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- Leung Ting became the first of Grandmaster Yip Man’s students to heavily promote WingTsun in Hong Kong through magazines, newspaper articles and even TV. Leung Ting’s school become so full that the Hong Kong press called him the “millionaire kung-fu instructor!"
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Leung Ting is the founder and president of the International Wing Tsun Association. Appointed by Grandmaster Ip Man , Leung served as head instructor on the board of directors for the Ving Tsun Athletic association from Dec 1969 to May 1970, before leaving to found his own Association.
4 days ago · From 1970 to 1971, Leung Ting devoted all his energy to promoting the development of Wing Tsun Kungfu by organising public shows and T.V. shows, accepting press and radio interviews, besides sending his own students to participate in various tournaments.
- The Start of A Great Career as Martial Artist
- Helped His Friend in A Street Fight
- A Hard Working Student of Wing Tsun
- To Become A School Teacher of Kungfu Instructor?
- Becoming Grandmaster Yip Man’S “Closed-Door” Student
- The First Wing Tsun Class in College
- The Glamorous Kungfu Show
- The “Successor Event”
- Entered The Movie Circle
- More Than 20 Years Later GGM Leung Ting re-entered The Movie Circle.
The ambitious child Leung Ting’s past story, like his present life, is colourful. It was said that he became ambitious ever since he was four or five years old. At that time he loved drawing – with a piece of chalk in hand, he could draw a warship large enough to cover the whole wall of his house, over-loaded with aeroplanes, guns, large chimneys, ...
One night Leung Ting, his friend and a cousin of his friend were having a walk in a street. The cousin of his friend got into trouble with a gang of youngsters, who, taking advantage of their numbers, attacked him altogether. Leung Ting could not allow so many people to bully one. With an angry shout, he threw himself over the twenty or so outlaws!...
It was Cheng Fook, one of Leung Ting’s uncles, who took another view of the boy after taking care of his wounds. He thought that a boy’s characters could not be changed, whether he was taught kungfu or not. So, he would rather teach him some skills of self-defence than to allow him to be bullied. With the approval of Leung Ting’s mother, Chen Fook ...
During the first year in the Baptist College, Leung Ting was not hard-pressed with school work. He had been thinking of having a part-time job as an evening school teacher, only to find out the pay for this kind of job was miserably low. At this moment one of his younger kungfu brothers suggested to him that he should give martial art tuition to a ...
By an opportunate chance, Leung Ting was introduced by Kwok Keung, his second elder kungfu brother, to Yip Man the Great Grandmaster and recognised successor of Wing Tsun Style. Not long before that time, Grandmaster Yip Man had for a period been hospitalized for treatment of stomach ache. Returning from hospital, Grandmaster Yip determined to reti...
In the winter of 1968, Leung Ting opened a Wing Tsun class in the Baptist College – the first Chinese martial art class to be run in a post-secondary institute in Hong Kong. Before this, there was never a kungfu class in any academic institute, because martial arts and martial artists were all the time being despised, and kungfu was merely regarded...
In December, 1969, Leung Ting held a “Wing Tsun Kungfu Show & Tournament” in the campus of Baptist College. The meanings of this event were three-fold: first, it was the first open demonstration and contest of Wing Tsun Kungfu ever since Grandmaster Yip Man began to promote the Wing Tsun System in Hong Kong. Secondly, though all the contestors in t...
Something did eventually happened. At this moment, Leung Ting, besides managing the affairs of his own gymnasiums, was helping two of his friends in publishing an international martial art magazine – The “Real Kung Fu”. Leung Ting wrote in several issues of the magazine. Among his essays, one was particularly worth mentioning – “Seeds of the Wing T...
The “Successor Event” had finally brought Leung Ting more honour than insult, as reflected in the fact that the “Real Kung Fu” TV programme, in which a large number of kungfu masters, including numbers of two big martial-art general associations appeared to support it, became a favourite item. As a side-effect of this, the number of students attend...
Return to the gymnasiums Though being successful in the movie circle, Leung Ting was all the time worried about his own ability for his new job, especially when he realized the complicated inter-personal relations in the movie circle. The next year, when he had finished directing the sixth kungfu film, he returned to his own gymnasium. One month la...
Jan 27, 2023 · Leung Ting characterizes Wing Tsun as “a very direct and scientific form of self-defense. Its emphasis”, he says, “is on simple movements such a punch or a kick to defeat an enemy. The system also avoids the contention of forces in combat.” He explains it as being something arithmetic.
Grandmaster Leung Ting, founder of the International WingTsun™ Association (IWTA), began teaching WingTsun™ kung fu in 1967 as an amateur instructor.
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His uncle, who practiced the art of Wing Tsun then decided to help this by presenting it to his nephew Leung Sheung, the senior student of Hong Kong Ip Man, who accepted him as a student. The young man devoted himself to Kung Fu, so as to endanger his school career.
