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    For federations and clubs

    A national federation, a regional association or a club can publish its own guidance on the techniques, skills and sequences in this reference: what its examiners look for, how its coaches teach a movement, its safety rules and the names it uses. Readers who choose your organisation see that guidance on the pages it covers, under your organisation's name.

    How readers see it

    • After the reference's own content. Your guidance sits at the foot of the page, under "How it is taught elsewhere", with your organisation's name and country on it.
    • Only for readers who choose you. A reader ticks your organisation under Organisations' own guidance on My progress. Every other reader sees one line naming your organisation and where to choose it.
    • Public all the same. The text is published openly in the content repository, and anyone can read it there.
    • Set up for your members in one link. Tick your organisation when you build a link on Club links, and members who follow it see your guidance straight away.

    What it can cover

    Any technique, skill or sequence, and the essentials guides such as tying your belt. Each page of guidance is made of sections, and each section is one of these:

    • Examining: what your examiners look for.
    • Coaching: how you teach it, as prose, numbered steps or both.
    • Safety: your own safety rules for it.
    • Terminology: the names your organisation uses.
    • Context: anything else a reader needs to understand your approach.

    A page of guidance can also carry demonstration videos and links to your own material.

    The rules

    • It adds to the reference and never replaces it. There is nowhere to put a replacement description. If you believe a page is wrong, suggest a correction and the fix reaches every reader.
    • A technique documented for recognition only takes no instructions. The prohibited techniques that are never to be applied carry no step-by-step guidance from anyone, your organisation included.
    • Your organisation signs off its own words. Once your organisation takes ownership of its guidance, the editors you name review every change to it before it is published.
    • The same licence as everything else here. Your guidance is published under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which lets others share and adapt it for non-commercial use, with credit, on the same terms. Agree that inside your organisation before you send anything.

    Getting started

    1. Tell us your organisation's name, its country, and who will act as its editors. Email [email protected], or use the suggestion page.
    2. Your organisation is added to the reference. A club can name the national or regional body it belongs to.
    3. Send your guidance. If your editors use GitHub, the contributor guide sets out the file format and they can open a pull request. If they do not, send the text by email and we will agree the format with you.

    Already publishing here

    • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan