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The origin of Wing Tyun

The Wing Tyun Kung-Fu system is a development of the traditional system of Kung-Fu typically spelt in English as 'Wing Chun'.

The Wing Chun fighting system was created around 250 years ago, by a Buddhist nun named Ng Mui. The Shaolin monastery, of which she was an elder, was destroyed by traitors whilst under siege, hence her new style was developed specifically to overcome the Shaolin Kung-Fu methods.

Her art was named after her first student, a young woman, Yim Wing Chun, whose name meant 'beautiful springtime.'

This art was then passed down through the generations in secret, until the 1940’s when the late Grand Master Yip Man started to develop and teach the system in Hong Kong, making Wing Chun accessible to the public.

Due to the system’s simple but very effective techniques, Wing Chun has continued to grow taking many branches, and now can be seen advertised under many different English spellings and lineage's.

Our Lineage

Many people learnt the art from Grand Master Yip Man, most famously Bruce Lee.

One of the last students of Yip Man was Great Grandmaster Leung Ting who founded the International Wing Tsun Association.

Sifu Mik Lane learnt the Wing Tsun system in Germany under the EWTO and pioneered the teaching in the UK of the Leung Ting 'Wing Tsun' system , but left the organisation in 2002 to form the Wing Tyun Kung-Fu Organisation (WTKO)

Sifu Mik continues his training and development of the Kung-Fu system with the Master Instructors of the 'World Martial Arts Alliance'; a group of Martial Arts organisations and Schools who mainly train in the WT or Wing Chun Kung-Fu systems, and in the weapons system of the European Escrima Concepts Organisation.

In 1997 Mike Gorton joined a class in Stafford and was one of the first students of Sifu Mik Lane. Mike took over the running of the Stafford club in 2000, and in 2005 began teaching Kung Fu professionally. Mike is now the Staffordshire Instructor for the WTKO teaching Wing Tyun Kung Fu; a development of the traditional Wing Chun system.

Now an authorised WTKO Academy Instructor, Mike holds the rank of 2nd level Technician grade, and in 2009 was acknowledged as a Sifu of Wing Tyun.