martial art Wing Chun with very realistic. Some basic principles of martial arts is still held strong in every fight choreography so the film looks realistic but at the same time also to look 'different' than most of the Hong Kong Kung Fu films. And here the film is so brave pioneers present because close combat martial arts films are usually avoided because they are less attractive displayed on a big screen.

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