What Can IMAS do for you?

IMAS membership offers a great deal of benefits to the martial arts practitioner. A few of these are listed below:

Enrich your martial arts training experience:

IMAS will offer you several completely new perspectives upon your regular martial arts training simply because it will cause you to look at the techniques you are practicing in a different and more profound way.

Improve your CV:

IMAS membership means that you belong to a recognised professional body, dedicated to setting standards of excellence. Being able to put the respective letters after your name demonstrates your commitment and shows people that you are to be taken seriously

Enhance your qualifications:

IMAS membership is a much sought-after professional qualification in its own right. In  addition to this, the institute runs regular CPD courses in relevant aspects, as well as certificate, diploma and even degree courses in the martial arts and related subjects.

Greater status and credibility:

IMAS is an officially recognised professional body in the UK, and now has branches all over the world. As well as being an NCFE Approved Centre and having a close working partnership with various universities, IMAS also maintains full membership of Skills Active, the Government Sector Skills council for sport and recreation.

In addition, IMAS is listed in British Qualifications alongside other academic institutions.

This means that membership of IMAS counts for a huge amount, with its qualifications meaning a lot in all aspects of a persons life, rather than just the martial arts club.

Access to national and international events:

IMAS has regular conferences, seminars and courses. Some of these events are strictly academic in nature whereas others might well consist of mainstream martial arts training with very senior grades, or even competitions.

Access to the institutes extensive learning resources:

IMAS maintains a large library of learning materials that is continually being added to and updated by our research fellows and post-graduate students, thanks to their efforts, and the efforts of the IMAS archivist, this is a unique and constantly growing body of material gathered from all over the world.

Opportunities to get your work published:

IMAS academic research papers and articles are regularly published throughout the world. The new IMAS newsletter has been launched in order to provide a vehicle for some of these, and it is envisaged that IMAS will initiate it’s very own peer-reviewed journal sometime in the near future. The newsletter enables all IMAS members to stay up to date with the very latest developments in the martial arts and sciences. Having your work published enables you to contribute to this important work, and any work published may be included on your CV/Resume