History of Wing Tsun
Tradition has it that WingTsun which translates as “Beautiful Springtime” was founded over 250 years ago in southern China by the Buddhist nun Ng Mui who needed to devise a system to overcome the “hard” techniques of Shaolin Kung-Fu. Her first student was a young girl called Yim WingTsun after whom this system is named. Wing Tsun was originally taught secretly to small groups until the late Great Grandmaster Yip Man arrived in Hong Kong and popularised it. One of his students was the actor and martial artist Bruce Lee who began his WingTsun training at the age of 13.
In 1976 Great Grandmaster Leung Ting began his worldwide proliferation of WingTsun with a visit to Germany and while there adopted as his disciple the now Grandmaster Keith R. Kernspecht, founder and chief instructor of the European Wing Tsun Organisation. Since then the IWTA has gone on to be one of the largest martial art organisations in world with schools in over 63 countries. Leung Ting WingTsun has been taught in Ireland for nearly 20 years now with the IEWTO headed by Dai-Sifu Rainer Tausend (6 th Level Master).
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