The objectives of the NZMAHOF are to:
· Honour those martial artists who have contributed, served and cultivated martial arts in this country in an outstanding manner.
· Provide guidance to martial arts groups and individuals.
· Provide a legitimate mechanism for senior level gradings.
· To bring together senior instructors, practitioners and groups in a non political, unbiased atmosphere, where the study and practice of martial arts can be celebrated in a spirit of friendship, comradeship and mutual development.
· Provide a channel for development of senior Budo practitioners where for reasons beyond their control, no other may exist.