Ip Chun (simplified Chinese: 叶准; traditional Chinese: 葉準; pinyin: Yè Zhǔn; born July 1924), also spelled as Yip Chun or Yip Jun, is a Chinese Wing Chun martial artist. He is the oldest son of Yip Man (Ip Man).
Ip began studying Wing Chun with his father when he was seven years old. In 1949, after the Communists established the People's Republic of China on the mainland, Ip's father left for Hong Kong and Ip, then 24, remained in Foshan to continue his studies in university. Ip studied Chinese history, philosophy, poetry, traditional music, and Buddhism.
By 1950, Ip had completed his studies and he chose teaching as a profession. In addition to teaching Chinese history, music and science, Ip also helped the Chinese Foshan Entertainment Department organize opera plays. During that time, he was awarded "The Person with the Most Potential in Chinese Art" award for his research in music. However in 1962, due to the Cultural Revolution, Ip and his younger brother, Ip Ching, were forced to leave Fo Shan and move to Hong Kong to join their father.
Shaun Rawcliffe (born 1961) is a former professional bodyguard, a British martial artist and ICT security consultant.
Shaun Rawcliffe went from studying architecture to working with ex-SAS officer and survival expert Eddie McGee. He taught CQB to the armed forces, trained alongside the Gurkha regiment and had a stint in the Falklands during the ‘conflict’ before working in close protection in North Africa and then Saudi Arabia for a notable Saudi family. He worked in the close protection industry for over nineteen years, working in Europe, Hong Kong and the UK. Though most of his clients were private businessmen, he also worked for Chan Kong-Sang Jackie Chan, Hong Jin Bao Sammo Hung and Cynthia Rothrock to name a few in the world of Martial arts.
He is a senior western student of Ip Chun (葉準 or Yip Jun) and is one of only 20 people in the world who have Master Ip Chun's personal certification and permission to teach for and represent him worldwide. Shaun Rawcliffe was instrumental in planning and starting the Ip Chun Wing Chun Kuen Martial Arts Association in Hong Kong with Ip Chun in 1992 and the European Ip Chun Wing Chun Association in 2005.
Shaun runs the Midlands Wing Chun Kuen organisation (Midlands Wing Chun Kuen (UK)) with schools around the United Kingdom and northern Italy. In 1999 at the 1st World Ving Tsun Conference in Hong Kong, he gave one of the most memorable, practical and entertaining demonstrations of Wing Chun street self defence to the background music of "the good, the bad and the ugly".
Donnie Yen Ji-Dan (born 27 July 1963) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film director and producer, action choreographer, and world wushu tournament medalist. Apart from being a well-known film and television actor in Hong Kong, Yen has also gained international recognition for appearing in many films together with other prominent and internationally-known actors such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
Yen is widely credited by many as the person responsible for popularizing the traditional martial arts style known as Wing Chun. He played the role of Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in the 2008 film Ip Man, which was a box office success. This has led to an increase in the number of people taking up Wing Chun, leading to hundreds of new Wing Chun schools to be opened up in mainland China and other parts of Asia.Ip Chun, the eldest son of Ip Man, even mentioned that he is grateful to Yen for making his family art popular and allowing his father's legacy to be remembered.
Yen is considered to be Hong Kong's top action star; director Peter Chan mentioned that he "is the 'it' action person right now" and "has built himself into a bona fide leading man, who happens to be an action star." Yen is widely credited for bringing mixed martial arts (MMA) into the mainstream of Chinese culture, by choreographing MMA in many of his recent films. Yen has displayed notable skills in MMA, being well-versed in boxing, kickboxing, taekwondo, Muay Thai, wrestling, karate, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Wing Chun, and Wushu. Seen as one of the most popular film stars in Asia in recent years, Yen is currently one of the most highly paid actors in the whole of Asia.