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{{Short description|Hong Kong martial artist, publisher, choreographer, screenwriter, director and actor}}

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[[File:LTing22.jpg|thumb|Leung Ting with his class of students in November 1990]]

'''Leung Ting''' ({{lang-zh|c=梁挺}}; born 28 February 1947) is a Hong Kong [[martial artist]], publisher, choreographer, screenwriter, director, and former actor. He is also the founder of International WingTsun Association. He was a student of Leung Sheung and later become the last student of grandmaster [[Yip Man]].

==Background==

<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Leung_Ting.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Grandmaster Leung Ting]] -->'''Leung Ting''' ([[1947]] - Present) is the founder and permanent president of the International WingTsun Association.

Born in [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] in 1947, he was originally a student of Leung Sheung, and later become a closed door disciple of [[Yip Man]],.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Leung|first=Ting|title=About Dr Leung Ting|url=https://www.leungting.com/about|website=leungting.com}}</ref> Appointed by Grandmaster [[Ip Man]], Leung served as head instructor on the board of directors for the Ving Tsun Athletic association between Dec 1969 to May 1970, before leaving to found his own Association. Leung Ting is the founder and president of the International WingTsun Association.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=292|title=Wing Tsun Worldwide|work=[[Kung Fu Magazine]]|accessdate=6 February 2010}}</ref>

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.

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 (linguistics)|Cantonese]]; the Chinese characters remain the same.)

Leung chose the spelling of [[Wing Tsun]] 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 writtingwriting about WingTsunWing Tsun, Leung has been a fight director in some [[Hong Kong]] films. Leung was the director and screenwriter for ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Kung Fu World!'' (大踢爆), a humoristic documentary on the history and culture of [[kung fu]]. 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.

===Filmography===

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]].[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0648646/]

*Fight [[choreographer]]: [[Five Deadly Venoms]]

*Fight choreographer: The Brave Archer Part II

*Fight choreographer: Ten Tigers of Kwangtung

*Fight choreographer: Heaven and Hell

*Fight choreographer: Stranger from Shaolin

*Fight choreographer: Invincible Shaolin

*Fight choreographer: Life Gamble

*Director and screenwriter: 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Kung Fu World!'' (大踢爆)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=8609&display_set=eng|title=It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Kung Fu World!!! (2000)|website=hkmdb.com}}</ref>

==Lineage controversy==

Some of Yip Man's students have disputed whether Leung Ting could be considered a closed door disciple of Yip Man, some going as far as to question whether Leung ever studied directly under [[Ip Man]], including [[William Cheung]] and most notably including [[Ip Chun]], Ip Man's eldest son and co-author of the book written with Leung Ting, 116 Wing Tsun Dummy Techniques (1981). Ip claimed "我老豆最憎最嬲係梁挺呢個人！" (My father dislike this person Leung Ting the most!) and also "唔係葉問徒弟" (Leung Ting is not Yip Man's student).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.singtao.ca/vancouver/2010-03-02/entertainment1267512978d2343751.html/|title=梁挺獲同門好友力撐清白|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126012742/http://news.singtao.ca/vancouver/2010-03-02/entertainment1267512978d2343751.html|archive-date=26 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20100530/14082612/|title= 被指非詠春宗師葉問弟子梁挺控葉準誹謗索償}}</ref> In response to Ip Chun's accusations, Leung Ting organised a public press conference in Hong Kong in May 2010 to showcase photographic evidence of his own close direct relationship with Yip Man.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/news/art/20100530/14082612|title=被指非詠春宗師葉問弟子 梁挺控葉準誹謗索償|date=30 May 2010|website=hk.apple.nextmedia.com}}</ref> Existing photo evidence shows that Leung Ting did appear with Yip Man in numerous high-profile events, including the only 2 interviews Yip Man ever conducted,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kwokwingchun.com/about-wing-chun/ip-mans-wing-chun/interview--with-grandmaster-yip-man/|title=Interview with grandmaster Yip Man|date=1972|website=Kwokwingchun.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1972 |title=An interview with grandmaster Yip Man |url=https://mywayofwingchun.com/2013/07/10/interview-with-wing-chun-grandmaster-yip-man-1972/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209214637/https://mywayofwingchun.com/2013/07/10/interview-with-wing-chun-grandmaster-yip-man-1972/ |archive-date=9 December 2022 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=My Way of Wing Chun |publisher=New Martial Hero magazine}}</ref> private lessons,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ewingchun.com/lineage/ip-man-leung-ting?page=13|title=(Ip Man) Leung ting}}</ref> Leung Ting's wedding,<ref>http://www.leungting.com/images/stories/newphoto-09-Le.gif {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> and public martial art demonstrations. Leung Ting publicly threatened to initiate a defamation claim against Ip Chun if an apology and withdrawal of accusations was not received. Ip Chun has since been quiet on this matter.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20100530/00176_026.html|title=梁挺駁葉準言論促道歉|date=30 May 2010|via=oriental daily}}</ref>

{| border cellpadding=5 class="prettytable"

| colspan="2" align="center" | Lineage in Wing Chun

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|[[sifu]]||[[Yip Man]]

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|[[sihing]]||[[Leung Sheung]]

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| colspan="2" align="center" | &nbsp;<br>'''Leung Ting''' <br>&nbsp;

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|training partner||Cheng Chuen Fun (Hong Kong)

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|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)

|}

In other evidence, in one of the only 2 interviews Yip Man ever conducted before his death, Leung Ting was mentioned by Yip Man as one of his closed door disciples in New Martial Hero magazine 1972, copy 56, page 31, paragraph 2, line 5 - '''教師梁挺係其一位封門弟子'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kwokwingchun.com/about-wing-chun/ip-mans-wing-chun/interview--with-grandmaster-yip-man/|title=an interview with grandmaster yip man|date=1972}}</ref> ('''Instructor Leung Ting is a closed door disciple'''). Photos from the interview show Leung was with Yip man during the time.

==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 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<ref name="NewMartialHero">

The controversy had been in part fuelled by past allegations that a photo Leung presented showing him with Yip Man was altered from a photograph that shows Yip Man with the chief editor of the ''New Martial Hero'' magazine.<ref name="NewMartialHero">{{cite web|url=http://vingtsun.virtue.nu/|title=A Scandal of the Wing-Chun School|last=Kung Tze|first=Hsuan|date=5 September 1979|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224170232/http://vingtsun.virtue.nu/|archive-date=24 February 2007|url-status=dead|accessdate=20 November 2006}}</ref> Leung has denied the head change,<ref name="interview">

{{cite web

{{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|last=Senft|first=Markus|date=5 September 1999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312225721/http://www.leungting.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=44&lang=en|archive-date=12 March 2012|url-status=dead|accessdate=20 November 2006}}</ref> claiming that the editor of New Martial Hero had pasted his own head over Leung's for the article. Evidence shows Leung's photo to be uncropped and at a higher resolution to the magazine's published photo.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Truth Behind Fake Leung Ting & Clarification of theHead-Changing Incident | date=27 January 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetNErlocpo |access-date=2024-03-05 |language=en}}</ref> 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 a grand-student of Yip Man's rather than a direct student).<ref name="NewMartialHero"/>

| url = http://vingtsun.virtue.nu/

| title = A Scandal of the Wing-Chun School

==Other controversy==

| accessdate = 2006-11-20

On 20 November 2009, Leung was acquitted of a two-month prison sentence for allegedly assaulting his former girlfriend, Regina Lip Sik-ying, a claim which was later quashed. Lip testified that Leung hit her after a heated argument involving Leung's ex-wife. Leung testified that Lip fell when Leung pulled her down from a window where she threatened to commit suicide after Leung refused to provide $5000 for plane tickets and an abortion. On hearing the verdict Leung shouted 'Objection!', and even shouted ''bullshit'' at the judge during the court case.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Standard|date=20 November 2009|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=90856&sid=26157181&con_type=1&d_str=20091120&isSearch=1&sear_year=2009|title=Kung fu master found guilty of beating girlfriend|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301194302/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=90856&sid=26157181&con_type=1&d_str=20091120&isSearch=1&sear_year=2009|archive-date=1 March 2014}}</ref> 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. Leung was cleared of all charges.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scmp.com/article/712968/kung-fu-masters-conviction-quashed|title=Kung fu master's conviction quashed|last=Chiu|first=Austin|date=30 April 2010|work=[[South China Morning Post]]|access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Leung Ting assault involving former girlfriend acquittal|work=Hong Kong Daily News|url=http://www.hkdailynews.com.hk/news.php?id=98703|language=zh|accessdate=8 May 2010}}</ref>

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}}</ref> . Leung, in turn, has denied the head change.<ref name="interview">

{{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

}}</ref> 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.

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==External links==

*{{IMDb name | id=1098230 | name=Ting Leung }}

*[http://www.wtdefense.com/ggmlt.html Biography of Leung Ting]

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