Lifetime Student Grade Register (LSGR) Explained

The Lifetime Student Grade Register – or ‘LSGR’ for short – is a revolutionary system setup by BMABA in late 2022 to create the UK’s very first permanent record of martial arts participants. The premise is simple; to allow clubs to formally register a student grade at an initial grade, and to then have a record that can be easily updated throughout that student’s lifetime to ensure a proper, real-time and permanent record of grade and attainment. For system behind it however, is anything but simple and involves more than 1,000,000 API communications among our various record databases and systems per month to work.
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FOR CLUBS

It makes it really easy for clubs to add a supreme amount of worth to your grades. No longer are they purely club-level recognised; they’re now nationally recognised, and will be forever more. It’s a great marketing tool for parents and students alike – ‘real’ grades that are indexed on a publicly searchable database, so when you say they’ve earned their 5th Kyu there is a national record from a major association to back that up. No only this, it’s a great tool for your own record keeping, removing one more admin task from your list.
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FOR STUDENTS/PARENTS

No longer are they paying for just a standard grading. Now their grade (or their child’s grade) is recognised nationally by a major association. This means wherever they go in the UK, their grade will follow. It adds huge value to any grading certificate recieved, and helps students to trust the club when it issues grades, and to take that grading seriously.

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The LSGR provides a modern way of improving club marketing, retaining students, creating recognised life-long grades for students, and contributing to the very first national register for martial arts students in the UK. It’s a big deal, and it’s free for clubs to use. We’ll continue to fund it in full.

Before you can create a lifetime student grade register record you need to first of all have the individual saved as a registered named student.

We need to have a permanent, life-long base to attribute a student record to. This requires the student’s name, date of birth and other particulars in a way which can be easily cross-referenced to the LSGR. The only method we have that is secure and robust enough to handle this is a named student registration. This produces a student licence, and a permanent record when a student joins your club. This forms the starting point for a life-time long record.

Unfortunately not. The nature of the lifetime record means we need to base this on a permanent, un-expiring and non-editable student record. This is why we must insist on named students. If you use open allocation students, please speak with us to transfer some/all open allocations across to named students without charge.

If you want insurance, you can register students from £3.70 per student, per year with the price decreasing rapidly based on blocks of more than 10. Click here to find out more.

If you don’t want insurance, we can set up a named student record without insurance, so they have the licence required to setup a lifetime grade, for £0.89 as a one-off charge. Please contact us on web chat to set this up.

Creating a lifetime student record is quick and easy.

Start by going to the LSGR Dashboard, within MyBMABA.

From here, you'll see a 'CREATE NEW' button at the top left, above the main LSGR table.

It's free and unlimited to register new LSGR records.

Register a new grade per the simple form, selecting your named student from the dropdown.

After submitting the LSGR entry, you'll see confirmation on-screen.

You'll then be redirected to the LSGR Dashboard. If you refresh, you should find the record is pretty much available immediately, but it can take up to 2 minutes to filter through from time to time.

The LSGR table is filterable, and can help you quickly look through around 200 records per page.

The LSGR is an uneditable record, as it needs to be kept true and accurate going forwards. To avoid the 1% of record holders who may wish to alter gradings after the fact to fit their future needs, we instead maintain a 'read only' register. We can make changes for you, so if you spot any genuine errors, please let us know on chat and we'll be happy to change this for you.

You can use the eyeball next to each grading entry to view the full grading card;

You can also use the filter at the top of the page to find a student and click 'VIEW ALL CURRENT GRADES' to see a single page entry of the highest grade per discipline. This can be really helpful if you have a student with multiple disciplines, or where you want to just view the most recently held grade summary;

You also have the option of using the 'DOWNLOAD TO CSV' button, located just above the main table, if you'd rather produce a print-out (excel format) of all details shown in your LSGR system.

We've built a few markers to help you quickly see a snapshot of the LSGR database too.

Along the left hand column you'll notice an unilluminated shield. This should turn green when a student grade is of a 1st Dan or above threshold, or equivalent thereof. This isn't a replacement for your own eligibility considerations in club, but rather a useful tool to help you quickly spot senior students.

When searching from bmaba.org.uk/grade-check by name or LSGR number, they should find the relevant entry;

On searching, a colour-based (relating to the belt) record is visible;

Clicking into the record produces a more detailed overview based on the data you have provided.

You can quickly and easily produce official, professional grade certificates for any student, grade or style. Simply select the relevant grade entry, use the drop down to filter through an amazing range of grading certificates, and press 'generate grading certificate' to download a PDF infilled document, with all relevant information pre-entered for you.

You can still continue to create your own certificates – you don’t need to use our proof of grade. If you’d like to use a unique identifier, you can use the ‘LSGR Number’ (i.e: LSGR/231/A) to make your document unique, and easily identifiable. From the LSGR Dashboard, you can find a bank of logos and accreditation marks you can use freely on your documentation and websites.

We’re happy to help. Please start a live chat from the bottom right of your screen and our team will be happy to help.