{"id":86720,"date":"2026-08-21T05:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/?page_id=86720"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:34:53","slug":"itp-instructor-training-pathway-and-cadet-training-pathway-for-uk-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bmaba.org.uk\/clubs\/uk-martial-arts-association-governing-body-instructor-membership\/itp-instructor-training-pathway-and-cadet-training-pathway-for-uk-martial-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"ITP – Instructor Training Pathway and Cadet Training Pathway For UK Martial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\tInstructor Training Pathway .<\/i> Included Free<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Your Club Already Trains Its Instructors. This Is The Framework That Proves It.<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Every serious club develops its own people. Years of shadowing, correcting, trusting someone with a warm-up and then a class. The problem has never been the training. It has been that none of it is written down anywhere that counts, so the person doing it has nothing to show for it and you have nothing to point at.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The Instructor Training Pathway gives that work an external, accredited structure without taking a single decision away from you.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOpen Your ITP Dashboard<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHow the club controls it<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\"An\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/header>\n\n\t\t\t
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The Club Holds The Keys. We Hold The Framework.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The fear with any external pathway is that it arrives with opinions about how you should run your club. This one does not, and the design makes that structural rather than a promise.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

BMABA sets a floor: minimum hours, minimum observations, minimum waiting periods, and safeguarding requirements that cannot be reduced. Above that floor, everything is yours. Which courses count. Which competencies matter. How many hours you want on the mat. Whether a grading, a competition or your own in-house seminar has to be completed before anyone gets signed off. Whether that applies to everybody by default or is built individually, person by person.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Your in-house programme does not become redundant. It becomes the thing the certificate is actually evidencing. The pathway records what happens in your club, under your standards, and then puts a national framework around it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n\n\t\t\t

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Four Things You Decide, Once Or Per Person<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

Set your club standards once in Club Settings and they apply to everyone you enrol afterwards, or build a bespoke programme for an individual where that makes more sense.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Your own competencies and sign-offs<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Every club starts with three compulsory observations: Warm Up, Cool Down and Technical Skills. Beyond those, switch on anything from the shipped library, sparring or randori, kata, forms and patterns, weapons handling, pad and focus work, leading a grading, conditioning, behaviour management, injury response, class set-up and close-down, or write your own from scratch.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Anything you mark compulsory has to be signed off before the award. Your syllabus, your standards, your judgement.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Your own thresholds<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

The BMABA minimums are a floor and you can raise any of them. Shadowing hours, training hours, other CPD, mat hours and sessions taught are all yours to set higher if your club expects more before it will put its name to somebody.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

You cannot go below the floor, and if requirements become excessive we may ask you to bring them back to something achievable. Between those two points it is entirely your call.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Your own required CPD, including in-house<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Require any BMABA course you want as part of the pathway. More usefully, add your own: your club’s internal instructor seminar, your style’s technical grading course, a session you run yourself twice a year. It becomes a required component in exactly the same way, tracked and evidenced alongside everything else.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

This is the part clubs are most surprised by. Your in-house training is not something the pathway works around. It is something the pathway can enforce.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Your own progress markers<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Gradings, competitions, events, courses run by your association, anything you consider a milestone can sit in the programme as a required marker. If your club has always said nobody teaches until they have graded twice and worked an event, the pathway can hold that as a rule rather than as something everyone half-remembers.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Apply your standards by default to everyone you enrol, or build something individual where a particular person needs a different route.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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One For Adults, One For Under-18s<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t

The two run on the same engine and are configured the same way. What differs is the outcome, the pacing and the safeguarding around it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Outcome is BMABA Instructorship Status: formal recognition that the person has completed the programme and is held by their club to be an instructor in standing. Minimum 90 days from the programme start date, typically twelve to thirty-six months in practice.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t