There is no uniform umbrella organization in Europe under which Wing Chun practitioners are grouped, but rather numerous, sometimes competing and divided associations, schools and individual teachers.
Organizational structure in modern Europe
This ceremony underlines the deep personal bond that has developed between master and student through the long training. Suitable selected long-term students are still accepted into the inner circle of the Wing Chun family by the Sifu in the traditional way through a master-student tea ceremony. Lo Man-kam, a nephew of Yip Man, still teaches his students in his home in Taipei. However, in some schools the family system was still maintained. Since then, Wing Chun lessons have taken on a more modern, academic and commercial character. The first public martial arts schools were established in Hong Kong. The lessons often took place against payment in the master's house, a personal bond between the master or his family and the student (apprentice), with certain mutual obligations, was the rule. The master, who had personal responsibility for the entire training of the student (apprentice), was addressed as Sifu (master). In the past in ancient China, Wing Chun, like all other martial arts or craft guilds, was traditionally passed on in a familiar character, from master to student. Leung Ting, a student of Yip Man, invited his master and some well-known representatives of the martial arts scene of the time to the college and conducted the exhibition fights in front of the specialist audience. The first public demonstration of the Wing Chun fighting system according to Yip Man took place in Hong Kong in an official exhibition fight in the winter of 1969 at what was then the Baptist College - now the Hong Kong Baptist University. The Ving Tsun Athletic Association was founded in 1967 by Yip Man and seven of his senior students at the time. The Jee Shim lineage of Wing Chun has pronounced enough deviations to the curriculum to be considered an separate/sister martial arts style, Weng Chun.
The other lineages contain either separate techniques, instructions, forms and weapon uses. The contemporary Wing Chun with its characteristic six forms and the “Chi-Sao” / “Poon-Sao” can be traced back to the studies of the teachers of Ip Man and Yuen Kay-shan. In the West, Wing Chun's history has become a mix of fact and fiction due to the impacts of early secrecy and modern marketing.
Regardless of the origins enspoused by perspective Wing Chun branches and lineages, there is much third-party controversy and speculative theorizing regarding true origins of Wing Chun. Other, smaller branches derive from these main eight lineages. Softness (via relaxation) and performance of techniques in a relaxed manner is fundamental to Wing Chun. Wing Chun Kuen ( Chinese: 咏春拳), commonly known as Wing Chun ( Chinese: 詠春), or Ving Tsun, is a concept-based traditional Southern Chinese Kung fu ( wushu) style and a form of self-defense, that requires quick arm movements and strong legs to defeat opponents. Jeet Kune Do, Arnett Sport Kung Fu, German Jujutsu Unknown there are eight distinct lineages with different stories regarding its conception Self-defense, striking, grappling, trapping Ip Man and Bruce Lee practising "双黐手", meaning "double sticky hands".