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No dojo stands alone.
Traditional martial arts survive as a community or they do not survive at all. These are the clubs we train alongside, the association we insure and grade through, and the teachers our Aikido came from.
In Coventry
Aikido or not, a healthy martial arts scene is good for everyone. Aikido does not suit every person or every week of a person's life, and there is no sense pretending otherwise. If you are looking for a different art — something harder, something with competition, something for a child who wants to spar — start with our neighbours rather than with a search engine.
Replace with a real local club, with their permission. Karate, judo, boxing — the art matters less than that they are good people teaching well.
Visit [Placeholder — a neighbouring Coventry dojo] →Replace with a real local club, with their permission. Ask for a reciprocal link — it helps them as much as us.
Our association
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. [To be confirmed: the exact membership tier and the precise scope of the insurance cover, in the association's own wording.]
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. [To be confirmed: the correct name of the safeguarding scheme, and how it connects to the reporting route named in our safeguarding policy.]
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.
Our governing association: insurance cover for every session, instructor courses, and the safeguarding framework the dojo works within.
Visit British Martial Arts & Boxing Association →Lineage and international ties
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.
[To be confirmed: the dojo's actual international affiliations, if any, before publication. Nothing is named here until it is real.]