HK Fencing Master · Badge ExamBadge Exam
Fourteen badges from Mini Star to Elite Yellow. Clear skills, fair exams, visible progress — everything your family needs to know about how your child moves up.
Every badge has two parts: the colour shows your child's training phase, and the number shows their level inside that phase. As skills grow, the badge colour rises from Blue to Pink, Green and finally Yellow — a dedicated student usually reaches the Yellow Badge in about 4–5 years.
Our development curriculum — climbing from Discovery 尋星劍 to Elite 奧星劍.
When a student passes, they receive a promotion certificate and a new badge, worn on the sleeve of the non-weapon arm — visible proof of every step climbed.
Promotion depends on skill, not time served. Each student moves up when they are ready — fast finishers are never held back, and steady learners are never rushed.
Badges make progress visible. Each time a fencer learns the techniques for a level and passes the exam, they receive a badge that shows their rise in level — motivating the next step.
The level system builds the skills, discipline and self-control needed to use fencing techniques properly — on the piste and beyond it.
Each level brings more achievement and more responsibility. Step by step, senior students become role models and buddy coaches for younger fencers, earning the recognition that comes with being a skilled fencer.
Before each exam, coaches check four things: skills (practical exam), knowledge (theory test), behaviour (rated by the class coach across the term) and the level's training-hours and competition requirements. Exams are run by HKFM coaches, scored live, and signed. Results are never announced during the exam.
Feedback is given within 7 days — calmly, and always with reasons.
Safety note: a missed safety item or any unsafe act means “Not yet”, whatever the other scores.
School CCA sessions at your child's school: FEN 1 → FEN 2 → FEN 3 (black badges). Fun, safe foundations with school equipment. After FEN 3, students are warmly suggested to step up to Level 1 (Blue Badge) with metal weapons.
At our centre, with full gear and our complete badge pathway — the athlete route from Mini Star to Elite Yellow, with Master Star competitions every level.
Three Mini Stars plus eight Levels — fourteen badges in all. Tap a stage, then tap any level to open its full checklist. Levels 2+ and 4+ are compulsory steps on the ladder; only Level 6+ (refereeing & leading) is an optional bonus.
Our Champion Path — the route from Foundation to Elite, with an intensive core program at every stage.
Discovery & Development (Levels 1–4+): 2 × 1.5 hrs per week · Mastery & Elite (Levels 5–8): 3 × 1.5 hrs per week — matching our Champion Path. Alongside these, each stage offers an optional intensive core program — IGNITE (Discovery), BLOOM (Development), GLOW (Mastery), SPARKLE (Elite): 10 sessions × 3 hrs.
The required accumulated training hours for each level — and when your child can take each exam — are in this chart. Download and print it to track progress at home.
The complete level-by-level technical, knowledge, behaviour and competition requirements — ideal for parents and students preparing for an exam.
A printable overview of the route from Foundation to Elite, with intensive core programmes at every stage.
As your child progresses, the class structure evolves. Early levels build broad foundations; later levels add intensive core programmes, competition preparation and sport-specific conditioning.
2 × 1.5 hrs per week. Basic footwork, blade work and rules. Fun, safe introduction with school equipment.
2 × 1.5 hrs per week. Technical refinement, tactical awareness and first competition exposure.
3 × 1.5 hrs per week. Advanced tactics, bout analysis and regional competition goals.
3 × 1.5 hrs per week. Elite training, national-level competition and athletic development.
10 × 3 hrs intensive core programme. Holiday camps and deep-dive skill blocks for rapid advancement.
10 × 3 hrs elite intensive. Olympic-pathway conditioning, mental skills and peak performance planning.
Mini Star is for ages 3–5 (plastic swords). Level 1 onwards is for age 6+ (metal weapon). The table below shows approximate equivalents mapped by HK Fencing Master, based on public syllabi: British Fencing foil Grades 1–6, the China Fencing Association (CFA) 2026 children's star system, and the HKFA school badge scheme.
| HKFM level | British Fencing (foil) | CFA stars (2026) | HKFA school badges |
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Approximate equivalents mapped by HK Fencing Master (target alignment, Oct 2026). This is an HKFM mapping, not endorsed by British Fencing, the China Fencing Association or HKFA. "Not offered" means that body has no test at that level.
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