Grading

Grades and belts

Thirteen grades - five club student grades and eight federation grades - each with its own title and belt colour.

Club gradeFederation gradeLevelBelt
Student grades within the club
--beginner (chudzi)white
1-beginner (chudzi)white with red
2-student (chudzi)yellow
3-student (chudzi)green
4-student (chudzi)blue
5-student (chudzi)purple
Senior student grades - Bulgarian Wushu Federation
61upper-level student (jundzi)brown
72advanced student (jundzi)orange
83senior student (jandi)red
Instructor grades - Bulgarian Wushu Federation
91junior instructor (jiaolian)grey
102instructor (jiaoshi)black
Master grades - Bulgarian Wushu Federation
111master (sifu / shifu)black with gold
122honoured teacher, head of a school (lao shi)black with gold
133invincible great teacher (lu chan)black with gold + an honorific added to the name

The grades in the grading syllabus and in the fees are numbered by grading: the 1st grade grading is the first one a student takes after starting as a white-belt beginner.

Club instructor grade

Besides the federation grades, the club also awarded a club instructor grade. The conditions were at least the 3rd grade passed and command of all the forms up to the grade held. With the 9th and 10th grades, a student automatically received an instructor grade in the club.