Today Professor Keith R. Kernspecht (National Sports Academy and State University of Bulgaria) is one of the most highly graded WT-masters in the world, the WT-Chief Instructor for Europe and Coordinator for the Western World.

He has established the Leung Ting-System of Wing Tsun in all European countries on behalf of the IWTA in Hong Kong.
With a current total of more than 1,800 associated schools in Germany, Austria and Switzerland alone the EWTO the Western section of IWTA founded and led by the author, is the world’s largest professional martial arts association.
Since 1982 the association has published its own magazine, "Wing Tsun Welt" (Wing Tsun World).

"On Single Combat" is the 9th specialist book on the martial arts to be written or published by Keith R. Kernspecht.
It is probably the very first comprehensive treatise on the phenomenon of individual combat, including aspects such as strategy, tactics, psychology, physiology, law, history, and philosophy, and undertakes to show how the complex processes occurring in a combat situation dictate the reactions of a defender and therefore circumscribe his actions.
Only very few books concern themselves with the theory and concept behind a style, or with fighting skill per se.
Reversing the definition by Clausewitz which states that war is an extension of individual combat, the author attempts to view individual combat as an element of war and examine whether both are subject to common laws.

The author takes a critical look at the real combat value of the conventional martial arts and self-defense methods, and is not afraid to slaughter a few sacred cows in the process.

WU-SHU PUBLICATIONS KERNSPECHT
ISBN 3-927553-07-7