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He was a notable member of Leung Ting's Wing Tsun organisation until 2002, when he formed his own organisation.
" Boztepe also began training in Latosa Escrima, which Kernspecht's German Wing Tsun Organization had decided to make part of the family in 1982.
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.
Wing Chun (), also romanised as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun, ( and sometimes substituted with the characters 永春 " eternal springtime "); ( also known as Snake-Crane style ); is a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense utilising both striking and grappling while specialising in close-range combat.
Wing Tsun ( alternatively 詠春, " chant spring ") is a branch of Wing Chun, led by Leung Ting.
The particular phonetic spelling of 詠春 as Wing Tsun was picked by the branch founder Leung Ting to differentiate his branch from the others.
The main objective of Wing Tsun ( or WT as it is commonly abbreviated ) is to be a realistic system of self-defense.
The main difference between Wing Tsun and other Wing Chun styles is the WT teaching method.
This idea was later expanded upon by Keith Kernspecht, head of the European Wing Tsun Organization based in Germany, by introducing many of the WT specific forms ( like the leg forms ).
As a descendant of Wing Chun, Wing Tsun shares much of the same history.
The official lineage of Wing Tsun, leading up to Leung Ting, is as follows:
The eight principles of Wing Tsun form a system of aggressive self-defense that allows one to adapt immediately to the size, strength and fighting style of an attacker.
This counter intuitive reaction will often surprise the attacker, and moves the fight into a close distance in which tactile reflexes will dominate over visual reactions, where the Wing Tsun practitioner is likely to have an advantage.
# Follow through ( 迫步追形 ) As an extension of the first principle, if an opponent retreats, a Wing Tsun practitioner's immediate response is to continue moving forward, not allowing the opponent to recover and have an opportunity to reconsider his strategy of attack.
Wing Tsun training is based on developing reflexes.
Training is split into various forms, many of which are only learned when a martial artist has passed the student levels of Wing Tsun.
One of the features of Wing Tsun that differ it from other branches of wing chun is anti-grappling and ground fighting trainings.
Unlike grappling martial arts that wrestle on the ground or other styles which borrow grappling techniques from such arts, Wing Tsun uses its own principles on the ground to overcome the opponent.
The Wing Tsun Siu Nim Tao or " little idea form " features a leg form in addition to the traditional hand movements.

Wing and long
Longtime Wing Sergei Fedorov signed with the Mighty Ducks as a free agent during the offseason after a long contract dispute.
Lee concluded that the fight had lasted too long and that he had failed to live up to his potential using his Wing Chun techniques.
It was not long before Ellsworth and the 28th Bomb Wing were taking the lead in the AEF concept.
Wing lengths ( not wingspans ) are about in males and in females ; the tarsus is about long, and the bill.
In addition to the long list of real life distinguished individuals that served as officers of the Cambridge Union during their time in Cambridge, Will Bailey, a fictional character on The West Wing, a US television drama series, claimed to have been a " former president of Cambridge Union on a Marshall Scholarship ".
In the early 16th century the abbey ( along with the manor of Wing ) was seized by the Crown and given to Cardinal Wolsey, however not long after it was seized once again in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and given to Lord Dormer.
* The 108 moves of the Yang Taijiquan long form and 108 moves in the Wing Chun wooden dummy form, taught by Yip Man, are noted in this regard.
Garofalo's long stint on the final season of the NBC drama The West Wing ( as Louise Thornton, media strategist for Jimmy Smits ' character, presidential candidate Matt Santos ) did not allow her to be in New York to co-host The Majority Report for several weeks ; this allowed Sam to make the program his own, and she acknowledged that this had a part to play in her decision to leave.
Not long after the wing proudly took on the title of The Statue of Liberty Wing, the wing ’ s comptroller discovered the factory that had produced the actual Statue of Liberty was only 25 miles from Chaumont.
The name of Leung Jan's Pharmacy has been the source of dispute for a long time amongst Wing Chun Masters.
Criticisms of Green Wing include the lazzi methods of filming and the overall length of the episodes, claiming that hour-long episodes are too long.
The third program, Air War College ( AWC ) is also a year long program and selects students from the same sources as ACSC, but the minimum rank for attendance rises to Lieutenant Colonel, Commander, Wing Commander or equivalent or DoD civil servants in the grade of GS-14.
A native of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Blight had a long and varied career in the sport of hockey, playing the position of Right Wing for teams in the NHL, MJHL, WCHL, CHL, and the AHL hockey leagues.
A long tunnel was discovered in Cell 7 in C Wing in 1980.
One example of this is the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing which is sometimes described as a revival of a long dormant order last awarded in the eighteenth century but also described as a new order created in 2004.
On 17 November 1947, the 7th Bombardment Wing was established to organize and train a force capable of immediate and sustained long range offensive warfare and operations in any part of the world.
Because of local preference to keep the old routing of Highway 371 as part of the state trunk highway system, it was agreed that portions of other highways in the surrounding area would be turnbacked instead: MN 18 from MN 210 to MN 25, and the two-block long MN 322 would be given to the city of Brainerd maintenance, and MN 25 north of MN 210 to its terminus at Merrifield would be given to Crow Wing County maintenance as an extension of CR 3.
The sojourn in Ceylonese capital did not last long, however, as the Wing Commander was taken by Colonel John Coughlin of the OSS to meet Lord Mountbatten at Kandy.
Talkback has a long track record of producing popular shows including Smack the Pony, Green Wing, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge, QI, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, They Think It's All Over ?, House Doctor and The Apprentice.
Activated in June 1952 as a Strategic Air Command very long range reconnaissance squadron at Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico, but not operational until it absorbed residual resources of 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing in October 1952 when the 55th was reassgigned to the newly activated Forbes AFB, Kansas administratively.
Then in 1879 they began a long association with John Hare as joint-managers of the St. James's Theatre, where they presented a large number of Arthur Wing Pinero plays, among many others.

Wing and pole
With time, a proficient Wing Tsun pole expert can maneuver the pole as easily as if it were a chopstick.
The Wing Tsun pole is simple, direct and deadly.
After learning the Wing Tsun pole form, a student is taught chi-gwun ( pole clinging exercise ).
" In contrast to the kung fu movies where two opponents strike pole against pole repeatedly until one goes for the kill, Wing Tsun pole fighting aims to dispatch the opponent immediately after initial contact is made.
He taught Wong Wah-bo his pole fighting skill in exchange for the Wing Chun fist-fighting skill.
Though he was a student of Wong in Wing Chun, he was actually Wong's sifu in the pole fighting skill.
Wong modified the pole fighting skills using Wing Chun principles.
The modified pole skill is now part of Wing Chun training.

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