Yip Man never taught Bruce Lee

Yeah, that's another myth I've heard propagated in China. When you say "most" of his training, well, most of 6 months is still not a very long time. Bruce studied so many forms that saying JKD is derivative of Wing Chun is just ridiculous. After his time with Yip Chun, he mostly avoided China, and definitely avoided Gong Fu/Kung Fu in general, which he called a "classical mess". Guru Dan Inosanto actually does not go to China at all, and there are no JKD teachers there. Not one. If they are advertising themselves as such, they are doing so illegally. There is only one guy in China that is really qualified to talk about JKD, and he is leaving in the next month. Then Chinese folk can go back to creating TV shows that focus on his film career, that portray him with a desire to become a big movie star. Bruce hated being an actor, by his own admission in an interview (the same interview in which he noted that he could speak only broken Guangdonghua and no Putonghua at all). He only did those films to show off JKD. I'm not trying to create a new narrative, I'm just going by what's said by the people that knew him and by the man himself. Just because there is a statue of him in China does not make him Chinese. There is also statue of him in Bosnia, and I hope nobody is going to say he was Bosnian.

First of all, I live in China. I love Chinese folk and use the term "folk" utmost respect. Using the term "people" in this sense is dehumanizing. Don't try the racist card because my Chinese girlfriend will tell you it doesn't work. Saying "the Chinese race" is a very xenophobic way to look at human beings, but I'll let it go.

Second, I never once denied Bruce Lee was of Chinese ancestry, that would be absurd. Why don't you read instead of leaping to fallacious conclusions? Bruce's parents were Chinese, but he was American, born and raised. It is by Bruce's own admission that he could barely speak Cantonese. Lumping him in as Chinese just because his parents were Chinese is like saying there are no Americans except Native Americans/Indians. According to Bruce, he was American. It's as simple as that.

Take a look at the punching system from Way of Intercepting Fist(Jeet Kune Do) and then look at the wimpy punches from Kung Fu/Gong Fu. Sigung Bruce's style wasn't Chinese or American. Anyone who thinks so doesn't understand Bruce or JKD. He used to say something (I can't remember the exact quote) about getting into the boat, away from shore, that you're not free until you are away from any nation.

你是中国人吧，所以你写的英文有的时候友问题。你真的以为我对中国人有麻烦但是我就是想说李小龙地道的生活。他最好的朋友以前是我的师傅所以他说我就说。 好像中国人都也认为一样的，可是还不对。

WTF is this BS.
The OP didn't watch the Undubbed Bruce Lee's Films. He speaks Cantonese in them. That was his freaking voice.
He grew up in Hong Kong. Maybe he consider himself more Hong Kongese than Chinese. That's understandable.
What the heck does he speak to his friends and family in HK. They didn't speak English at home. Maybe Toi Shan Cantonese.
If you're in doubt, go to Hong Kong and ask his brother and sisters.

Lee was being modest when he said he spoke broken Cantonese.
There is proper Cantonese which is spoken in Canton if you want to be picky about it.

As for the main topic that Yip Man never taught Lee. It is very common practice in Schools for the senior students teaching the other students. Yip Mun was Bruce Lee's master and it's absurd to say they never interacted.

Thanks so much for your response. It's a shame that this thread descended into such vitriol; it's refreshing then to get such an informed and honest response. I've never heard that it was Leung, I'd heard it was Chun-- but it sounds like you are the man to believe. My main quibble is with all of these films that are produced here in China that tout Yip Man basically as where all of Bruce Lee's skills came from. Ask any Chinese citizen and that is what they will tell you. They don't like to talk about the bit where Bruce's German heritage got him shunned by many of his peers in the Wing Chun community.

I have to say, by the way, what a great experience it must have been for you to train with such a master.

Didn't anybody ever teach you not to cite Wikipedia as a reputable source? Those photos of Bruce and Yip was taken years later, when Bruce returned to Hong Kong, as a movie star. Yip's business manager thought it would be good for marketing to take a few photos with Bruce and advertise that he had trained at their school. He had not, however, spent one day actually training with Yip himself, but instead with one of his assistants at the time.

By the way, you probably haven't spent that much time here in China, because you would know that all of those TV shows are complete BS. The Chinese narrative of Bruce Lee has been spun over the last few decades into something so twisted that there's nothing resembling the real story in there.