CODE OF CONDUCT

Procedures For Entry Into Competitions
All entry forms for all competitions should come through the Head instructor to the students. Other Instructors/Organisations should forward invites and entries to a clubs Head Instructor not directly to a student. If the event is not open or invertational and the respective club as a whole is not invited to attend , a student should not be attending.

The only exception to this is where another organisation or club is having an event and your Head instructor is unknown to them and them to him. these events may be advertised in Australian Martial Arts Magazines. If such a student who is interested should then present it to their Head Instructor and he/she should then contact the organisers of the noted event for further information and entry forms, or else the interested student can contact them and then present all written information to their Head Instructor. So that all members in their club have the opportunity to attend and take part in the noted event. If the event is not open to all members within the respective club, then the interested student/s  should not attend.

The only exception to an event not being open to all members of a club is where the said event is an all senior or all junior event. Any other format is not ethical to the unwritten Martial Arts Code Of Conduct. Events other than those hosted by the AUSTRALIAN FORMFIGHTING ORGANISATION  AND ITS ASSOCIATED CLUBS must be sanctioned by a students Head Instructor, For both their mutual benefit and to uphold both their Martial Arts Integrity.

Overview
Australian Formfighting has certain standards which must be adhered to and hopefully these standards are in line with  general social ethics. Being a generic Martial Art, Formfighting allows a student to be judge on his or her individual capabilities according to sex, age and body type.

This does not mean that formfighting claims to be the ultimate Martial Art as each style of Martial Art is unique in its own way, as is each Instructor, but emphasis is placed on the student learning rather than the acquisition of belts and grades, on a balance between the soft and strong. Plus the ability to be able to maneuver between the two.

There is a very misconceived idea that a black belt is like superman, to obtain a black belt under a style that has a grading system does not mean that a person is a expert, but by far they have just completed their basic training and although Martial Arts movies and displays are good for the promotion of the Arts they as yet have a lot to answer for. the best Martial Artist will perform demonstrations of what they are capable of and to achieve the end result of what is required of them to perform these feats takes years of training, practice, self discipline and sweat. A black belt is not gained overnight, in weeks or months but takes years to earn.

The aim of the Australian Formfighting Organisation is not to put up the walls within the different fields of Martial Arts but to break down the barriers which exist between the different styles. But that of which is to unite Australian Martial Artist and make them relise that we have a lot to offer Australia and the rest of the world. The time has gone where we have to rely on the overseas influence to maintain our standard, but must realise that we, as Australian Martial Artists have a lot to offer the world, to help them maintain theirs.