Sifu Alex Richter

Teaches at City Wing Tsun

Sifu Alex Richter is the chief instructor and president of City WingTsun Kung Fu. Within a few short years, Sifu Alex has built City WingTsun from a small class in a Manhattan dance studio to a two-floor WingTsun training center. He has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, the Discovery Channel, Kungfu/Taichi Magazine and PBS among others. Currently, he is one of the most successful instructors in the North Amercian Section of the International Wing Tsun Association. Sifu Alex heads the Midtown branch with additional class locations throughout the greater NYC area. Sifu Alex Richter has been training in the martial arts since the age of eight. Alex received most of his early WingTsun training at Langenzell Castle, the former headquarters for the European WingTsun Organization (EWTO). It was there that he trained WingTsun full time, six hours a day, five days a week. While in Europe he studied under the top masters of the EWTO from that time period in addition to training with his own Si-fu, Grandmaster Keith R. Kernspecht. Alex’s previous martial art experience includes seven years of Taekwondo (black belt), as well as Chinese wushu, grappling and Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do. He began training in “non-classical gung-fu” while living in a suburb of Seattle at the age of 15. This set him on a path that would eventually lead him to the Leung Ting system of WingTsun. Although born in Los Angeles, Sifu Alex is a die-hard east coaster at heart. He grew up in New Jersey and has lived all over the USA and in Europe. He was born to German and Cuban immigrants and is proud to be the first “Sifu” of Cuban decent in the International WingTsun Association.