‘Five Venoms’ action director jailed

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by Mark Pollard | November 21, 2009

Leung Ting

Kung fu grandmaster and former fight choreographer Leung Ting has been sentenced to two months in jail in Hong Kong for attacking his girlfriend.

Leung is best known to genre film fans as an action director on several classic kung fu movies including THE CHINATOWN KID and THE FIVE VENOMS. He is also the founder of the International Wing Tsun Association.

Leung, 62, was released on HK$50,000 bail pending appeal. He was accused by his former girlfriend, Rita Lip Sik-ying, of banging her head against the floor, kicking her in the stomach and boxing her ears during a dispute over one of Leung’s former wives.

In testimony, Leung refuted the claims, stating that Lip had become angry after he refused to give her HK$50,000 for an abortion. He claimed she became hysterical and tried to jump out of a window so he grabbed her arm and neck to save her. He also claimed Lip hit her own head against the floor, banged on the neighbors’ doors and shouted, “Leung Ting is hitting a woman.”

In speaking to Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily, Lip, 45, described Leung as a womanizer who had many girlfriends.

This isn’t the first time Leung has been at the center of controversy. In 2005, he took a former pupil of 25 years to court over claims of copyright infringement related to the use of school logos.

Leung has also created controversy in the martial arts world by claiming to be the last closed-door student of Wing Chun master Yip Man and the head of the Wing Chun School. These claims have not been recognized by Yip Man’s family or students.

Source: The Standard

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  • RICHARD (TIGER) GUERRA
    I WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN TOP STUDENT OF GRANDMASTER LEUNG TING IN TEXAS USA- I SPENT MANY HOURS AND 5 YEARS AS HIS STUDENT- I FOUGHT MANY MARTIAL ARTISTS IN FROM MANY STYLES WHO WERE GREAT FIGTHERS AND I BEAT THEM ALL - - SI-FU MASTER LEUNG TING MY TEACHER IS INNOCENT OF ALL THIS GARBAGE FROM MISS LIP- PLEASE KNOW THAT A MAN SUCH AS SI-FU LEUNG TING IS A TARGET OF WOMEN LIKE MISS LIP WHO ONLY WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HIM FOR MONEYS SAKE, SI- FU LEUNG TING TAUGHT ME WING TSUN - AND I STAND ON HIS SIDE TO SUPPORT HIM--- SICERELY MASTER RICHARD M. GUERRA --SUNFISTFILMS@YAHOO.COM AUSTIN TEXAS USA
  • darrinkemp
    I get what you are saying,and perhaps Leung Ting sifu needs to choose his companions a little more carefully.Having said that,you as a prominent Wing Chun sifu must conceede that the behavior of many in the Wing Chun community has in the past given the entire Kung fu community a black eye.
  • LittlebrotherChing
    Having worked with Grandmaster Leung Ting, I find this all to be very unlikely. He has an incredible gentle personality and has always expressed true hospitality and respect to the people around him. It's unfortunate that people rush to kick him down when he's in a bad place, and on top of that, exploit the problems of a young confused woman. Anyone who writes such nasty things on these messageboards about another human being does exactly the opposite of martial arts teachings.
  • MASTER RICHARD M. GUERRA
    MY SI-FU LEUNG TING HAS BEEN WRONGLY ACCUSED OF INJURY TO HIS EX GIRL FRIEND THIS IS A TACTIC BY A GOLDDGGER WHO HURT HER SELF AND TO BLAME LEUNG SI-FU IN ORDER TO GET THOSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM HIM FROM BOOK RIGHTS OR MOVIE DEALS. LEUNG TING SI-FU HAS BEEN FRAMED- MASTER RICHARD M. GUERRA AUSTIN TX USA
  • DOLORES GUERRA
    leung ting also lied to the china daily newspaper a few months ago- that former top- wing tsun fighter master RICHARD (TIGER )GUERRA OF austin tx usa challenged him in 1978-or 1980 in los angeles at one of tings seminars - a total lie by ting to make himself look great. master guerra is also an 8th dan in SORYU KARATE 43 yrs experiance and a full contact fighter, who has beat many wing tsun fighters. ting is a lier about MASTER GUERRA CHALLENGING HIM. in fact GUERRA SI-FU APPEARED ONCE ON THE COVER WITH TING in BLACK BELT MAGAZINE july 1982 issue
  • raphma
    before criticizing anyone about what he did or not and if he had been recognized or not by anyone in the ip man's "ving tsun association", you should all have done your home works as journalist and check the things written by ip mans sons themselves on the internet's website. leung ting was since the latest 70' the president and secretary of this association in recognition of his work as closed-door student. euh... wasn't it Leung ting that became the official technician and teacher of the koow loon street wing tsun school in the last year of living of Ip man? established by Ip man himself ?

    so what ever he did or not to a woman or anyone in hong kong, it is not sure that he did what she says. knowing a lot about chinese living culture, because of living there a few years, i can say that money is a reason enough for any woman or bad person to make some trouble when you are rich and well known: look michael jackson when he had that children sex problems and after paying the money they wanted ... oups... no problems anymore;
    injustice is insane and bad in both ways
  • raphma
    the claim that he didn't be recognized as the last offical student of ip man is wrong; the two sons of ip man , ip chung and ip ying and all the well known students of ip man like ng yuen and chun has offered him to became the president of the ip man "wing tsun association" since the 70' and he became with 18 under ip man 's living years , the technical instructor officially of ip mans school, and it was not one of his sons or older students!!!! see the official website of ip mans "ving tsun assiocation" on the net, and you will see that leund ting is still the secretary of the asso.
  • Moviestar
    It is really a shame that such thing could happen!!!!! Leung Ting,don't u know that tolerance is the key to learning martial arts?????
  • greg
    grandmaster pimp fu
  • jiujitsu77
    isn't he that Emin Botzepe's teacher? the one that decided it was time to attempt to grapple william cheung during a seminar? classy
  • zetaGundam
    Disgraceful to martial arts... he should be stripped of being called sifu!
  • jiujitsu77
    Leung Ting is seriously a wanker
  • Kent108
    Wing Chun guys in general have long known Leung Ting to be an a**hole who is all lies and nothing else. A sick, unfunny joke.
  • Bruce
    You mean Grandmaster of Comprehension Leung Ting? Seriously, that's a title this assclown gave himself. What an egotistical joke, regardless of what did or didn't happen with his girlfriend.
  • darrinkemp
    what the hell is a grandmaster of comprehension?what does that even mean?i do northern style,always have,but i like wing chun.hell all kung fu is good,but this whole shaw bros. my teacher is better than your teacher lets fight childish bull shit is old.you never see this in any other kung fu style so why wing chun?
  • darrinkemp
    Can you imagine how much time a kung fu sifu would get in this country(USA) for kicking his girl friend? Christ!
  • SI FU RICHARD M GUERRA
    MISS LIP IS THE ONE WHO HURT HERSELF AND BLAMES LEUNG TING FOR HER INJURIES - WHY WOULD AN INTELLIGENT MAN TRY TO DESTROY HIS SELF WITH A WOMAN LIKE MISS LIP-- ITS NONESENSE I KNOW SI-FU AND HE IS ABOVE HITTING ANYONE - ESPECIALLY A WOMAN
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