The athlete register.
Every member the federation has entered has a public register entry: name, federation ID, city and state, and the current grade together with how that grade is known. Look one up by federation ID below. No contact details are published, and never a full date of birth — the year of birth alone.
Look up a federation ID.
The federation ID is printed on a membership card and on every certificate. Entering it opens that member’s public register entry — the same record an employer, a school or a tournament organiser would see.
Checking a certificate rather than a member? The verification service takes a certificate number as well as a member ID, and tells you which record it answered from.
Searching the whole register.
The register cannot be browsed in bulk, and that is deliberate
A single register entry is public — that is what the lookup above is for, and it is how a grade gets checked. A list of members is a different thing: it is the federation’s membership roll, and a page that let anyone page through it by state, club and age would be an export of children’s data with a search box on top.
So browsing is available to federation officers within their own scope only — a state officer sees their own state, a dojo officer their own dojo — and that restriction is enforced in the database query, not on this page. If you hold such a role, sign in and this section becomes a filterable register.
Two grades, two different claims.
Traced to a recorded examination
The grade is backed by a grading held by the federation, with examiner scores and a decision behind it in this system. This is the strongest claim the register can make about a grade.
A real grade that predates digital records
The grade predates the federation’s digital examination records. The federation holds evidence for it, but it is not backed by an examination scorecard in this system. It is labelled rather than quietly presented as the same thing — a register that cannot say how it knows is not a register.