WC: Senior Syllabus

The Senior Syllabus continues to develop your understanding and abilities within the Wing Chun system, and completes the Student Syllabus. Again the syllabus is split into three main components (Chi Sau, Self Defence, Theory) with the fourth component (Form) being added for Grade 12. As before, the year is split into three rotations with all Senior students training the same material together, but expected to perform at a grade-appropriate level by the end of the rotation.
– Student Grades: 9-12
– T-shirt Colour: Brown

Rotation 1: Starts January, Grading: May
Rotation 2: Starts May, Grading: Monday 9th – Saturday 14th September
Rotation 3: Starts September, Grading: 9th-14th December

Senior Syllabus: You can find full details of the Senior syllabus on the Senior Syllabus Overview as well as a downloadable PDF version.

Grades 9-11

2. Chi Sau
The Chi Sau component continues from the Intermediate syllabus, looking to develop your attacking and defending abilities, and as before is grade specific. You can find all the details in the Senior Chi Sau course.

3. Self Defence
The Self Defence component incorporates everything you’ve learnt so far to help you deal with more high energy and complex self defence scenarios.
– Rotation 1: Locks, Controls & Takedowns. Rotation 2: Weapons Awareness. Rotation 3: Weapons Awareness

4. Theory
The Theory component is connected to the current Self Defence rotation, and focuses on deepening your understanding of the context, strategies, and other factors relating to it.
– Rotation 1: Locks, Controls & Takedowns. Rotation 2: Weapons Awareness. Rotation 3: Weapons Awareness.

Grade 12

1. Revision
Grade 12 is a Revision Grade, where you demonstrate the material from all the previous grades to a higher standard. This often takes several grading rotations to get through, and you should aim to attend as many Beginner, Intermediate and Senior Revision Grading sessions as you can.

2. Form
New for Grade 12 is the Form component, focusing on the second Wing Chun form: Cham Kiu. This form introduces new strategies and techniques, some of which were used in previous Self Defence components, but are developed more fully in the Senior grades. Although you will have trained it in the previous three grades, this is where you’re tested on it. You can find full details in the Cham Kiu course.

3. Pressure Test
As with the previous Revision Grades, Grade 12 also includes a Pressure Test which takes different aspects from the syllabus and combines them with pad work in an exercise aimed at putting you and your Wing Chun under pressure. For Grade 12 this is 6 minutes long, and is the final part of the Student Grade Syllabus. You can check out previous student’s Pressure Tests here.