Membership / Licence Application

Twin Dragon Martial Arts Membership Application

For the following ‘member' will refer to a practitioner of Premier Martial Arts, Tae Kwon-Do or Kickboxing.
Twin Dragon Martial Arts Schools will be referred to as TDMAS
The governing association, Black Belt Schools International will be referred to as the BBSI.

1. Only Instructors registered and licenced through BBSI may instruct classes
2. Members must obey the instructors at all times for safety reasons
3. Each member must be licenced with BBSI through TDMAS. It is the member's responsibility to ensure this is kept up to date.
4. Members who are not licenced are not allowed to participate in contact activities.
5. Members are reminded that TDMAS include a combative element and therefore, as with all contact sports, occasional injuries are inevitable.
6. Members must have the minimum of hand and foot protection if they wish to spar.
7. It is recommended, however, that members also wear head guards, mouth guards, forearm protectors, body armour (chest guards), groin guards and shin guards.
8. i. A Semi-Contact rule applies to sparring.
ii. This recognises that contact will be made and is inevitable.
iii. However, the object of sport or competition sparring is to score points, not injure an opponent.
iv. The natural level of contact will vary according to ability and grade.
v. It is stressed that all sparring is to be performed at the level of the lowest grade or ability.
vi. Any member who appears to be, in the instructor's eyes, sparring too aggressively and causing unnecessary injury will be disciplined by the club.
vii. Any member wishing to practice higher levels of contact (i.e. competition or full contact) may only do so with the consent and express permission of the instructor team.
viii. It is accepted that the instructors cannot supervise every action by every member. It is the member's responsibility to ensure that they do not cause unnecessary injury to a partner during any part of training.
viv. Occasionally instructors will participate in sparring to allow members to develop and learn from sparring senior grades. This is for the benefit of the members and gives the instructors direct input on the standard of a member and gives an example to all members of correct control and form. When doing this it is obviously very difficult to comprehensively supervise the rest of the class.-
x. As such it is the member's responsibility to ensure than injuries are not caused - specifically during free sparring - i.e. they are liable for their own actions.
xi. However, if it is felt that a member is not complying with the clubs spirit regarding contact levels then the instructors reserve the right to discipline that member according to Part 10.
9. Disciplinary action will involve verbal warnings, written warnings, being prohibited
from certain activities (e.g. sparring) or being barred from the club.