Leung Ting
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Leung Ting (born 1947) is the founder and permanent president of the International WingTsun Association.[citation needed]
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.)
Among the achievements in his career outside of teaching and writing about WingTsun, Leung has been a fight director in some Hong Kong films.[1]
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.[2]
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[edit] Lineage
| Lineage in Wing Chun | |
| sifu | Yip Man[citation needed] |
| sihing | Leung Sheung[citation needed] |
| Leung Ting |
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| Sidai and training partner | Cheng Chuen Fun (Hong Kong) |
| Sidai and brother | Leung Koon (Hong Kong) |
| known students | Keith R. Kernspecht (Germany), Slavko Truntic (Croatia), Norbert Maday (Hungary),Ka Sun Lau (Hong Kong, currently in Canada)[citation needed] Leung Kwok Wah[3] (Hong Kong), Elmond Leung[4] Will Parker(USA), Mike Adams (USA) |
| former students | Jeff Webb, Emin Boztepe, Allan Fong,[citation needed] Richard Guerra[5] (USA) |
[edit] Controversy
In the summer of 2007 - In an article of Hong Kong's newspaper, Leung Ting admitted that he learnt WT Kung Fu from a student of Yip Man. In other words, Yip Man was not his Sifu. Also his Wing Tsun is a modified version.[citation needed]
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.
This controversy was further fueled in part by allegations that a photo that Leung has presented showing him with Yip Man was doctored or altered from a photograph that show Yip Man with the chief editor of the New Martial Hero magazine.[6] Leung, in turn, has denied the head change.[7] 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.[citation needed] In any case, the crux of the controversy is about seniority, not lineage.
[edit] References
- ^ Ting Leung at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves" at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ 詠春拳術
- ^ Elmond Leung WingTsun
- ^ [1]
- ^ A Scandal of the Wing-Chun School (1979-09-05). Retrieved on 2006-11-20.
- ^ Senft, Markus (1999-09-05). The Change-head Incident Interview. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.
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