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Below is a picture of a class of Grandmaster Chris Chan’s Graduates. I believe that it is the first generation of sifus he graduated.
Chris Chan's First Generation of Sifus
stupid WP is stripping the URL.. try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaKJovbuK04
A few years ago, Grandmaster Chris Chan gave me a copy of this photo of Leung Jan. It looks like it’s from a TV broadcast, and the text on the bottom reads: “Grandmaster of Ip Man”. I can’t verify the photo. I asked a Gulao Style Sifu if he had heard of a photo and I was informed that all the village’s records were destroyed.
Leung Jan
Chris Chan's 2005 Demo
Grandmaster Chris Chan — founder, president and chief instructor of the U.S. Wing Chun Kung Fu Academy — celebrated his 65th birthday and the 50th golden anniversary of his martial-arts career last month in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Mastering his skills, power and teachings in Wing Chun kung fu, Chan has spent countless hours sharing with and teaching students who number in the thousands, from as far as Europe and China.
Here are a few photos with Chris Chan at his school in SF, with Ip Chun, with Wong Shun Leung, Chu Shong Tin, and Leung Ting, with Ip Chun at the grave of Grandmaster Ip Man, and with Lun Kai at his school in Fatsan. Photos Courtesy of Bob Cook, Burt Rodriguez, Larry Mann, Et. Al.
Chris Chan & Ip Chun
Chris Chan & Ip Chun at Ip Man’s Grave
Chris Chan with Wong Shun Leung, Chu Shong Tin and Leung Ting
Chris Chan & Lun Gai
Update 12/18/2010
From http://www.blackbeltmag.com/user_images/41:
Bert Rodriguez & Ip Chun
Update 12/22/2010:
Chris Chan in Ip Man Tong
Here is more supplimental proof:
Click on the image to expand.. can’t be bothered to write the embed code right now..
Chinese newspaper:
IKF Magazine:
VTAA Ip Man 100 Year Anniversary Book:
VTAA Genealogy 2nd Ed.
Sam Kwok Book:
This had been contributed to Wikipedia some time ago by a senior student at my school, but for some reason information on Wing Chun lineages was deleted and continues to be deleted by a gang of wiki zealots. I have preserved & updated it here. Please send me suggestions for people I have forgotten to add.
Chris Chan (陳成 Trad. 陈成 Simp. Chan Shing)
Chris Chan started training with Yip Man in 1955. Over the past 40 years, he has taught semi-privately Chan continues to increase his knowledge of Wing Chun with his numerous trips to Fatshan.
Just listen to the sound!
Here is the feature segment from “Bay Area Backroads” from a few years back with Grandmaster Chris Chan and Greg Lee, son of James Lee, who was the training partner for Bruce Lee (no relation) when Bruce lived in Oakland.
