Born in Hong Kong in 1936, Sifu Chan Chee Man is one of the last legitimate senior students of the late Grandmaster Ip Man. He first learnt Choy Lee Fat from an old man at the YMCA, and after training hard for some time, he wanted to test his Kung Fu. He sparred twice with his friend Sifu William Cheung but lost both times. Wing Chun intrigued Sifu Chan, even though the style seemed strange to him. So William took him to Ip Man, and he started learning Wing Chun at the Restaurant Workers Union in 1954—without even knowing the name of his famous Wing Chun teacher!