Interesting...
I have heard of other styles (Tai chi, lau gar, etc) having similar characteristics to wing chun and vice versa.
What you have to remember is that wing chun was one of the newer kung fu forms to come from the shaolin temple and will therefore include many characteristics seen in other styles. It is like seeing elements of ju-jitsu in karate and vice versa.
The whole wing chun story is so undefined that people always argue which story is right. To be honest, I don't really mind as long as it works!!
We will never truly know what training Yip Man received - he may have taken elements of arts trained by students in his class and incoperated them into his wing chun, he may have kept wing chun 'pure' (ie not added any techniques to what he had been taught), we will never know for sure.
In the days of the temple, I am sure there were monks that passed through and caught bits of the various kung fu systems that were being taught at the time
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