Malay Wing Chun practitioner out to preserve martial arts heritage

A file picture dated May 6,2010 of Kahar (left) training with the 'wooden man' dummy as his sifu, the late Yip Fook Choy, looks on. – ONG SOON HIN/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Long before the Ip Man series of movies was filmed, an 18-year-old school-leaver in Kuala Lumpur named Kahar Saidun was immersing himself in martial arts training.

Back then in 1991, Kahar was already learning a modified version of Wing Chun – known as Yip Kin Wing Chun – from sifu Yip Fook Choy.