European Ving Tsun Kung Fu Association - Bulgaria

Fact is that no one can be sure of how the style called Ving Tsun was invented. And it is also to be said, that the style in its beginning days surly wasn't look like the style that we know today. Probably there were some ideas, concepts, resulting of former experiences, that started a development that brought the elements of our style together. And all the time, the style had gone through tests under real conditions (life/death-situations). What works went on, what didn't was eliminated (the practioner simply lost his life in combat). Like an evolution. As I mentioned above, the beginnings are not clear- maybe its origins came from the siu lam monastry and maybe it was used by the Ming rebels to assasin their political opponents. The first generations Ving Tsun-practioner were those of the red junk opera using their skills to protect theirselves. Famous persons, whose names we are still know today, were Leung Yee Tai, Wong Wah Bo, Dai Fa Min Kam and others. Dai Fa MinKam was quasi the founder of the Yuen Kai San lineage, while Leung Yee Tai and Wong Wah Bo are the persons who laid the foundation of the style we practise. They thought Leung Jan, known as the king of Ving Tsun, who was followed by his strongest student, the tall Chan Wah Shun (Jiao-Chin Wah - money changer Wah). This man thought his Ving Tsun in Fatshan (Foshan) to a small group (16 persons) and his last disciple was Yip Man. When Chan passed away, Yip Man was thought on by Chans most senior Student, Ng Jung So. After a time, Yip Man, son of a very wealthy family, left Fatshan to continue his school education in Hong Kong. There he met Leung Bik, the son of Leung Jan, who tought him the more progressive concepts of Ving Tsun (it is said, that Chan Wah Shun was a very tall and strong man, so Leung Bik can not handle him and finally was forced to leave the VT-affairs to Chan. In contradiction to the tall Chan, Leung was a small and very clever guy, with a very good understanding of the theory and concepts of the style). Later, turned back to Fatshan, the Ving Tsun of Yip Man looked and worked quite different to his senior classmates, so they call him a betrayer of their Sifu and challenged him for a fight (but never happened, as it is said).