We are enjoying partnering with ArtMartial for all our hoodies and non-training gear, and have now created a new shop interface so it’s now easier to find what you’re looking for. If you need some new casual wear, now’s the time to check it out here.

Hill’s Road has started putting their gate across the college car-park (opposite the entrance to the Centre car park). Whilst our members are allowed to use the car park, we aren’t allowed to give the code out to everyone en masse so if you need the code drop us an email or ask at Hill’s Road Reception.

When we created FuTube back during the lockdown period we included a ‘Live Chat’ feature to enable us to fix any teething problems in real time. As time has moved on and FuTube is no-longer in the ‘being built’ stage we are discontinuing the Live Chat feature.

The best way to get in contact with us is by dropping us an email at email@cambridgekungfu.com, as this is monitored by several members of the team. If you prefer to speak to us in person you can call us on 01223 410555 and leave a message and we will ring you back as soon as someone is available, or you can chat to us after your class if there’s time/it’s appropriate.

We do keep an eye on our social media, however we will not see messages on here as quickly as we will see emails.

If in doubt, email us and we’ll get back to you asap.

This terms Grading dates for Little Dragons and Junior Warriors:

Monday 23rd June – Saturday 5th July inclusive

Please note the Tiny Tigers do not grade.

Your child should attend as normal during the Grading Week as grading takes place within their regular class. Grading is always optional, if your child hasn’t been attending class regularly, please ensure they feel under no pressure to grade. However, if they are keen to grade then FuTube has all the resources they need in order to do some extra practise and preparation at home. 

If this is your child’s first Grading their instructor will talk them through what will happen during the classes leading up to grading. Please bear in mind that if your child is a Dragon or Warrior and decides not to Grade they will get a certificate but they will not get a badge. If you will be away for your grading classes then please get in touch about organising an alternative class to grade in if you wish to grade.

The week commencing Monday 7th July will be Ceremony Week. Ceremony Week is a “watching week” where you are invited to come into your child’s regular class to watch them perform their Form, receive their certificate and play some Kung Fu games. We look forward to seeing you there and you are very welcome to bring and family or friends who may like to watch.

The week after Ceremony Week (the week commencing Monday 14th July) will be Games Week and the last week of term. In Games Week the children celebrate the hard work they have shown over the term by playing Kung Fu games.

We then go straight into our Summer Holiday Programme (see further details below).

We continue our classes through the Summer Holidays with our fun packed Summer Holiday programme of classes. During this time we run a reduced timetable, however your children are welcome to attend classes on any of the days that are running (for their age group), and they can come to as many classes during the week as they would like to (at no extra cost and without having to book in “catch-up”). 

We will have classes running on a Tuesday (4pm Tigers and 5pm Warriors), on a Thursday (4pm Dragons and 5pm Warriors) and we will have Tigers, Dragons and Warriors classes running on a Saturday (10am Junior Warriors, 11am Little Dragons, 12:30pm Tiny Tigers, 1:30pm Little Dragons and 2:30pm Junior Warriors). You are welcome to attend any, and as many, classes as you would like to for your age group. We will send a reminder email nearer the time as well.

At the start of the Summer Holidays (from Monday 21st July) children, who are old enough, will progress up to the next class. 

From Monday 21st July;

Tiny Tigers who are currently in School Year 1 will move up to Little Dragons
Little Dragons who are currently in School Year 3 will move up to Junior Warriors
Junior Warriors who are currently in School Year 6 will move up to our Youth Kung Fu Programme

Over the Summer Holidays (from Monday 21st July onwards) we will be running our Summer Holiday reduced timetable. During this time you can attend any class for your moving-up age group (see section above for the Summer Timetable). However we will need to take your preferences for your regular moving-up class for September onwards. On Wednesday 4th June we will be emailing everyone who is due to move up to the next programme to ask for your September class preference. If you would like to look at our timetable for September beforehand to think through which classes you might be interested in please visit our timetable page here.

Unfortunately, we can’t take preferences until that email has been sent to make it fair on everyone, although if you have any questions about the process, or the options available to your child, then please don’t hesitate to contact us via <link-“mailto:email@cambridgekungfu.com”>email</link> beforehand. If you have any questions about moving up, please let me know.

It is the Hill’s Road Sports and Tennis Centre policy that children under the age of 12 must not be left unattended at the Centre. Please make sure that you pick up and drop off your child at class if they are under this age.

Although we do our best to ensure that our classes aren’t ever cancelled at short notice, there may be extenuating circumstances where this could happen, ensuring you directly drop off your child ensures that they won’t be left unsupervised at the Centre if there is a last minute class cancellation. If you have any questions about this just get in touch.

Hill’s Road has started putting their gate across the college car-park (opposite the entrance to the Centre car park). Whilst our members are allowed to use the car park, we aren’t allowed to give the code out to everyone en masse so if you need the code drop us an email or ask at Hill’s Road Reception.

We hope that you enjoyed the Easter break! From Tuesday 22nd April we kick off the new term.

As well as a form component for each grade, this term our Beginner Youth Kung Fu students are working on Punches, the Intermediate students are practising Anti Grappling, and the Senior Students are working on Multiple Attackers. You can access online content which helps support your child’s progress in these programmes via FuTube. Just get in touch if you need any help navigating the site.

Once students reach age 13 they are invited to try out the Youth Escrima Concepts class for the opportunity to start learning our weapons programme as well. If your child is now 13 and interested in trying out the class please let us know. It takes place on Monday nights, 7pm-7.50pm at Hills Road, and you can find more information here.

We hope that you enjoyed the Easter break! From Monday 28th April we kick off the new term.

Grades 1 and 2 students will be working on Single-Stick Attack and Defence. Grades 5 and 6 students will be working on Disarms, and all other grades focussing on their specific syllabus which you can see here.

You can access online content which helps support your child’s progress in these programmes via FuTube. Just get in touch if you need any help navigating the site.

For those who haven’t met him, Sifu Benno is a Master of Wing Chun, and the teacher of both Sifu Ross & Sifu Col. He has been training a variety of martial arts his whole life, and now specialises in the Practical Wing Chun of Sifu Wan Kam Leung as well as Escrima Concepts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. If you want to experience a higher level of understanding and ability of Wing Chun, Sifu Benno is the person to come and train with!

This seminar is open to all Youth Kung Fu members who have passed Grade 8 (note there will also be adults training in the seminar). Sifu Benno will be focussing on Gau-Cha-Sau (the crossing arms from the beginning of Siu Nim Tao), and how it’s used in comparison to the same in the other forms (Cham Kiu and Biu Jee). Note: you don’t need to have done the forms to attend the seminar.

When: Sunday 11th May, 2pm-5pm
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £40, or £30 with UCT membership

Sign Up: Please just send us an email to reserve your place. We will take payment via your Direct Debit unless to let us know otherwise.

This term’s Youth Escrima grading will be taking place on Monday 14th July and Monday 21st July. 

This term’s Youth Kung Fu Grading will be taking place from Tuesday 1st July – Saturday 12th July inclusive.

Your child should attend as normal during the Grading Week as Grading takes place within their regular class. In Youth Kung Fu the week following Grading will be a Games Week.

Grading is always optional, if your child hasn’t been attending class regularly please ensure they feel under no pressure to grade. However, if they are keen to grade then FuTube has all the resources they need in order to do some extra practise and preparation at home. Students going for Revision Grades (Grades 4, 8 and 12) can attend as many grading sessions as they would like during this period. If you will be away for your grading classes then please get in touch about organising an alternative.

Our Youth classes continue with the regular timetable through the Summer Holidays, although we don’t have classes on Bank Holidays.

We continue classes through the May half-term holiday, however please note we do not run classes on Bank Holidays and so there won’t be any classes on the following dates:

Monday 21st April
Monday 5th May
Monday 26th May

Youth Escrima students are welcome to attend Youth Kung Fu classes to make up for these missed sessions. If you would like to do that just let us know.

It is the Hill’s Road Sports and Tennis Centre policy that children under the age of 12 must not be left unattended at the Centre. Please make sure that you pick up and drop off your child at class if they are under this age.

Hill’s Road has started putting their gate across the college car-park (opposite the entrance to the Centre car park). Whilst our members are allowed to use the car park, we aren’t allowed to give the code out to everyone en masse so if you need the code drop us an email or ask at Hill’s Road Reception.

With our new price structure including a better deal for training more than once a week, we wanted to draw your attention to the Tuesday night (and Thursday afternoon) Escrima Concepts classes. Although a different art to Wing Chun, Escrima is a great complimentary art for anyone wanting to do extra training to include using and defending against weapons. We have quite a few members already training in both arts (ask me in class if you’d like to chat to someone who already does both) and the different types of training can be really beneficial when you get to the higher grades.

Training in two or more adult classes per week, in Wing Chun and/or Escrima, now costs only £59 a month, and you get 2 weeks free to give it a go if you decide to try out the class.

You can find our timetable here.

Benefits of increasing your training frequency include faster skill development, improved muscle memory, and greater confidence in applying techniques under pressure. More training also enhances fitness, coordination, and adaptability while deepening your understanding of both Wing Chun and Escrima. Plus, training with a wider range of partners helps you refine your responses and build stronger connections with other members.

We currently ask you to let us know when you’re doing a catch up class on a different day to your normal class. Starting in June, we are trialling a new system whereby you do not need to let us know; you can just turn up. We’re hoping this makes the process of catching up on missed classes easier for everyone.

This will apply to all our adults classes. Kids and Youth will keep the old system of registering your catch up with us due to a different numbers cap for kids and under 18s.

Bart Cham Dao Workshop with Sifu Benno

Sifu Benno will be teaching a Bart Cham Dao (Wing Chun knives) workshop, open to those working on Biu Jee Grade 3 or above. If you do not have your own knives we might have a spare pair you can borrow for the day, however I suggest also getting a basic pair of these so you can continue to practice at home afterwards. Before buying a metal pair for yourself, I suggest attending the seminar and trying out everyone else’s for feel and weight.

If you have any questions about this, please speak to Col or Ross in class.

When: Saturday 10th May, 10am-12pm
Venue: The Studio, Hills Road Sports and Tennis Centre
Price: £50
Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place

Advanced/PWC Grading with Sifu Benno

Sifu Benno will be here to grade all those training the Advanced/PWC syllabus. If you do not feel ready to grade you are welcome to attend and train without the pressure of grading.

When: Saturday 10th May, 2pm-5pm
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £47
Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place.

SNT Instructor Training

Open to all Advanced members who have completed the SNT Grades, this session with Sifu Benno will be training the material needed for the SNT Instructor Certification. If you’re unsure if you should attend please chat to me or Ross.

When: Sunday 11th May, 10am-12pm
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £40, or £30 with UCT membership
Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place.

Sifu Benno Seminar in Cambridge

For those who haven’t met him, Sifu Benno is a Master of Wing Chun, and the teacher of both Sifu Ross & Sifu Col. He has been training a variety of martial arts his whole life, and now specialises in the Practical Wing Chun of Sifu Wan Kam Leung as well as Escrima Concepts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. If you want to experience a higher level of understanding and ability of Wing Chun, Sifu Benno is the person to come and train with!

Open to all CKF members, this seminar will be useful for all levels of Wing Chun training (including Beginners). Sifu Benno will be focussing on Gau-Cha-Sau (the crossing arms from the beginning of Siu Nim Tao), and how it’s used in comparison to the same in the other forms (Cham Kiu and Biu Jee). Note: you don’t need to have done the forms to attend the seminar.

When: Sunday 11th May, 2pm-5pm
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £40, or £30 with UCT membership
Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place.

Wing Chun Revision Gradings are starting on Monday 30th June – Saturday 12th July. You can attend as many sessions within your grading dates as you want in order to give you the best possible chance at passing your grade.

Gradings will take place during your normal lessons. If you are not grading this time around you will be able to train, as normal, during the class.

Please Sign Up Here.

The price of Grading is as follows…
Normal Grades (1-3, 5-7, 9-11) – £25
Revision Grades (4, 8, and 12) – £40 (this is a one off payment for the grade, not per grading session, and will be paid after your first grading session)
Once you have graded this will be added to your monthly payment.

If you are unsure what you need to know to grade, check out the details on FuTube:
Click here for Beginner, Intermediate, Senior.

If you are unsure if you are ready to grade, or have any questions, please ask us in class, or drop us an email.

Wing Chun Gradings are starting on Monday 7th July – see the details below for grade specific dates. You can attend as many sessions within your grading dates as you want in order to give you the best possible chance at passing your grade.

Beginner Grades: Monday 7th – Saturday 12th July
Intermediate Grades: Monday 7th – Saturday 12th July
Senior Grades 9-12: Monday 7th – Saturday 12th July
Revision Grades 4, 8, and 12: All grading sessions from Monday 30th June to Saturday 12th July, with Ross. 

Gradings will take place during your normal lessons. If you are not grading this time around you will be able to train, as normal, during the class.

Please Sign Up Here.

The price of Grading is as follows…
Normal Grades (1-3, 5-7, 9-11) – £25
Revision Grades (4, 8, and 12) – £40 (this is a one off payment for the grade, not per grading session, and will be paid after your first grading session)
Once you have graded this will be added to your monthly payment.

If you are unsure what you need to know to grade, check out the details on FuTube:
Click here for Beginner, Intermediate and Senior.

If you are unsure if you are ready to grade, or have any questions, please ask us in class, or drop us an email.

After the success of last year’s course, Col will once again be running a Wing Chun Intensive Training Course in July: 15 hours of training, over 3 days, focussing on applications from all 3 unarmed Wing Chun forms:
Siu Nim Tao: Little Idea Form, Cham Kiu: Sinking the Bridge, Biu Jee: Darting/Thrusting Fingers.

The course is open to all students; you do not need to know the forms, as our focus will be on the applications rather than the form itself. The aim is for you to gain an understanding of the different options given by the movements and strategies of each form, and see how you can fit them into your current training. You will also get a limited edition ITC performance t-shirt.

Friday 25th July: 11am-1.30pm, 2.30pm-5pm
Saturday 26th July: 1.30pm-4pm, 4.30pm-7pm
Sunday 27th July: 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-4pm

Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £160
Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place.

• • • Cambridge:
      • Sifu Benno in Cambridge (Grading 27th September, Seminar 28th September)

      Non-Cambridge highlights:

      • Amsterdam Summer Camp with Sifu Benno & Sifu Martin (16th-20th July). Info here.
      • Winchester Seminar and Grading with Sifu Benno (6th-7th September).
      • Malaga Training Camp with Sifu Benno (21st-25th October). Info here.

Beginners Grading (SG1-4)
December 1st-6th

Intermediate Grading (SG5-8)
December 1st-6th

Senior Grading (SG9-12)
December 8th-13th

Revision Grading (SG4, SG8 and SG12)
December 1st-13th

We currently ask you to let us know when you’re doing a catch up class on a different day to your normal class. Starting in June, we are trialling a new system whereby you do not need to let us know; you can just turn up. We’re hoping this makes the process of catching up on missed classes easier for everyone.

This will apply to all our adults classes. Kids and Youth will keep the old system of registering your catch up with us due to a different numbers cap for kids and under 18s.

Sifu Benno is a Master of Wing Chun, and the teacher of both Sifu Ross and Col. He has been training a variety of martial arts his whole life, and now specialises in the Wing Chun, as well as Escrima Concepts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. If you’re interested in getting a different perspective on your unarmed martial arts, Sifu Benno is the person to come and train with! No Wing Chun experience is needed.

When: Sunday 11th May, 2pm-5pm
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £40
Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place.

New Tuesday night location from June 3rd

In June, the Tuesday night Escrima classes will be moving to Hills Road Sports and Tennis Centre, and will have a new time schedule:

Beginner & Intermediate (Grades 1-6) 
7pm-8.30pm: This class is the same as the current class, with a slightly later start time.

Senior & Advanced (Grades 7+)
7pm-9.30pm: You will all have heard many times that the foundations of the higher grades are seeded within the lower grades, so we’d like to invite all higher grade students to attend from 7pm to revise, consolidate, and improve their skills with this material. At 8.30pm we will then focus solely on the Senior and Advanced syllabus.

The new venue has more training space than our current venue (extra width, alas not extra height), and lots of onsite car parking (compared to Mill Road which now has none). It is generally easier to access for anyone with a car since the Mill Road bridge closed earlier this year.

The classes will stay at Mill Road for May, with the first class at Hills Road being Tuesday 3rd June. If you have any questions about this move please let Col know.

We will once again be running our Intensive Training Course in Cambridge this year: 15 hours of training over 3 days, with spaces limited to 10 attendees. After discussing it with several of you in class, the topic we’ve chosen is ‘Strategy, Armed and Unarmed’. We will be looking at having a plan, setting traps, and trying to manipulate your opponent into doing what you want.

You will also get a limited edition ITC t-shirt, so please let us know what size you would like when you sign up.

Friday 1st August: 11am-1.30pm, 2.30pm-5pm
Saturday 2nd August: 1.30pm-4pm, 4.30pm-7pm
Sunday 3rd August: 10am-12.30pm, 1.30pm-4pm

Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £160
Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place.

Steve and Wayne will be back in Cambridge on Friday 14th – Sunday 16th November

– Friday night will be a Stand Up Grappling workshop. After the success of November’s workshop, Steve has agreed to do two more for us this year. The focus will be on developing and improving your understanding of controlling an opponent without going to the floor. Open to all CKF members.

Friday 14th November, 7pm-9pm
Topic: Stand Up Grappling
Venue: Viewing Gallery, Hills Road Sports and Tenns Centre
Price: £30

– Saturday will be for those training towards Grade 7 or above. These grades are likely to take the whole session working on your grading material.

Saturday 15th November, 1.30pm-6pm
Topic: Grades: 7-9, plus TG
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £50 plus £25 if grading 7-9

– Saturday evening we will be going for a meal at Nines Global Buffet straight after training (7pm). Everyone is welcome to join us, you do not need to have attended the training session.

– Sunday will begin with grading for Grades 1-6, with those doing assistant/instructor grades being observed teaching the lower grades (so please bring your own syllabus copy with you). Once grading is finished we will spend the rest of the session on non-syllabus training.

Sunday 16th November, 10.30am-3pm
Topic: Open seminar plus grading for Grades 1-6
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £50 plus £25 if grading.

– Sunday afternoon there will be an Instructor Training session, open to all members who have passed Grade 6. Steve and Wayne will address any important points from the weekend, answer your syllabus/teaching questions, and work on how to teach some parts of the syllabus.

Sunday 16th November, 3.30pm-5.30pm
Topic: Instructor Training (for Grade 6+)
Venue: 28th Cambridge Scout Hut
Price: £30 plus £50 if completing an Assistant Instructor level. 

Sign Up: Please use this form to reserve your place for any/all events this weekend.

The full EC International calendar can be downloaded from here.

• EC Norwich Seminar (10th May)
• Urban Escrima Seminar (11th May)
• Wimbledon Seminars (7th-8th June)
• FMA Festival (5th-6th July), More details here
• Hamburg Summer Camp (20th-24th August)
• EC Norwich Seminar (20th September)
• Urban Escrima Seminar (21st September)
• Clacton Intensive Course, TG Syllabus & Grading (4th-7th October)

The full EC International calendar can be downloaded from here.