The governing body for competitive light sword martial arts in the United States. We establish the rules, certify the officials, sanction the competitions, and keep the official record of the sport.
Light sword martial arts is a real martial art built around the light sword: a nine-form curriculum trained with polycarbonate training sabers, taught in real academies, and competed in three certified formats: from judged solo forms to regulated full-contact combat with electronic scoring backed by Century Martial Arts.
LSMAF is the sport's governing body, the organization that publishes its rules, certifies its officials, sanctions its competitions, and keeps its permanent record. If this page is your first contact with the sport, start with the formats below, then find your city's team.
Claim Federation membership, get your Member ID, and compete in sanctioned events where every result enters the permanent national record. Members under eighteen enroll through a parent or guardian.
Affiliate with the Federation, sanction events on your own floor, and register the official City Team for your city. The first team in each state carries the permanent Founding Team designation.
Certify as a Level-1 or Level-2 judge or referee under the published standards and join the credentialed corps behind every official result in the sport.
Every recognized sport on Earth stands on the same four pillars: a rulebook everyone competes under, officials certified to enforce it, sanctioned events whose results enter a permanent record, and a membership counted by name and by consent.
LSMAF exists to build those pillars for light sword martial arts, before recognition, not after. The Federation is the regulatory infrastructure behind every sanctioned academy, league, and championship in the sport, including a federation-registered network across the United States and internationally, including Japan.
Solo technical performance, the nine-form curriculum executed to a published judging standard. Precision, structure, and control, scored by certified judges.
Two-person choreographed sequences judged on timing, technique, and mutual control, the discipline that bridges artistry and combat.
Regulated full-contact competition under the Federation Combat regulations: safety-gated, referee-controlled, with electronic scoring backed by Century Martial Arts.
The founding instruments of the Federation: structure, membership rights, and board governance.
Forms, Paired Performance, and Combat regulations, the single standard every sanctioned event runs under.
Level-1 and Level-2 judge and referee standards, the credentialed corps behind every official result.
Clean-sport standards adopted from the founding, because the record must survive scrutiny.
Every sanctioned result logs to one national rankings system on Saber Circuit, the Federation's official tournament platform, standings that travel between clubs, academies, and countries.
Published procedures for sanctioning competitions and reporting official results into the Federation record.
Consent-based enrollment by legal name and country, a roster built to survive international diligence.
The complete F-series: every competition and administrative procedure, documented and repeatable.
Governing documents · complete corpus · see governance →
International recognition is not petitioned into existence. It is evidenced. National championships. Sanctioned regional competition. A certified officials corps. A counted, consenting membership across multiple countries. LSMAF is assembling that record match by match, member by member.
The first sanctioned regional competition on the Federation record.
Regional rankings points across Forms, Paired Performance, and Combat.
The first Federation-sanctioned national title event across all three certified formats.
Saber Circuit is the Federation's official tournament management platform, where teams register, brackets run live, and every sanctioned result enters the permanent record.
Single and double elimination, round robin, and Swiss formats, updated in real time as matches conclude.
Team creation, athlete registration, and club profiles: the competitive identity layer of the sport.
Two published tiers: Community (STX) league play and LSMAF-sanctioned results. One national ladder each, never blurred.
The Team Registry, visualized: claimed states carry their Founding Team's crest; open states read unclaimed.
Every affiliated academy fields the official City Team for its city. The first team in a state enters the Federation record as the Founding Team of that state, an honorific written once, and never rewritten.
Athletes, coaches, officials, academies, and independent clubs worldwide. The Federation counts its members by name, and the founding generation is being written into the record now.