Organization and Growth
The official umbrella organization for WingTsun, the International WingTsun Association (IWTA), is headquartered in Hong Kong and led by Leung Ting. The IWTA has schools in over 60 countries, and has gained a large following in the western world. There are now over 2,000 WingTsun schools in Europe, most of them in Germany and its neighboring countries. With over 1,000,000 practitioners worldwide, the IWTA is currently one of the largest martial arts organizations in the world. This growth owes mainly to Leung Ting’s German headstudent, Keith R. Kernspecht. The EWTO (European WingTsun Organization) headquarters, where WingTsun is being taught full time over six hours a day, is situated in Langenzell, Germany. In Eastern-Europe Wing Tsun has also existed since 1985 (in current form). The headquarters are in Hungary.
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