Leung Ting

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Leung Ting (1947 - Present) is the founder and permanent president of the International WingTsun Association.

Leung chose the spelling of WingTsun to differentiate his teachings from those of other Wing Chun schools, and to keep them from passing off their style as his own. (There is no standard romanization of Cantonese; the Chinese characters remain the same.)

For a time, the martial arts were seen as the activity of triad members, resulting in a strong negative association. In order to improve the image of martial arts, Leung devoted himself to promoting and teaching WingTsun. He was the first instructor to introduce any style of kung fu in an academic institution, the Baptist College in Hong Kong.

Among the achievements in his career outside of teaching and writing about WingTsun, Leung has been a fight director in some Hong Kong films.

Leung appeared on episode 1 of the first season of the BBC show Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves; a 10 part series on martial arts masters of the east hosted by Chris Crudelli.[1]

1 Lineage
2 Controversy
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Lineage

Lineage in Wing Chun
sifu	Yip Man
sihing	Leung Sheung
Leung Ting
training partner	Cheng Chuen Fun (Hong Kong)
known students	Keith R. Kernspecht (Germany), Slavko Truntic (Croatia), Norbert Maday (Hungary), Elmond Leung (Hong Kong and USA), Jeff Webb (USA), William Parker (USA), Mike Adams (USA), Steve Brandon (USA)

[edit] Controversy

Leung claims to be the last closed door disciple of the late Yip Man, though some of Yip Man's students have disputed whether he ever even studied with Yip. Leung's own uncle, Leung Shan, one of Yip Man's first Hong Kong students, has refuted Leung Ting's claims of having been Yip Man's student, but also his nephew's claim that he first studied with Leung Shan^{[citation needed]}.

This controversy was further fuelled in part by allegations that photos that Leung has presented showing him with Yip Man were doctored or altered from photographs that show Yip with someone else.^[1] Leung, in turn, has denied the head change.^[2] It is also important to note that this is not the only photograph linking Yip Man to Leung, nor is the claim denying that he had contact or paid for lessons with him. Other photo evidence shows Ting at Yip Man's funeral with an armband which apparently denotes a rank other than first generation. In any case, the crux of the controversy is about seniority, not lineage.