About Us

City WingTsun is a martial arts school that offers the finest real-world kung fu instruction available in New York City. Simply put, WingTsun Kung Fu is a vehicle for you to realize your goals, be it self-defense, fitness or just a boost of confidence to get you through your day. Our general classes offer a well-rounded curriculum to help you achieve your goals. For you hard-core types with specific goals such as instructor training or fighter classes, we offer intensive classes for you guys as well.

City WingTsun is run by Sifu Alex Richter and his enthusiastic staff of WingTsun fanatics and devotees. The main HQ of City WingTsun is located in Midtown Manhattan with satellite class locations in East Village, Brooklyn, Queens, and more in planning.

Our Mission

City WingTsun is a martial arts school dedicated to excellence.    We are dedicated to developing confidence, higher fitness, awareness and peace of mind for our students.  We do this while maintaining the traditions of Chinese martial arts – respect, discipline and courtesy.  But at the same time we have a very modern approach in terms of teaching methods, training protocols and class structure.  Our goal is to show the beauty of real Chinese martial arts without all the mysticism that has plagued and hindered Chinese martial arts from moving forward.

About Sifu Alex Richter

 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.

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.

Alex prides himself on producing quality students by teaching WingTsun with strict standards just as he has learned it. A perpetual student, Alex had been set on his WingTsun path through private instruction with many renowned martial artists such as Great Grandmaster Leung Ting and Sifu Carson Lau both in Hong Kong and stateside throughout the decade.

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 by the first “Sifu” of Cuban decent in the International WingTsun Association.

About Our Instructor Team