UMAA has four (4) separate divisions
to meet the needs of our members.
These divisions include:

• Okinawan Karate Transition Program
• All-Styles Martial Arts
• Okinawa Kobudo
• Women's Self Defense Division

All UMAA memberships (for all divisions and membership types) are on an Annual Basis (calendar year).

Each Dojo or Affiliated Organization within the UMAA is required to be registered with the Federation.

All Dojo or Affiliated Organization registrations will be issued a Registration Certificate (Charter) from UMAA. Each UMAA Dojo or Affiliated Organization must be supported by a State or Regional UMAA representative. In this manner the Dojo or Affiliated Organization is guaranteed to have a specific individual responsible for supporting their program. New Members/Dojo/Organizations may request to become the UMAA representative for their state if none exist. In this case, the Regional representative will assume responsibility of assisting the new State representative dojo/organization.

All members of a UMAA Registered Karate / or Karate-Kobudo Dojo should be active individual members of the Association.

In the case of those Dojos / Affiliated Organizations only involved in the UMAA Okinawa Kobudo Division, all individuals of the member body training in UMAA Shorin Ryu Kobudo are expected to be active individual members of the UMAA. Active UMAA Individual Membership will be required for any such individual to receive rank certification in Okinawa Kobudo from UMAA.

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