23/09/2026
Ein schöner Artikel über Lok Yiu von Love Wing Chun
Lok Yiu war Ip Mans Schüler, zu einer Zeit, als es noch keine Filme über Wing Chun gab, und Ip Man noch nicht berühmt war.
Lok Yiu fing an… und blieb.
Und in diesem Satz steckt so viel!
Weitermachen, üben… und wieder üben. Ich möchte nicht wissen wieviele Stunden er damit verbracht hat zu trainieren und besser zu werden. Absolut begeistert vom Wing Chun …Aber lest selbst
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A lovely article about Lok Yiu by I Love Wing Chun
Lok Yiu was a student of Ip Man—back when there were no movies about Wing Chun and Ip Man wasn't yet famous.
Lok Yiu started… and stayed.
And there is so much packed into that one sentence!
Keeping at it, practicing… and practicing some more. I can only imagine how many hours he spent training and honing his skills. Absolutely passionate about Wing Chun… But read it for yourself.
Before Wing Chun became famous around the world, there were only a handful of students in the room. Lok Yiu was one of the ones who stayed.
In 1950, Ip Man began teaching Wing Chun at the Restaurant Workers Association in Hong Kong. Among that earliest group were Leung Sheung and Lok Yiu. Historical records associated with the Ving Tsun Athletic Association later identified Leung Sheung as Ip Man's first Hong Kong student and Lok Yiu as his second.
Those early classes were a very different world from the Wing Chun we know today. There were no Ip Man movies. No international seminar circuit. No millions of practitioners discovering the art through Bruce Lee.
Just a small group training under a teacher who had only recently begun teaching publicly in Hong Kong.
Lok Yiu stayed.
He trained intensively under Ip Man, became an important figure in those early years, and eventually taught students of his own. Later lineage accounts particularly associate him with Chum Kiu and Wing Chun's long pole, with some referring to him as the “King of Chum Kiu.”
In 1961, Lok Yiu established his own school, helping another generation inherit what had begun in those small Hong Kong classes just over a decade earlier. He died in February 2006, leaving his Wing Chun lineage to continue through his students and family.
Bruce Lee and Wong Shun Leung would eventually become names known around the martial-arts world.
But Lok Yiu was there before either of them entered Ip Man's school.
🌹 Give him his flowers.
Did you ever train with Lok Yiu, meet him, or learn through his lineage? Share your story below. 👇
Sources: Ving Tsun Athletic Association historical family-tree record; Lok Yiu Wing Chun lineage sources; International Wing Chun Academy.
