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In Grandmaster Leung Ting awarded him the 10th master grade, which only he had previously held. He continues to work on the further development of this training programme to the present day. The flow of information for the approx. In GM Kernspecht conceived the idea of not merely teaching WingTsun in the traditional way, but to teach it scientifically and disseminate it via the universities, whereupon he reembarked on his educational studies to gain a master's degree.
By Kernspecht had already become a visiting professor for sports science at one of the world's largest sports faculties — the National Sports Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. He also received a visiting professorship for education and martial arts from the State University of Plovdiv, which in awarded him the first honorary doctorate in martial arts in recognition of his achievements in this field.
In the time finally arrived when together with the State University of Plovdiv and under the aegis of Prof. Margaritov, later to become Sports Minister, he was able to organise the first course of study in sports education specialising in WingTsun with approx. The overwhelming majority of these completed their studies with a bachelor's or master's degree, and two of them have since gone on to receive a doctorate. In GM Kernspecht, who had meanwhile become an honorary member of the University's academic council, was awarded an honorary professorship by the Sports Academy in Sofia.
Although Kernspecht teaches almost every day of the week, he still finds time for international activities in support of the martial arts. After some financial problems occurred with his master, Kernspecht, Boztepe headed to his master's master, Leung Ting, and took special lessons from him until a financial dispute, which caused him to leave the Wing Tsun organisation. Boztepe was romantically linked with English actress Jacqueline Bisset from until From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Who would win this matchup of Jujutsu and Wing Chun fighters? Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. I don't even feel betrayed because I know you have no choice. I'm fully aware of the position you are in and how you must sacrifice your integrity on a regular basis for Mr. Here is some advice for you next time you attack me my dear Robin. Why don't you say that I just hung around Mr. Leung a lot to get all these photos? Or say that I created the certificates in photoshop?
Or, that I really only learned from your si-fu, Lee Yun Tim? Leung Ting came to NYC often but didn't actually teach me anything? These are all more believable than the "one week" attack. Come on Robin, you need to do better. But Robin, please be advised that this post represents only a small fraction of what I have and it's not even the best stuff! Kung Fu Genius is my new nickname as I've somehow managed to more successful than Mr. Leung's American country boys. And think I did it with only one week of training! S Hey Robin, do you remember when you wrote this below in my Chi Sau book?
Is that how it works? Love Note From Robin The heart and arrow are mine because I feel warm and fuzzy when I read this. Leung's um, I mean "Robin's" libelous statement. I personally didn't care, Mr. Leung has done the same or worse to others. However I am writing this article slightly to appease my good friends who were offended on my behalf. It's awkward for me to defend my credentials, but I want to show that this is business as usual for the IWTA. Also by exposing a very small selection of Mr. Leung's emails the reader can get a feeling for his penchant for trickery and his strange temperament.
Why don't they say I learn for one day or maybe one hour? This is just what they normally do. Look how worried this handsome guy is about being the latest victim of the IWTA's famous multi-colored font attack! I suppose it's a badge of honor to be attacked by Mr. It only happens when he feels threatened. But these days he must feel threatened by everyone because his US and Hong Kong associations are clearly falling apart.
He can show big numbers in eastern Europe, where many participants are forced to attend seminars. The facade of a "big worldwide" association is cracking fast. Nearly every single person of note who leaves the IWTA gets similar treatment. For sure there are people who left or got kicked out of the IWTA due to their own misdeeds. However, the fact that Mr. Leung Ting has something bad to say or takes some action on EVERY single high-profile instructor who has left his association for whatever reason is quite telling.
Are financial concerns, family plans, career considerations, or medical reasons for example, never good enough to leave the IWTA? Must one stay locked in for life? You should have seen the letter they sent to my students when I quit! Statistically speaking any large association will have senior members who will eventually drop out for a multitude of reasons. Is that statistically possible? Does the IWTA want to have the reputation of having the "most advanced students" who have "learned nothing"? Because that's what they seem to want to claim.
Does Robin think that if he leaves the association that Mr. Leung would say nice things about his credentials? It doesn't matter who your are! What was the great offense? Sifu Cheng is someone I respect very deeply and I was embarrassed when Mr. Leung called him an idiot in front of me. But it made me realize that this is just who he is.
A mean-spirited angry person and bully. NYC instructor class or Who is that seated next to Sifu Leung Ting? That guy looks familiar! This must be day 2. It seems that Mr.
Leung Ting, in his blind rage of attacking ex-members wholesale has shot himself in his foot. Leung Ting has put himself in a bad spot. By way of Mr. So which one is Mr. Is he his ranking system a con, is he a bad teacher, or is he suffering from amnesia? Which one is it? The only other possibility is that he is just lying about his ex-members, but we would never assume that now, right? It must be one of the three I listed. The issue is that when Mr. Leung denigrates the credentials of people he himself has ranked as a 8th Level Master for example, what is he saying about his ranking system?
What kind of cognitive dissonance does Mr. Leung suffer from when he can bestow Sifu Tam Hung Fun the 8th level, only to say years later that Tam doesn't understand concepts? Read below for more on this case. Leung believe his ranking system has merit, or is it solely a money-making tactic? He seems conflicted on this point. Or perhaps one is only skillful while they are paying the IWTA a fee.
Like when Robin said I was a "rising WT star" in only to call me a "fake" in But to go out of their way to publish lies is unbecoming of one who calls himself not just a grandmaster, but a great grandmaster. Even if he is hiding behind poor little dutiful Robin. Pay attention here folks: All you need is one weak-willed assistant who will do anything to court favor with Mr. You have the recipe to publish lies with someone else's name. Robin, take a good look at this, for this is what you have become. Robin and me in Hong Kong in Friendship means nothing in the IWTA. If you leave the association for any reason the people who knew you for years will not think twice about writing lies about you.
So twisted by Mr. Leung Ting, Robin can sign a piece of paper that says I only learned for one week. For the reader new to the sordid world of WT politics, it's important to understand that nothing the IWTA is doing to me is out of the ordinary. Leung Ting is a notorious blame shifter and it's business as usual that he hid behind his assistant Robin Tsang Ho Bun in the statement against me. Sifu Leung Ting knows that any "mistakes" that may be in the statement can be blamed on Robin.
Leung has unwittingly lowered Robin's status to that of keyboard warrior! The Chinese statement also makes it seem as if Robin really doesn't know me. Again, Insincere Wing Tsun Amnesia is real folks. Robin may no longer really remember me, but I sure as hell remember him. My students do too! Future amnesia victim Robin center, grey sweatshirt and glasses was not only friendly with me, but knew my students as well.
Here we all are in Hungary for Sifu Leung Ting's 60th birthday. Robin was once a friend, or better not to overstate it, a colleague of mine in the "IWTA family". I first met him in April and last saw him in February In those years I met him a number of times in Hong Kong as well as in Hungary. As of this writing we are still Facebook friends. I'm curious how long until he unfriends or blocks me! Anybody who looks at our Facebook pages will see that we have a number of mutual photos together including some of our own students meeting each other at various times and locations. In other words it would be clear to anybody who looked at our mutual Facebook pages that we were friends with a history.
If there is anybody who knows about my background in WT it certainly Robin. As a matter of fact he even praised me in an article he wrote for the news section of the Leung Ting website. Robin is and has been the webmaster for the www. I don't suggest you go to that site, it's horribly designed, full of viruses, and buggy as hell. On second thought, go check it out. It's like going into a time-machine of the early days of the Internet. While you wait for the opening page to load "Flash" you can go cook a steak. On Sifu Leung Koon's left is keyboard warrior Robin Tsang with me seated at the far left of the photo.
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Apparently I was not a "fake" 7 years ago and was a qualified enough Wing Tsun si-fu to be allowed to sit in the front row. Robin must assume I have forgotten all my Wing Tsun or ceased practicing since then. Of course when I quit in Robin scrubbed the Leung Ting website clean of any dirty mentions of "Alex Richter" or my school. The problem is that Robin seems unaware that Google and other websites archive and snapshot older versions of websites.
It's not as simple as Robin thinks to act like the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's Below is an article Robin wrote about me on www. Leung Ting after an instructor class. This photo was on the Leung Ting website along with an article written by Robin which praised my ability as an instructor. It turns out my "one week" learning from Sifu Leung Ting was a really looooooooong week.
Maybe this was day 3. As the promotion ceremony was held right after the instructor tutorial, many HK instructors were there witnessing the event and sharing the sweet moment with Sifu Alex.
Born in America, Sifu Alex firstly received his WingTsun education in Langenzell Castle in Germany for years, and then went back to the States and started his teaching career. Sifu Alex is an excellent WT instructor. He truly knows his stuff and how to teach WingTsun techniques to his students and make sure that they grasp the points. Apparently he could "definitely learn a lot from me" in You are always welcome.
It will be my honour to meet you and show you around Hong Kong. And same feeling on training with you. I would definitely learn a lot from you! Leung said we would ship you the uniform by Speed Post and will be responsible for the shipping fee. There are many in the IWTA that are fully aware of my credentials as well. I wonder what they think when they read Robin's statement? Do they "agree" out of loyalty to the almighty Mr. Do they cower and pretend they didn't read it?
Or do they finally come to the realization that if they themselves leave big brother's IWTA that suddenly their own credentials will vanish? I'm curious how indoctrinated some of my old friends who are still in the IWTA are. Leung coerce them to write a statement whereby they corroborate that I have only one magical week of training? There are many witnesses within the IWTA who can vouch for my credentials, but they won't. They would be immediately ostracized if they spoke up in defense of a former member.
Leung, can be very charming at first. But make no mistake, he will change his tone at any moment if that is Mr. In that way Robin is the perfect successor to Mr. He can be very sweet when he needs to be, but is then immediately capable of trickery and deception. After the Fight Quest debacle which I explain below he helped stage a fake "real" fight on video with an Italian instructor.
It was so poorly staged I don't know why they thought anyone would believe it. Leung needed to save face from the embarrassment of Fight Quest and this was Mr.
Robin had no problem helping stage a completely fabricated fight at Mr. The video was so terribly fake it was taken down very quickly. The Italian student who was in it also exposed Mr. Leung's trick by releasing a number of embarrassing emails. Mind you, these are adults we are talking about.
Why don't they say I learn for one day or maybe one hour? All you need is one weak-willed assistant who will do anything to court favor with Mr. Leung, the IWTA already tried to delete me from history. Do they cower and pretend they didn't read it? Sifu Lau's photos have all been removed from the inside of the book as well meaning this is not just a cover change. Leung realizes that he is now doing the same thing to others that all of his "seniors" did to him in Hong Kong? He's fuzzy on details sometimes.
Adults staging pretend challenge fights. On second thought, why do I want to admit I was with these raging maniacs for more than a week? So for Robin to writes a completely false and libelous statement against me should not come as a shock. He will stage fake fights, delete member histories, and attack his own si-fu Lee Yun Tim in the Internet. Apparently they think that's funny or something. Some of his current and former students in Hong Kong have texted me to apologize on behalf of Robin after his attack. Leung uses in private to call his students.
He even lost his former UK chief instructor when Mr. Leung admitted this fact to him. Some of his Mr. Leung's most famous students have "loyal idiot" in their email addresses! How Robin has the audacity to attack my credentials through lying is understandable. Quite frankly he is Mr. I'm sure it would be more shocking to find out what Robin isn't willing to do for Mr. But it seems to be justified all in the name of the IWTA. Well let's discuss something Robin would like to forget!
My student Mike Yahn and myself are far right. We were both excluded from fighting in the finale because we are non-Asian. However Robin was too afraid to fight as were all of the other Chinese students in the Leung Ting gym. Only one of my NYC-based Korean fighters was willing to fight. To make a long story short, Robin was too afraid to fight in the finale of the show.
Two other eligible Asian Wing Tsun fighters, both of whom were not from Mr. Seemingly Robin and his si-hing-dai would be the likely candidates to fight. What did they do? They all crapped the bed and refused to fight. The whole Fight Quest debacle is a whole other story in itself. Check out the link in the notes below. Can you believe there was not a single fighter in the "International HQ" who was willing to fight?
Yet Robin would love people to believe that his regular training with Mr. Leung somehow makes him an authority beyond reproach. Then why was Robin, with all his amazing Hong Kong training, afraid to fight? With Robin's years of "Hong Kong" training and teaching he also couldn't produce a student who could fight. With my "one week" of training with Mr. Leung I had people who could fight! Check out the email below with Mr.
Leung pleading to get my Korean fighter over to HK.