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Advancing from Children's Program to Teen and Adult Program
In order to ease the transition from the children's program to the adult
program, all eligible children will advance once a year as a group.
Any child who has turned 14 by January 1st will move into the Adult
Classes starting the Monday after our Chinese New Year Dinner
Celebration (usually in February, but the date varies year to year in
accord with the lunar calendar).
Guidelines for the transition
Teens will continue to wear their colored sashes indicating their
current rank. All advancing teens are either in the Black Sash Club or
Leadership Club, but as students in the adult program they can wear any
black t-shirt, red t-shirt or the purple Leadership Club t-shirt to
class.
Teens will continue to work towards the Junior Black Sash, which takes
an average of five years to earn and roughly correlates to reaching the
adult Block D Level (brown chevron). After that, they will train to
reach Adult Black Sash, either as a Certified Instructor or Gao Shou
Level, which takes approximately ten years in total to reach.
Teens will train and test in the adult curriculum, testing every six
months with adults. However, they will follow the Children's Program
ranking system rather than the Adult ranking system. Note: If they are
under Purple Sash level they will move up two ranks every six months; if
Purple or above one rank every six months, in accord with the Children's
Ranking System.
When Black Sash Club members move to the adult program, they are no
longer in the Children's Black Sash Club - they are now automatically in
the Adult Disciple Program. However, when Leadership Club members move
to the adult program, they remain Leadership Club members through age
sixteen and they become members of the Adult Mastery Program. The
Mastery Program offers a choice of more classes and benefits than the
Disciple Program. If the child was in the Black Sash Club, he or she
can apply to upgrade to the Mastery Program.
The tuition for the adult programs is the same as the children's
programs: The Adult Disciple Program tuition equals the Black Sash Club
tuition, and the Adult Mastery Program tuition equals the Leadership
Club Tuition. To know which classes and what other benefits your child
is now eligible for, see the Adult Benefits
page and scroll down to either the Disciple or Mastery program.
We encourage teens to take as many adult styles and classes as they are
eligible for, depending on whether in the Disciple or Mastery program.
They are required to take a minimum of two Shaolin Kungfu classes per
week to stay on their promotion schedule.
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