For a number of years instructors and students from numerous styles that incorporate weapons have found themselves at a loose end when it comes to live bladed weapon training. Whether it’s Filipino arts like Arnis, FMA or Escrima through to Ninjitsu or HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), ...
We’re exceptionally proud to confirm that our new Operations Office is now ready to re-open following a major office move and complete refurbishment. There is never a good time to move offices – both logistically and financially – but despite Coronavirus having a significant impact...
For those of you who follow us regularly on Instagram and Facebook, you will know we’re currently ‘knee-deep’ in a major office refurbishment and move. The BMABA was founded in 2012 as a community organisation and was initially run by a voluntary team without offices or staff. As t...
What a 24 hours for our community. From the announcement at 22:30 last night that England would see a near-immediate limit to groups more than six in total meeting to a potential glimmer of a possible exit to social distancing and a ban on grappling. It’s far from black and white and is yet to...
We proudly announced in January that GB Taekwondo – the official organisation responsible for developing Olympic talent in Taekwondo – is working in collaboration with BMABA to find talent from a more diverse background of martial arts. We are the only indepedent multi-style association ...
We are the first in the martial arts industry to set up many initiatives during Covid, including this free extension to cover. We know for many clubs the prospects of renewing membership and – crucially – insurance, is a difficult judgement call at the moment. Whilst it now seem...
2020 has proved to be a year of near-absolute carnage for the UK martial arts sector. Coronavirus has pushed many clubs to the brink of failure – if not complete collapse. Focus in the early months of the pandemic was about trying to get clubs teaching outdoors and, when country by country gui...
Over the past month we have all been set adrift in a sea of vague regulatory changes and disappointing delays for the return of indoor martial arts. As we approach the 25th July, the date on which indoor martial arts can return in England, we decided a bit more clarity would be helpful to clubs and ...
For those within the martial arts industry who did the responsible thing and sat tight following June’s crushing extension to the continued closure of indoor sport and gyms, we finally appear to have our date! What’s Happened? ENGLAND On 9th July at 17:12 Oliver Dowden, Secretary ...
The changes to Government guidance is coming at us all thick-and-fast. It was only last week we were told martial arts would not be returning along with gyms and fitness classes. There was then a temporary glimmer of hope, only to be extinguished very recently again. We now have a revised piece of g...