Officials Certification Process
2025-2026 Officials Certification Process
The 2025-2026 Officials Certification process requires the completion of four steps. If you do not complete all four steps, you will not be certified for this competition year. To become a certified official, you must complete these steps:
1. Obtain your 2026 AAU Non-Athlete Membership
2. Complete the Officials Application Form
3. Complete the Officials On-Line Course
4. Attend an Officials Hand Signals Clinic
Obtain your 2025-2026 AAU Non-Athlete Membership if you are over 18 years of age. This is not immediate and should be done well in advance of completing the On-line Course and the Officials Hand Signals Clinic. You may obtain membership at this link: AAU Membership If you are under 18 years of age, you will require an Athlete Membership. All memberships expire on 8/31/2026 and must be renewed unless you signed up for multiple years and it indicates an expiration date after 8/31/2026.
Please verify your 2026 Official rank at AAU - Taekwondo Certified Officials. Do not guess or assume.
Please note that completing any of the online courses on a phone is difficult and at the end of a course module, you must submit the questions that you answered during the course. If those questions do not come up to be submitted using any electronic device, look to the bottom of the video and you will see a star. Click on the star and the questions will come up to be submitted.
AAU Taekwondo Official's Program Mission Statement
The AAU Taekwondo Officials' Program is dedicated to safe, fair competition, free of politics, held at the District, Regional and National levels. We will strive for excellence through continuous Officials' training at District, Regional and National levels by identifying our best Officials to work competitions. We will endeavor to have the best Officials' Program of any Martial Arts Organization in the U.S.
Officials’ Program
All AAU officials are required to become (RE) certified through a recognized Clinic Administrator on a yearly basis. Officials must be (RE) certified EACH YEAR prior to District or Regional qualifying competition. Certified officials wishing to officiate at the AAU Taekwondo National Championships are expected to take the officials clinic offered at the National Championships before they will be allowed to work the event. Anyone wishing to officiate at the AAU Junior Olympic Games will be required to attend the officials clinic offered at the AAU Junior Olympic Games before they will be allowed to work the AAU Junior Olympic Games event.
Disciplinary Actions
Officials are expected to maintain the highest standards of professionalism. An official whose conduct is determined to not measure up to these standards shall be subject to disciplinary action by the Executive Committee.
