That Yip Man pic with the Iron Rings

**pseudoswitch** · 12-05-2003, 04:01 PM

Hey does anyone have a digital copy or a link to that famous pic of Yip Man doing tan sau with the iron rings?

Cheers,

**PHILBERT** · 12-05-2003, 09:22 PM

I couldn't find one on Google, but in the book The Tao of Gung Fu (of the Bruce Lee library) you can find one on page 108. I tried using my mom's digital camera before to take a photo but couldn't get it to work.

**pseudoswitch** · 12-07-2003, 02:22 AM

Can anyone that has that book try scanning the pic and posting it?

Nice pic it is. Makes a case for lower tan sau and tension during first SLT section.

Cheers

**Sekabin** · 12-07-2003, 09:55 AM

You mean this?

**foolinthedeck** · 12-07-2003, 10:08 AM

well if thats the pic in question it makes absolutely no case for using tension in the first part of SLT or anywhere else!!!

when you do chi sau with someone whos hands press down on yours, either through relaxation or strength, relaxing and using position is key not tension. It is possible to lift heavy weights and remain relaxed...

furthermore - the picture cannot demonstrate the weight of the rings.

**foolinthedeck** · 12-07-2003, 10:17 AM

Look!
i found a picture of him with even more iron rings!!
so he must be using even more tension!!

**old jong** · 12-07-2003, 10:25 AM

Lokk closely at these two pics.
They look like the same to me but one has more photoshop in it!...

bullpoop!...

**Sekabin** · 12-07-2003, 10:29 AM

can anyone tell me what he's supposed to be doing in the pic? What's the origin of it? There must have been a discussion about this before as its a bloody strange photo...

**foolinthedeck** · 12-07-2003, 10:54 AM

maybe he was playing hoop-la at the fair, he stood one side and little bruce would throw the plastic (its a black and white photo so they look like iron) hoops onto Ip Mans tan sao.

maybe it was a rare form of eczema that Ip Man suffered from.

maybe the picture is actually from the 1980's when wearing lots of bangles was all the rage.

**Phil Redmond** · 12-07-2003, 10:56 AM

Funny, I've been telling people this for years and people said I was wrong. I sometimes train using hand weights while concentrating on forwarding energy. Thanks for the pic Sek.
The other picture does look a little extreme as "Young" Jong says.

**foolinthedeck** · 12-07-2003, 11:09 AM

phil,
just because people told you that you were wrong doesnt mean you were.
just because the picture shows what you were doing doesnt mean you were right.

**old jong** · 12-07-2003, 11:49 AM

There is nothing wrong in doing exercices even if these exercices are not "Wing Chun"!...
Being strong and in relative good shape is certainly not a nuisance.

Specialy for the "senior citizens" of Wing Chun!....(me included)

**Phenix** · 12-07-2003, 12:11 PM

Originally posted by Sekabin
can anyone tell me what he's supposed to be doing in the pic? What's the origin of it? There must have been a discussion about this before as its a bloody strange photo...

He is doing something secret that the Shao Lin guys doesn't know.

**Phil Redmond** · 12-07-2003, 07:02 PM

Maybe you were right about the picture. Here's what a student of mine sent me to show what can be done to an image. Can't trust anything these days.

**Brithlor** · 12-07-2003, 08:37 PM

LOL, those photoshop Yip Man pictures are hilarious... I got to make one

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