Controversy
It is claimed that Yip Man's considerable skill increase after training with Leung Bik validates both the existence of the Traditional Wing Chun system and its superiority to the claimed "modified" Wing Chun. However, Yip Man family Wing Chun practitioners have accused William Cheung of inventing this historical divergence in order to legitimize his own modifications as "secret" elements of Wing Chun. Since the only other possible source of corroboration of Cheung's claims would have been Yip Man himself, it will never be known whether or not Cheung's version of events is true or not.
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