Jack Ling

If it feels strong,It's wrong.

- Wayne Belonoha

JACK TAK FOK LING is an early student of the late Leung Sheung (æ¢ç›¸), the first student of Ip Man in Hong Kong. He started his daily training with Leung when he was twelve. Too young to absorb many ideas taught during the afternoon classes, he decided to study privately with his Sifu on Saturdays also.

On Saturdays, Leung Sheung reviewed each hand with Jack and would teach nothing new to him until that hand was demonstrated properly in the Chi Sau format. At times, it took Jack several weeks to demonstrate a hand correctly. Fortunately, Leung Sheung used several effective drills to help him develop the many hands in the three empty-hand forms and the Muk Yan Jong.

After graduating from the Diocesan Boys School, Jack was prepared to leave Hong Kong to pursue a college education in the United States. Realising that, Leung Sheung endeavoured to teach Jack the basics of the two weapon forms during the last seven months of his training. The daily training was intense.

After Jack started his career as a professor and university administrator, he only taught Wing Chun to a few individuals, who were already accomplished practitioners in Wing Chun of another lineage or in some other martial arts disciplines. He retired in 2015.

The Leung Sheung lineage seems to put heavy emphasis on stance development. Shouldn’t stance development be a standard part of Wing Chun training?

Developing a good stance takes work, and only certain groups of people want to learn that as part of traditional Wing Chun, so it’s standard for students not to have a root. Finding a