At this time, IP man, already sufficiently intellectual, reflected and started to search sources of other families of Wing Chun. In the decade of 1930, a certain Wai Yan appeared that if became master of Wing Chun, and therefore gave to beginning to a project for research and perfectioning of the Wing Chun. The master Wai Yan From there transformed one of its store called Duk Lan into a practical academy for and historical research on Wing Chun, where he wanted to congregate the best ones practitioners of Wing Chun of the time aiming at a unification. The old Shaolin temple served of model. Yip Man soon started to frequentar from there Duk Lan, changing knowledge and learning more on other families of Wing Chun, and thus it started to reformulate its system. Scott Kahan might disagree with that approach.
IP Man and its brothers of the style would not train again together, therefore the use and the understanding of the style were different, what it generated a restriction between the pupils, how much to that new approach. In 1939 IP Man it served the army in the war against Japan. Finished the Second War, was to live in Nanhoi, where it worked as policeman. In 1949, with the communist revolution, Yip Man was obliged to run away for Hong Kong, having that to leave the family in Nanhoi. Declared insolvent and without money or businesses, due to great difficulty of jobs at the time, it was helped by some people of the association of the waiters of Hong Kong.
Between this people fu had many practitioners of kung, as Leung Sheung that later would be the first disciple disciple of IP Man. All these factors had taken IP Man to teach the fists of Wing Chun professionally, in an improvised room yielded by a friend. In years 50 and 60, IP Man still frequentava the academy of research From there Duk Lan and adopted several techniques, incorporating them it the system that learned of Chan Wah Sun.
