Overview
Our Syllabus Licencing Service has been a popular service since it’s release in 2014. The service allows clubs to submit their own syllabus or curriculum for review and certification. This can help add authenticity and peer credibility to any deviations from style specific techniques your club might have introduced. You can learn more from here.
In terms of naming your syllabus, you can designate it’s name to be anything that is not already in existence in our qualifications and syllabus index. There is, however, one caveat to the ability to name your syllabus freely and this is when you submit a syllabus which shares it’s name with a style.
An example would be a syllabus you submit named ‘Freestyle Karate’.
With this example, we clearly can’t issue a syllabus licence in your name for a syllabus titled ‘Freestyle Karate’ because this undermines the documentation issued. We can’t pass ownership of a style to you, especially as the inherent reason for submitting a syllabus is the deviations or new additions you’ve added to the style you’ve learnt. This particular name would also block any other Freestyle Karate clubs from submitting their curriculums in the future.
If you’ve come to know your own developments to a style as the style itself, you can append or prefix the syllabus name with your club name or initials.
If you’re unsure what to go for in terms of names, please speak with us and we’ll be happy to assist with a gentle steer.
For example;
John has practiced Jujitsu for 20 years and in that time he has refined the way he teaches, and the techniques used. He wants to add credibility to his work and provide a route to grade students through to 1st Dan so he applies for the syllabus licencing service. Whilst he knows he is not licencing Jujitsu itself, as his syllabus is a ‘custom’ Jujitsu curriculum he names it ‘Jujitsu’ on the application. When referred by our vetting team, they would recommend prefixing or appending his club name (Satori Jujitsu Clapham) to the document in a shortened version. This would become ‘Satori Jujitsu’ for the purpose of the syllabus licence.