Wong Shun Leung trained in several martial art styles in his youth, primarily in tai chi chuan and boxing. <br /> <br />He abandoned boxing because of two incidents: one with his boxing coach and one with Yip Man. <br /> <br />The first incident apparently occurred because Wong accidentally struck his boxing coach during sparring. The angry coach attacked in earnest, only to be eventually knocked out by Wong; the incident caused Wong to leave boxing. <br />In another account, however, Wong said he had defeated his boxing coach with wing chun techniques: "I was sparring with my instructor and I hit him very hard, he got real mad and came at me very hard. I fought back with wing chun and he ended up bleeding. Boxing was over for me!" <br /> <br />The second incident came about from Wong's fascination with the stories of legendary wing chun figures, such as Chan Wah-shun and Leung Jan. This interest led Wong to look for a wing chun teacher. Friends of his older brother took him to meet Yip Man. According to one version of events, after defeating at least two of Yip's students, Wong had a match with Yip himself and was defeated easily. Another version is that after Wong faced Lo Man Kam, Yip Po Ching defeated Wong. <br />In any case, Wong joined the wing chun group and eventually came to assist Yip with teaching, with students including Bruce Lee. Lee once wrote in a letter to Wong, "Even though I am (technically) a student of Yip Man, in reality I learned my Kung-fu from you."
