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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.

01

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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Representing Over 100,000 Members Across 94 Disciplines

A completely free club management system.

We know. What’s the catch? Well, we’re a trade body for martial arts, not a profit-hungry corporation. We know how important the latest tech is in keeping our clubs kicking and – ultimately – that keeps us going too!

FREE Club Management Software Exclusively Built By Us, Just For Our Clubs

ClubManager by BMABA is our in-house, professionally developed Club Management solution. It’s free for all of our members and comes with a tonne of essential and groundbreaking features as standard.

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  • Attendance & Grade Tracking
  • Student Records Management
  • Class Bookings & Timetables
  • Flexible Payments & Memberships
  • Grading Certificates Generator
  • Licence Slip & Documents Generator
  • Customised Branding & Functionality
  • Data Freedom & Ownership
  • Leads & Prospects Management
  • Online Video Training Library
  • 1to1 Tuition Management & Billing
  • Events Management & Ticketing
  • Secure Safeguarding Case Management
  • Manage Events & Competitions
  • Student Portal & Member's Content
  • Concussion & RtP Management
  • Digital Incident Log Book
  • Digital Risk Assessments
  • Task Management
  • Registrations & Waivers
  • Built-In Club Community & Forums
  • Manual Invoicing
  • Accounting & Budgeting
  • Staff Management & Staffroom
  • Calendar & Scheduling
  • Business Management & Planning
  • Easy To Use Parent Accounts

Membership with BMABA is so much more than just a piece of paper.

From template grading certificates and draft documents through to a free club website and national club listings. Whether it be advice on club structure and marketing or membership marks and qualifications. DBS checks, first aid qualifications, coaching certificates, instructor licenses, insurance, business plans, equipment, graphics – even club management platforms and web hosting. We can cover it under just one simple, affordable membership.

Founded in 2012 by the now Multi-Award Winning Social Entrepreneur & Life-Long Martial Artist, Giovanni Soffietto.

Frustrated by a governing structure in martial arts that failed to look forward to the future, Giovanni setup BMABA in 2012. Aged just 20 with only £20 of ‘start-up capital’ BMABA comes from humble beginnings.

Focused on professional standards and ethics rather than belts and titles, BMABA boasts the pedigree of a life-long martial arts expert come award winning social entrepreneur as it’s Chief Executive Officer. It’s fair to say we’re well qualified and backed by an industry giant. We now turnover more than £1,000,000 and support tens of thousands of martial artists across the UK.

"BMABA give away belts for cash"

"BMABA don't care about safeguarding"

"BMABA are so unprofessional"

Over the past 13+ years we’ve heard so much of this sort of nonsense from the ‘old boys’ associations.

The truth couldn’t be further than their lazy, fear-filled assertions. We’re a disruptor, renowned for our professionalism and governance, but they wouldn’t want you to know that. 

In an industry so full of cowboys, we don’t expect you to take our word for any of this. Dig beneath the surface, and see for yourself.

Membership To BMABA Is So Much More Than Just A Piece Of Paper

We have always been focused on providing clubs with everything they need under a single membership, and our range of resources, tools and features delivers exactly that.

From template grading certificates and documents through to a free club website and national club listings. Whether it be advice on club structure and marketing or membership marks and qualifications. DBS checks, first aid qualifications, coaching certificates, instructor licenses, insurance, business plans, equipment, graphics – you named it, we cover it under just one simple, affordable membership.

Club Colours Award That Exceeds Sport England’s Safeguarding Standards

Our Club Colours Award process not only issues a ‘school of excellence’ mark to clubs who hold it, but the safeguarding oversight has been mapped against SCiMA and then approved by Sport England which allows us to automatically issue the ‘Safeguarding Code in Martial Arts’ award to every club that holds our ‘tick mark’. We receive zero funding to run this, but we ensure it’s completely free for every single BMABA member to access.

We’re the only independent association who can offer this.

Certification, Insurance & Evidence With You, On The Go.

Tired of waiting weeks for hand-written documents in the post? Access your BMABA instructor’s documentation, student license slips, insurance certification and even your own submitted DBS checks, first aid qualifications and other criteria 24/7.

Our systems provide you with access to all of this documentation on the go. Be it from a mobile, our app or a desktop – so you can access, download and share your certification when you need it most.

BMABA App

Available for free on Android and OS devices, the BMABA app allows instructors, volunteers and assistant instructors to access the latest updates, resources, guidance, community, forums and loads more. Bring your association, along with all your digital certification – with you in your pocket.

Industry Renowned Qualifications & Training

We’re always building on our library of industry-leading awards and qualifications. This includes our Level 1 and Level 2 instructor qualifications, our Safeguarding & Lead Safeguarding qualifications, our First Aid Award, Club Colours Award, Club Management Qualifications, Risk Management, Concussion & Head Injury, and so much more. 

All online and accessible 24/7 from any device.

The Ultimate, FREE, Club Management Platform

We provide all members with access to exclusive student management software which will help you track attendance, see student details, show your class schedule, accept online bookings, run a club shop, update your members with club news, run a members’ only area and so much more. All completely free of charge.

From SEO, AI and Analytics through to content publishing, class scheduling, online incident log book entries and so, so much more. It’s all inclusive at no extra cost making BMABA the industry leaders in affordable tech solutions for martial arts clubs.

£1,000 Of Tools, Rolled Into One Affordable Membership

From template grading certificates, safeguarding policies and club registration forms to our online logo designer, club accreditation marks and premium club finder listings. BMABA Club Cash Grants and designated safeguarding lead services through to marketing plans, SEO platforms, AI software, Wordpress websites, web hosting and so, so much more. It’s all inclusive and wrapped up into your membership fee so you can access more services with us than anywhere else without paying a penny more.

We Grant Up To £500 To Help Clubs Make Charitable Impact & Grow

Our BMABA Club Grants Scheme donates up to £500 per grant to clubs up and down the UK of all sizes. It helps to make a difference to clubs who want to make a charitable impact, purchase new kit to offer safer classes, or need emergency support in times of crisis. 

We’ve funded research into safeguarding failures in MMA, classes for women and girls at risk of abuse, scholarships for children living in poverty, new mats and punchbags for clubs wanting to safer classes, and so much more.

All self funded. From our profits, back into our community.

Ready to take your club to new heights?

It's in our slogan; "To High Places By Narrow Roads".

Plus So Much More As Standard Just Some Of The Tools & Resources We Offer

  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Student Insurance & Licensing
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Safeguarding Qualifications
  • Enhanced DBS Checks
  • First Aid Training
  • Free Club Website
  • Club Management Support
  • Instructor Certification & Licensing
  • Logos & Accreditation Marks
  • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Platform
  • Local & National Networking
  • Stock Grading Certificates
  • Free Instructor Qualifications
  • Template Documents & Forms
  • Printing & Design
  • Safeguarding Code For Martial Arts
  • Best Practice Guidance
  • Wordpress Hosting
  • a.i For Martial Arts
  • Event Management Checklists
  • Safeguarding Model Policies
  • Analytics & Tracking Tools
  • Budgeting Apps
  • Professional Webmail
  • Clothing & Uniform
  • Cyber Toolkit
  • Cash Grants & Funding
  • Risk Management Awards
  • Concussion & Head Injury
  • National Advertising
  • Entrepreneur's Support
  • Plus So Much More

Not entirely convinced?

Try us for free for 12 months, with no obligation.

There’s absolutely no obligation to commit beyond 12 months. You’ll be able to explore what we offer, our member’s area, all of our licensing options and get a better feel for the BMABA’s service without any obligation to become a full member. We genuinely believe the best way to find out if we’re any good is to try us yourself.

Thinking of switching?

We know there’s a lot to think about, and we can help.

We have absolutely no interest in enticing you to switch to BMABA if we’re not the right fit. We know that won’t last and isn’t good for you or us. Instead, we can offer a confidential switching process to help you price up whether or not it’s worth while, whilst also getting answers to any questions you might have.

We have a real team based out of a real office.

There’s nothing wrong with smaller martial arts associations. In fact, we think it’s good for competition and variety. Unfortunately too many are one-man bands run from kitchen tables, and not professional set ups with staff.

HQ

BMABA. Suite I & K, The Old Bakery, Golden Square, Petworth. GU28 0AP

Registered Office

BMABA, 132 City Road, London. N1 6AD

Servicing Office

BMABA, International House, Woolwich House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ

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Servicing Office: International House, Woolwich House, 61 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ
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