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Simple Martial Arts Grade & Attendance Tracking

Clever, easy to use grade progression and attendance tracking custom-built for martial arts clubs, by martial artists. Packed full of simple, intuitive functionality.

Quickly & Easily Mark Attendance By Your Preferred Default

You’re free to set whether or not a student should be assumed to be present or absent by default, so you only ever have to mark the odd one out as here or away, rather than having to mark individual attendance for every class all the time.

Customisable and Easy To Use

Automatic Grade Progression

Our Club Manager tracks progression towards the next grade based on your pre-defined attendance criteria. This can be increased or decreased as needed, and never automatically promotes a student to the next grade.

Easily Identify Progress

With a stunning, visual grade progression accordion, it's easier than ever to see student progression across an entire class to see who's ready to grade and who needs more support.

Easy Attendance Tracking

You can choose between automatically assuming someone's present (and only marking absences) or visa-versa, minimising admin time and making it easy to see who's in your class on the night.

Grading Management, Made Easy

Gradings carry enough stress and administration as it is. Club Manager By BMABA won’t add to it. Easily promote students, update permanent notes and fine-tune grading readiness from just one simple screen, with your entire syllabus always visible.

Flexible For Any Style

We represent upward of 100 disciplines and styles, and we've built ClubManager by BMABA to fit each and every one of them.

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Traditional Arts

It's simple and easy to setup Club Manager to follow a standard Kyu grading process, and this can also be extended to include Dan Grades.

03

Instructor Training

Our software can easily be adapted for instructor training. Set a special membership and class for instructors, and pre-defined their eligibility for instructorship.

02

Equivalencies

Perhaps you practice Muay Thai or MMA and want to track progress without running traditional belts. Easy. Set levels, markers or Krus, and track progress effortlessly.

04

No Grades

Everything in our system is optional, so if you just assign a straight forward 'STUDENT' level and never work with any progressions, that's okay too.

Who's Turning Up?

Lesson planning is hard enough, let alone if you don’t have an idea on who’s likely to attend.

 

Easily see who’s booked onto classes in realtime, and define the number of available spaces – as well as whether or not its adult only, child only, or mixed – before you start planning lessons.

Customisable Grades

Perfect for multi-style or mixed aged clubs.

Club Manager by BMABA puts you firmly in control of grade structure. You can easily set whatever progression path you like – Kyu Grades, Colour Belts, Levels – the possibilities are endless. Easy to setup, easy to edit and just as easy to manage.

Ready To Grade?

Club Manager by BMABA tells you from a simple, easy to see dashboard widget whenever someone is eligible to grade, based up on the pre-set number of lessons (you decide upon), making it easy to ensure students and your club are ready for the next grading.

Attendance, With Admin In Mind

We want to help you reduce on the admin. That’s why our stunning attendance tracking feature is simple and light-weight. Select to either presume a student is automatically present, and only mark absences or switch it, and mark only those attending. Eitherway, Club Manager by BMABA works to make attendance tracking – linked to grade progression – easy.

It's The Little Details

From visual ques to show whether a student is a child or adult, through to easy to use capacity tools that help you see popular classes and limit attendance, Club Manager by BMABA is built by martial artists, for martial artists.

Give Your Students & Parents Proper Visibility

From being able to see their own attendance record, grade, time through to next grading opportunity and even the specific syllabus requirements. One screen, one easy to follow update for parents or students. Fully customisable, and entirely unique to your club.

An easy to use, comprehensive system that's completely free and makes managing your club easy.

We’ve built ClubManager by BMABA from the ground-up exclusively for our clubs. We’re experts in martial arts, so we know exactly where the pinch-points in club management adn admin occur. 

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We know choosing the right association—or just figuring out what support your club really needs—can feel overwhelming. That’s why we’re always happy to talk it through.

Whether you’re curious about membership, need help with something specific, or just want a no-pressure chat to see if we’re the right fit, our team is ready. No bots. No scripts. Just real people, working full-time from our UK office, here to help clubs like yours thrive.

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Whether you’re comparing support, questioning the value in your current membership, or just need to talk things through — we’re happy to help.

We’re a real team, working full-time from our UK office — not a voluntary outfit run from someone’s kitchen table. You’ll feel the difference the moment you get in touch.

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BMABA CIC isn’t just another organisation claiming to serve martial arts — we’re a regulated, independently audited, multi-award-winning social enterprise leading from the front.

We hold ISO9001:2015 certification under UKAS accreditation — the same gold standard used to assess hospitals, universities, and major corporations. We’re also regulated by the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies (CIC Regulator), meaning we’re legally bound to reinvest every penny back into grassroots martial arts.

We haven’t been propped up by corporate sponsors or legacy funding. We’ve grown organically — one instructor at a time, by doing what we said we’d do and showing up when others didn’t. Since 2012, we’ve supported clubs through hardship, driven national reforms, and built a respected, professional home for independent martial arts.

Today, we’re trusted by more than 6,500 instructors and clubs and support over 100,000 members across 140+ disciplines. Along the way, we’ve earned national recognition — from awards in governance and inclusion, to features across BBC, ITV, and The Guardian.

We didn’t inherit status. We earned it — by raising the bar, and never compromising on our values.

Empower Your Club With A Platform That Works For You

Run your martial arts club smarter with our full-featured, professionally-built Club Management Platform — funded entirely by our not-for-profit mission, not a corporate agenda. No upsells. No hidden costs. Just powerful, intuitive tools included free with your membership.

Built to save you time, money, and stress — and trusted by thousands of clubs nationwide.

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Not everyone understands what makes us different. But for those who do, the reasons are clear — from our award-winning governance to the groundbreaking support we offer clubs of all sizes.

Whether it’s our industry-leading safeguarding standards, our not-for-profit mission, or our powerful club tech funded purely by membership — there’s a reason more than 6,500 instructors and 3,500 clubs trust us.

Built For The Sector — Not For Shareholders

BMABA wasn’t inherited or bought — it was built. And in 2025, we made the bold decision to give it away.

Our founder, who grew up in poverty and built BMABA from scratch with just £20, voluntarily converted the organisation into a regulated not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) — surrendering nearly £2 million in private value to protect its mission for the long term. That means no for profit shareholders, no dividends, and no profiteering — just an unwavering commitment to community impact.

We’re a registered social enterprise, governed by the CIC Regulator, certified to ISO9001:2015 under UKAS accreditation, and led by a multi-award winning social entrepreneur who believes martial arts should serve the people, not the few.

This isn’t a vanity project with self-appointed 8th dans — it’s a movement, built for clubs, by clubs.

Nationally Recognised Standards

Our Club Colours and Regulation Ready awards go far beyond branding or badges — they represent some of the most robust safeguarding and compliance standards available anywhere in UK martial arts.

Mapped directly against the Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts (SCiMA) and formally approved by Sport England, our frameworks allow clubs to earn full SCiMA recognition directly through the MyBMABA platform — automatically and at no cost. We are the only independent governing body, and one of just two organisations nationwide, including Sport England’s own NGBs, granted the authority to issue SCiMA certification in this way.

No waiting. No third-party submission. No extra cost. Every BMABA member has access to this, included as part of our not-for-profit mission to raise standards from the ground up.

Others talk about safeguarding. We built a national infrastructure to deliver it.

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We offer a genuine 12 months of free membership — with absolutely no catches, obligations, or hidden clauses.

Why? Because we believe you deserve the chance to see, first-hand, what it feels like to be supported by an organisation that genuinely has your back. We know how often martial arts clubs have been let down by associations and governing bodies that overpromise and underdeliver — or worse, treat instructors as revenue, not people.

We’re not here to sell you on hype. We’re here to show you what real, modern martial arts governance and support can look like.

Whether you’re looking for insurance, safeguarding help, student tools, guidance, structure, or just a community that understands your club’s challenges — our free membership gives you access to the same resources, platform, and support we provide to thousands of instructors and clubs across the UK.

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