Wing Chun Grand Master Ip Man 葉問 and Bruce Lee

The most immense influence on Bruce Lee's martial development was his study of the Chinese martial art Wing Chun. Bruce Lee began training in Wing Chun at age 13 under the famous Wing Chun master Ip Man in the summer of 1954. Master Ip Man was also a colleague and friend of Hong Kong's Tai Chi Chuan teacher Wu Ta-Chi. Ip's regular classes generally consisted of these forms of practice, Chi Sao (trapping hands) drills, wooden dummy techniques, and free-sparring. There was no standard. Ip tried to teach his students from street fighting with gangs of Hong Kong to fight in a form of organized competitions and or formal show for Martial Arts.
After a year into his Wing Chun training, most of Ip Man's students refused to train together with Bruce after they learnt of his ancestry (his mother was of half-German) as the Chinese in America generally were repelling teaching martial arts techniques to non-Chinese. Bruce’ sparring partner, Toe Dai Hawkins Cheung stated, "Probably fewer than six students in the Wing Chun clan were personally taught, or even partly taught, by Ip Man." However Bruce showed a keen interest in the art, and continued to train privately with William Cheung and Wong Shun Leung in 1955.
HK Snob