- Leung Ting
Leung Ting (born 1947) is the founder and permanent president of the International WingTsun Association.Fact|date=January 2008
Leung chose the spelling of
WingTsun to differentiate his teachings from those of otherWing 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. [Imdb name | id=1098230 | name=Ting Leung ]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 byChris Crudelli . [Imdb title| id=0648646 | title="Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves"]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.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.cite web
url = http://vingtsun.virtue.nu/
title = A Scandal of the Wing-Chun School
accessdate = 2006-11-20
last =
first =
date = 1979-09-05] Leung, in turn, has denied the head change.cite web
url = http://www.leungting.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=44&lang=en
title = The Change-head Incident Interview
accessdate = 2006-11-20
last = Senft
first = Markus
date = 1999-09-05] 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.Fact|date=January 2008 In any case, the crux of the controversy is about seniority, not lineage.References
External links
* [http://www.wtdefense.com/ggmlt.html Biography of Leung Ting]
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