Your Wing Chun journey can become part of someone else’s.
Explore what it means to teach with Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools. Start with your background, the people you would like to teach and a conversation about the right training pathway.
You can apply for children’s instructor training as a beginner, without an existing Wing Chun qualification. Bring your interest in teaching and helping young people learn.
Applying is the first step. Training, assessment and the organisation’s required safeguarding and suitability checks must be completed before any teaching role is confirmed.
Explore the children’s curriculum ↗Adult teaching requires the relevant Wing Chun qualification and completion of the appropriate Sifu pathway. Your grade, experience and readiness to teach need to be discussed with the organisation.
Tell us about your current training or previous experience. We can then discuss which learning and assessment requirements apply to your starting point.
Explore the adult curriculum ↗An enquiry or training application does not grant permission to teach. The organisation confirms the requirements and scope of any teaching role.
Traditionally in Wing Chun, having a student establishes the teacher–student relationship: you are their Sifu.
Within Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools, we have developed that relationship into a structured qualification journey suited to the way our schools operate today.
Our aim is to prepare teachers with the Wing Chun knowledge, teaching skills, education and professional standards to guide their students correctly.
Each Sifu Level applies to an adult or children’s teaching qualification. You can qualify to teach children, adults, or both, by completing the requirements for the relevant pathway and level.
Qualification in one pathway does not automatically qualify you in the other.
With the appropriate adult or children’s Sifu qualification, teachers can deliver the corresponding phase of that curriculum within a franchised school.
PHASE 1 · PRE-LAUNCH
The preparation needed before you begin teaching: build your foundation and learn to deliver Phase 1 of the relevant curriculum.
For the adult or children’s pathway in which you are qualified.
PHASE 2
Build your knowledge of the higher curriculum and continue developing the teaching skills needed to guide students through Phase 2.
The appropriate Level 2 qualification enables Phase 2 teaching in your adult or children’s pathway.
PHASE 3
Develop further curriculum knowledge and teaching skills to support students as they work through Phase 3.
The appropriate Level 3 qualification enables Phase 3 teaching in your adult or children’s pathway.
These are organisation teaching levels. Qualified teachers are authorised to teach on behalf of Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools, including seminars and gradings, within their certified adult or children’s pathway.
Progress into teaching on behalf of the organisation, supported by higher curriculum knowledge and teaching skills.
Authorised organisation activities include seminars and gradings within the scope of the qualification.
Continue the qualification journey through further development of curriculum knowledge and teaching skills.
Authorised to teach on behalf of the organisation, including seminars and gradings, within the scope of the qualification.
Every level is part of a qualified teaching journey. Your certification identifies the level and whether it applies to adults, children, or both.
Learning to teach means making the curriculum understandable, building relationships and continuing to develop your own knowledge.
Listen, take an interest and help students feel comfortable asking questions.
Show consistency, integrity and care as students continue their learning.
Learn to explain, demonstrate and respond to different learners.
Keep developing your understanding of Wing Chun and the curriculum.
Share your location, training background and whether you are interested in teaching children or adults.
Ask about the training, assessment, suitability checks, commitments and costs that apply to your enquiry.
Understand the requirements and what the organisation needs to confirm before you move forward.
Instructor training and becoming a franchisee have separate requirements. If you want to build and run your own school, explore our dedicated franchise website and discuss the business opportunity.
Explore school ownership ↗Yes. Beginners can apply for children’s instructor training. Discuss the training, assessment and checks required before a teaching role can be confirmed.
Adult teaching requires the relevant Wing Chun qualification and completion of the appropriate Sifu pathway. The organisation assesses your background and confirms the requirements and scope of any role.
Both pathways use Sifu Levels 1–5. You qualify for the relevant adult or children’s pathway and level, and can qualify in both by meeting the requirements for each.
With the appropriate qualification, you can teach the corresponding Phase 1, 2 or 3 curriculum within a franchised location, in your certified adult or children’s pathway.
These are organisation teaching levels, authorising teaching on behalf of the organisation, including seminars and gradings, within the scope of the qualification.
Instructor training and franchise ownership have separate requirements. Use the franchise website if your goal is to build and run a school.
Your town or postcode, your experience, who you would like to teach and any questions about the training pathway.
Tell us about your interest. Let’s begin the conversation.
Enquire about instructor training ↗Read our safeguarding information ↗Previous page reference: the Sifu Levels and teaching pathways above are our current guidance. Earlier fees, timelines and qualification descriptions below may be out of date. Please contact the organisation for current requirements.
Rapport Building Quantities
Instructors must have the ability to strike up and build rapport with potential and future students.
This is key to engaging your new students and starting that relationship for the future.
Relationships
Instructors must be able to build and maintain relationships with others, Your students can and should be with you for many years to come and it is important that you are able to manage and keep these relationships.
Communication & Social Skills
Instructors must be an effective communicator and have social skills that allow you to interact with others.
Communication is key to passing on your knowledge and helping others grow and develop
Product Knowledge
Instructors must be able to learn the product that they are giving to others.
Surprisingly this is the last trait of a good instructor, your knowledge of your product means nothing if you are not able to maintain the first 3 qualities.
A good Instructor should understand that their personal ability in the Art of Wing Chun has near enough nothing to do with teaching Students, to teach students you simply need to be able to pass on a fixed Curiculum for your student to work through.
With time and training your own Wing Chun ability will grow and due to your hours of training compared to your students should superceed there ability.
If you do not wish to Master the Art of Wing Chun then you teach the Fixed Curiculum and then allow an Organisatonal Instructor to teach through seminars and Private sessions to enhance and add value for your and your student base.
It is a misconception that you have to be a Martial arts Master of the Wing Chun System to be able to teach the art or at least the beginning of the art to others! An instructors journey has to start somewhere and it cant start at the end of your own training!
Being a fully developed, well trained and well rounded Instructor does (And do not have any doubt) take many many years, Any where up to 15 years if we have to put a timeline on it, however to pass on knowledge and to gain a base level of students who wish to learn from you does not take this long, in fact you can get started fairly quickly and there are only a few traits that you need to pocess at the start.
Detailed below is the breakdown of how Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools details the journey of the expert Wing Chun Martial Arts instructor.
The Sifu Title (Meaning Teacher) is an approximate journey of 15 years and is detailed below as Sifu Levels:
A Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools Student
A current or previous student of Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools wishing to develop there understanding of the Wing Chun System and moving in the direction of a new career or having a teaching path as part of their life.
A person over 18 looking to start a new Career
Any person over the age of 18 who is capable of learning the skills required (As detailed in these pages) is able to become part of the fastest growing Wing Chun Kung Fu Organisation in the UK
The Following Sifu Levels represent an instructor who is non organisational qualified and can only demonstrate that they have gained the knowledge and skill to pass the Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools student curiculum on to the student, this does not directly relate to any personal development or personal guidance that a Martial Arts Instructor might give, this additionally does not represent an Instructors personal ability at applying Wing Chun.
Each Sifu Level represents 3 years of teaching to that Phase of the curiculum and the instructor can either work through these each 3 years or run each phase of teaching alongside each other.
Sifu Level 1
This is the first stage of becoming a fully qualified instructor and allows the teacher to learn and pass knowledge of all curiculum based material for Phase 1 (The first 4 student programmes)
Sifu Level 2
Stage 2 of becoming a fully qualified instructor and allows the teacher to learn and pass knowledge of all curriculum based material for Phase 2 (The 4 Intermediate student programmes)
Sifu Level 3
Stage 3 of becoming a fully qualified instructor and allows the teacher to learn and pass knowledge of all curiculum based material for Phase 3 (The 4 Senior student programmes)
The Following Sifu Levels are the finising parts of your overall Sifu (Teacher Qualification, The Sifu Level 4 and Sifu Level 5 represent that you are qualified to teach on behalf of the Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools Organisation and able to teach the full curiculum of Wing Chun Kung Fu as well all aspects of Martial Arts and Personal Development that fall with in Wing Chun Kung Fu.
Sifu Level 4
Stage 4 being the Sifu Level 4 means that you are now learning to teach Master students wishing to Master the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu
Sifu Level 5
The Sifu Level 5 is the goal and represents a full 15 years of learning to become a fully qualified Wing Chun Instructor who has passed through the teaching of all student levels and for both Children and Adults
Any person over the age of 18 can apply from the Governing body and organisation to take purchase a Wing Chun Kung Fu Schools Franchise
A enhanced DBS check must be performed by the Governing body and returned as clear, Previous DBS checks from other Organsations cannot be used.
A Martial Arts Organisation is therefore formed by an indivdual who accepts responsibility to ensure that all policies and procedures are in place to allow indivduals (Instructors) wishing to teach to the general public and that they are checked and monitored in the best practise and ethical standards.
The term Franchise is therefore used (In this case Meaning The Organisation) to deliver an Organisations polices and procedures to the general public through there instructors.
The Term Instructor is used meaning an indivdual who wishes to be part of a specific organistion/Franchise and wishes to deliver the information from the organisation as this would be too much for an indivdual to do and maintain, this can be the specific Martial Arts curiculum, Personal Development information or Business systems to implement all material correctly and of course to ensure that the UK Government Guidelines are followed at all times.
