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A dojo answers to someone.
A club that belongs to nothing can tell you anything it likes about its standards. These are the bodies Hizashikan actually answers to, and what that means for you in practice.
Hizashikan is a member club of the British Martial Arts & Boxing Association (BMABA), one of the UK's long-established multi-style governing bodies. For a student or a parent, that membership is not a badge on a website — it is three practical things.
Insurance. Training is covered through the association rather than by an arrangement the dojo has made on its own. If something goes wrong on the mat, there is a policy behind it.
Instructor standards. The association runs coaching, first aid and safeguarding courses, and expects instructors to keep them current. That is the difference between a club that says it takes teaching seriously and one that can show it.
Vetting and safeguarding. The dojo operates inside the association's safeguarding framework, which sets expectations for background checks and for how concerns are raised and handled. visit our safeguarding page for more info
If any of this matters to you before you visit — and it should — ask, and we will show you the paperwork rather than describe it.
Governing association
British Martial Arts & Boxing Association
Our governing association: insurance cover for every session, instructor courses, and the safeguarding framework the dojo works within.
Visit British Martial Arts & Boxing Association →Where it comes from
What Hizashikan teaches did not start here. It was learned at the Budokan du Maroc in Casablanca from Shihan Abderrahman Bahaddou, and through him from the generations before. That is the line this dojo actually stands in, and it is the reason the Saturday class looks the way it does.
We would rather name one real teacher than a list of impressive organisations. Aikido has a habit of decorating itself with affiliations, and a club's honesty about its own lineage is worth more to a prospective student than its letterhead.