Leung Ting
| Leung Ting | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 February 1947 Hong Kong |
| Style | Wing Chun, Wing Tsun |
| Teacher(s) | Leung Sheung, Yip Man |
| Rank | 10 th level m.o.c. founder wingtsun kuen |
| Notable students | Keith R. Kernspecht, Emin Boztepe |
Leung Ting (Chinese: 梁挺; pinyin: Liáng Tǐng; born 28 February 1947 in Hong Kong) is the founder and permanent president of the International WingTsun Association.[1]
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.[2] Leung was the director and screenwriter for It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Kung Fu World! (大踢爆), a humouristic documentary on the history and culture of kung fu.[3][4] 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.[5] He has also served on the board of directors for the Ving Tsun Athletic association from 1996-1997.
On 20 November 2009, Leung was sentenced to two months in prison for assaulting his former girlfriend, which was later quashed. Regina Lip Sik-ying testified that Leung banged her head against the floor, kicked her in the stomach and boxed her ears. Leung testified that he pulled Lip down from a window where she was threatening to commit suicide, and that she then fell and hit her head. Leung remained free pending appeal.[6] On 29 April 2010, the conviction was quashed by Court of First Instance Judge Darryl Gordon Saw. Judge Saw ruled that the medical reports did not support Lip's testimony but did support Leung's testimony. Leung was cleared of all charges.[7][8]
Lineage 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. Thus, in addition to disputes about Leung's seniority (among Yip's students), there is also some question about his actual lineage. However, photo evidence is existing that shows that Yip Man did visit Leung Ting's wedding, which suggests that he was a student of Yip Man.[9]
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 shows Yip Man with the chief editor of the New Martial Hero magazine.[10] Leung, in turn, has denied the head change and further claimed that Yip Man himself who told the reporter from New Martial Heroes that Leung was his closed door student in the article.[11] Other photo evidence shows Leung at Yip Man's funeral with an armband that apparently denotes a rank other than first generation (i.e., an armband that indicates that Leung was considered to be a grandstudent of Yip Man's rather than a direct student.).[10]
References
- ↑ "Wing Tsun Worldwide". Kung Fu Magazine. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
- ↑ Ting Leung at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Kung Fu World!!! at Hong Kong Movie Database
- ↑ Dai tek baau
- ↑ Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ "Kung fu master found guilty of beating girlfriend". The Standard. 20 November 2009.
- ↑ Chiu, A (30 April 2010). "Kung fu master's conviction quashed". South China Morning Post.
- ↑ "Leung Ting assault involving former girlfriend acquittal". Hong Kong Daily News (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 May 2010.
- ↑ http://www.leungting.com/images/stories/newphoto-09-Le.gif
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "A Scandal of the Wing-Chun School". 5 September 1979. Retrieved 20 November 2006.
- ↑ Senft, Markus (5 September 1999). "The Change-head Incident Interview". Retrieved 20 November 2006.
