When you successfully complete the Certified Martial Arts Teacher (CMAT) or Krav Maga Instructor Certification program, you obtain the CMAT designation and automatically get accredited by the Global Martial Arts Association (GMAA).
The GMAA is not a fees-based membership organization with numerous benefits or programs. Instead, it exists to provide martial-arts teaching accreditation to CMAT graduates. Through the CMAT designation, the association gives instructors, school operators, and their students a common backbone of structure and guidance in their respective martial-arts programs.
The benefit of being accredited by the GMAA is that it gives you and, by extension, your martial-arts school official recognition and the ability/credibility to assign ranks to your students in your particular martial-arts style. This is especially important if you or your school do not already have official teaching accreditation by any martial-arts organization in your style.
Only an individual instructor can obtain GMAA accreditation by becoming a CMAT. You can't obtain GMAA teacher recognition in any other way.
When you become a GMAA-accredited instructor, you're solely responsible for your own curriculum, classes, and school operation. You'll be placed on the GMAA's list of accredited locations but your studio won't be an official GMAA or GMAU school. This is because you might teach a completely different martial-art style or curriculum than our instructors do.