The cost of joining as an instructor depends on the type of membership you want and the features you’d like included. You can join us for free or you can join as a premium member from as little as £15 per year. Students are all charged a set rate regardless of their grade, age or position. This starts from £4 per student, per year and again is dependent upon what you need.

£5 Per student, per year includes full insurance, member to member cover, student licensing, student membership, digital certification, grade recognition, access to our student liaison service and more. The additional plans are useful if you’d like extras like printed certification, license grading books or patches etc. All of these things can be purchased additionally from our store if you’d rather do this separately.

You can register additional instructors at any point if you would like to get your senior graded instructors into the instruction route too – again, this is a discounted premium or free rate.

We offer both free & premium membership. If you choose annual membership this covers you as a chief instructor / lead instructor and you’re not required to pay any additional fees to register your club – your club is automatically registered as part of your BMABA affiliation.

We’re a politics free organisation and as such don’t dictate any ruling on how and when you get grade your students – provided the grading is honest, fair & professional. We will recognise any grade issued by you in club provided the gradee is only graded up to one grade below your current grade.

For example, if you hold a 3rd Dan we would recognise you grading students up to 2nd Dan etc.

You’re free to hold any gradings at any point without notifying us or paying us a penny.

You don’t pay a penny to us when grading any of your students. If your students are licensed with us (with the £4 per student, per year student insurance option mentioned above) we recognise their new grade free of charge. If you don’t have students insured with us you may still grade them and we will recognise their grade on request provided it was issued in accordance with our grading guidelines (with regards to professional, fair gradings).

Yes – you can stay completely independent. We’re a professional organisation that supports our clubs and members. We’re politics free & community run so we don’t get involved in the day to day running of your club, that’s entirely for you and your members to decide.

This depends on what you’re after. Currently, license books are around £2.40 per book and certificates are around £2 per print – but this depends on what you need and any extras you’d like. All pricing is clear and we have a secure online store so you can shop around and save products for later at your leisure.

Free members are permitted to use the BMABA affiliation on websites & literature etc freely. We do also have professionally designed logos and graphics for our paying premiums members too. These can be used on websites, merchandise & prints etc for as long as your membership remains valid

This is a difficult question and does depend on what you need. Our membership section allows you to choose from a few pre-designed popular membership packages or gives you the option to build your own membership.

Please take a look at the sign up section and choose the best option for your club’s needs. If you’re not sure and would like to discuss it with us you can always get in touch.

The BMABA is a professional body for instructors, coaches and senseis who love what they do & take their teaching seriously.

Rather than a style specific association that determines the syllabuses, teaching criteria and other style based content we leave that up to you (or any other style specific association you’re with) and instead focus on the professional side of things with you – the instructor.

Instructors, senseis and coaches from all walks of life call the BMABA their association. We have hundreds of members from different backgrounds, styles, ages, genders, communities, ages and so on – all are welcomed as equals and are only ever assessed on their professional competency to instruct martial arts, boxing and combat.

We don’t actually sell any insurance ourselves – we simply arrange policies on your behalf. This makes life easier for everyone involved.

If you take out instructor insurance we’ll arrange that with Towergate Insurance PLC for you. We can provide student cover & events cover directly using our group cover policy.

For more information on our insurance options please see the insurance section.

No, we don’t provide any classes directly and instead license & regulate registered instructors.

If you’d like to  train with a BMABA licensed instructor please take a look at our club finder, under the ‘our association’ section on the main menu.