OFFICIAL MEMBERSHIP:
Here Is How To Join the BHMA & To Get Our Earned Membership Certificate: We will never charge you money to join. You earn your membership. Also we don't give out rank certificates either, as we have unique membership certificates that do not list your rank as knowledge is power not your rank. We are a group for both the beginner and advanced martial artist. Note we are now only accepting members through existing members. We want quality over quantity. If you are on our Facebook group this does not mean that you are a member. You must follow the rules below.
INTERNET MEMBERSHIP
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Sign up on our message board. Use your real name. This way we get no keyboard warriors. You will have to wait to be approved before you can post.
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Introduce yourself in the appropriate thread/section within 1 month of acceptance. Tell us of your training and more.
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Sending a copy of your certificate(s) regular mail. Send to BHMA - PO BOX 92 - NORTH DIGHTON, MA 02764
Send us a copy of your 1st Degree Black Belt Certificate & your current certificate by email or regular mail. If you are under black belt or in a system that has no rank that is okay as well. Some styles use titles. This way we get no 10th Degree 5 year black belts. If you are in a system with no rank then this step does not apply to you.
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Send us a real phone number and address so we can contact you to confirm your membership if we want to.
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To become a full member and to get our EARNED MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE you must post a minimum of 100 times. However legitimate martial artists who are not computer literate may be brought in by current members.
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To remain a member you must log in to the forum at least once before 120 days expires from your last visit to our forum. Members exceeding 120 days without logging on to the forum will be deleted from the forum. It is okay to lurk and not post on the forum. Many just want to learn, and don't feel comfortable posting and that is okay. Whether you are an active poster on the forum or not it does not matter as long as you log into your forum account before your 120 days are up. So basically if you log in once a month you can enjoy all we offer for FREE. This method gets rid of the Internet Certificate Collector. Members who have posts of 100 or more will not be automatically deleted. They will have permanent membership.
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As a member you give permission to the BHMA to use any of your images, pictures, or videos taking at any BHMA event, or used in our forum to be used for promotional purposes.
IN PERSON MEMBERSHIP
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To become an official member all you have to do is teach at an official BHMA event. Also our official members can induct those martial artists, whom they know personally, like an old instructor who might not be computer savvy.
Once you do this the BHMA will send you a link with the actual membership certificate for you to just add your information, and print out. It will be in Adobe Acrobat Format. Our membership certificate is just that, a membership certificate, not a promotional certificate.
Intellectual Property:
As a participant of our forum or at our Gatherings you give permission to the BHMA to use any of your images, likeness, logos, or videos taking
at any BHMA event or on this forum to be used for promotional purposes. Also any of your posts are property of the BHMA.
What does the membership certificate mean?
The certificate is unique as it is earned and not bought. It is backed up by all of our members. We hope that it will be something that you can be proud of for many years.
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