Hi, I am Leo Vang from China. Here is my story about my Kung Fu journey. Because of my characteristics and bad personality, when I was a teenager, I was always bullied by classmates.

    Therefore, I started training some other fake Wing Chun lineages in 2013, yeah, it was fake, since I was born in a Northern city, where there are rarely any Wing Chun style inheritors. After training for some time, I realized that the instructors’ backgrounds were actually from other styles, such as XingYi/Hsing I, SanDa, wrestling, and kickboxing. I quit training because I was stubbornly addicted to Wing Chun (at that time, Wing Chun’s name had become popular due to the Ip Man Movie franchise, so some enthusiasts were seeking to learn, in case some were starting to pretend to be Wing Chun).

    Then I went to study abroad in 2014, and in my leisure time, I started to follow some other lineages of Wing Chun. This time was actually real, I can tell that now, but I was not so satisfied with the learning experience anyway, so the exploration of a decent instructor/Master/ Sifu continued. 

In the time of 2015, I was already an experienced amateur, yes, it means, among amateurs, I am sort of a professional, but I don’t feel right anyway, still a lot of confusion in my mind.

    In 2017, I started to follow another fake lineage, but somehow I was satisfied with the experience there. To be honest, although it wasn’t the Wing Chun I was craving all the time, I felt fulfilled, I improved a lot, as an amateur, I was much more professional than others.

    By the time of 2018, 5 years as a professional amateur, I was about to give up the exploration, because I felt I was qualified enough already, I thought I knew a lot about Wing Chun, so I started to explore some other styles such as Baji, Hsing I, Pigua, and accepted boxing, karate, kickboxing as part of my training plan, along this journey, I had also met some practioners from other traditional kung Fu styles, some of them are so powerful, they even made me to doubt about is Wing Chun that powerful as I think, so I kept the question and continue training with them until 2021.

   In 2021, as an 8-year-old amateur, first-time made my right choice, I started to follow the WSL Ving Tsun system under Master Li Hang Cheong, when the first time I met my instructor, who was also my senior Kung Fu brother, I felt so proud that I had learned a lot of different things and combined them with Wing Chun, until I got completely defeated by him.

   A shocking fact that I have to live with, everything before was not so right. I have to sort of reject almost all of my past experience, you know how that feels? Luckily, with about 1 year long professional training, my past still helped to a certain extent, but I have to accept and replace almost all the knowledge about Wing Chun that I have learned so far. I have experience with at least 3-5 different lineages/systems of Wing Chun, none of which makes me feel so convincing and reliable, so I officially stopped exploring and decided to stick with the Wong Shun Leung Ving Tsun science of combat system forever.

   Additionally, in 2023, I started to explore other styles again, which is the Baji system. This time, it is completely different from before, as Ving Tsun has opened my mind. I still stick to the Ving Tsun system, but I started to understand others from a comprehensive perspective. So this time is not simply combining A with B; it is not stacking another thing on the existing thing. I started to find out the similarity and their unique features, which helps me a lot to understand Ving Tsun even better.

  Therefore, you can see how bad luck I had, but that doesn’t matter at all for now. Thanks to the journey, my characteristics and personality also changed a lot; this is not only about Kung Fu, but it’s also about self-redemption.