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Your Training: How to Build an MMA Program for Your Martial Arts School

by Tom Callos
I just, a minute ago on a phone call, heard it again: Tom, were going to put together an MMA training program.
What that means is a karate / taekwondo school, one that has traditionally taught a curriculum built around point (tag, youre it) sport-karate or Olympic competition-based taekwondo, believes that theyre missing out on a segment of the market (translate: missing out on making sales) by not offering or advertising that theyre teaching MMA (mixed martial arts).
After all, the gag-zillion dollars that the UFC and other cage-fighting organizations spend on promotion have brought up a new generation of potential students / customers that have seen how utterly useless and ineffective traditional martial arts programs are when two highly conditioned athletes step into a caged fighting area and try to beat each other senseless.
Watching todays opportunistic martial arts associations, billing companies, and business gurus churn out ready-to-sell MMA curriculum programs and weekend MMA certifications makes me think of the early 1970s, when Bruce Lee and the TV show Kung Fu were the rage and kung fu programs began popping up like so many weeds.
But dont get me wrong, I think you should embrace MMA, that is mixed martial arts. I dont think your curriculum should be built around what some billing company suggests is the optimum curriculum to make money. I dont think your schools curriculum should be built solely around acrobatic performances, unrealistic fighting based on rules that so limit what combatants are allowed to do it almost becomes a parody of actual fighting, or some method of practice (like General Chois ITF taekwondo for example) that is so obtuse it borders on the ridiculous.
So, to really start learning and teaching a kind of MMA thats more than just a superficial marketing strategy to try and capitalize on the free testosterone-marketing of the UFC, I offer you the following recommendations.
To Develop Your MMA Program, Engage in the Following Activities: Study and train in the Crossfit system (www.crossfit.com) for at least a year. Now that means that the owner and his or her staff all engage in Crossfit training. If your team isnt actually training, youre not fit to teach whatever it is you want to advertise. Get a pro-boxing coach and learn how to box (Muay Thai is great too). With some occasional exceptions, If you cant box, you cant fight.
NOTE: Training for the ring means getting very, very fit. More than 50% of what youll experience in a real MMA or boxing program is fitness training. So, before you claim to teach MMA, every member of your team has to be somewhere close to fighter-fit. If you cant do that, stick to whatever it is you teach today.
Begin judo or BJJ or Sambo and/or wrestling immediately. By the time youre a BJJ purple belt, youll know a thing or two about grappling and training to be a good grappler. Without this training your MMA program is a joke. Call Bill Kipp, Peyton Quinn, and Tony Blauer. If you dont have a good deal of time invested in these teachers training programs, youre missing out on something very important about the martial arts and authentic in-the-world MMA. Spend at least a month in a real fight-camp (training) where real high-level competitors are training for competition, as a profession.
Now, after youve gone through the training Ive outlined above, youll know enough about MMA to design a program thats at least half-way decent. Remember that all of your schools curriculum should be built around the real, life-experience and training of the teaching staff.
This time next year, youll be so far ahead of where you are today --and so much more knowledgeable --that you wont have to buy someones MMA program, what youve learned will pour out of you like sweat from a good workout.
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History of martial arts in this month ...
Category Date Event
7/0/1973 bruce Lee was buried at Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle. Bruce Lee
7/1/1972 HWA RANG DO Founder Dr. Joo-Bang Lee arrives in the United States of America -at this time there were 68 Hwa Rang Do schools in Korea.
7/1/1977 HWA RANG DO exhibition at the Oriental Culture Festival for the City of Los Angeles.
7/3/1931 Jack Hwang (Birthday) Birthdays
7/3/1957 Mike McCoy (Birthday) Birthdays
7/4/2000 Greek Taekwondo delegation, including Athens Olympic Games Organizing Committee [ATHOC 2004] Competition Manager for Taekwondo Michalis Fissentjidis, visited WTF President Dr. Un Yong KIM to the Kukkiwon.
7/4/2001 FUMIO TOYODA passed away … Deaths
7/5/1922 Eiichi Miyazato (Birthday) Birthdays
7/7/1954 Lillian Hasslemann (Birthday) Birthdays
7/7/1969 Suahm Dosa passes on. Founder Dr. Joo-Bang Lee becomes the 58th heir to the title of Hwarang and Supreme Grandmaster
7/9/1936 Nick Cerio (Birthday) Birthdays
7/11/1957 Tokey Hill (Birthday) Birthdays
7/12/1923 Masutatsu Oyama (Birthday) Birthdays
7/13/1913 William Kwai-sun Chow (Birthday) Birthdays
7/14/2000 July 14, 2000 FISU Executive Board meeting in Beijing selected Taegu, Korea as the host city of the 22nd Universiade in 2003 and Taekwondo was adopted as one of the programs of the 2003 Universiade.
7/14/2002 Hwan Kee the founder of Tang Soo Do passes away …
7/15/1972 Rainbow Publication's BLACK BELT MAGAZINE features Grandmaster Joo-Sang Lee on it's cover
7/15/1906 Soshin Nagamine (Birthday) Birthdays
7/16/1972 HWA RANG DO exhibition at the Oriental Culture Festival for the City of Los Angeles
7/16/1986 Fred Hamilton (passed away …) Death
7/17/1980 The International Olympic Committee recognized WTF at its 83rd Session in Moscow.
7/19/1952 John Soet (Birthday) Birthdays
7/20/1973 Bruce Lee dies ... Bruce Lee
7/21/1954 Eric Pariset (Birthday) Birthdays
7/21/1936 Haeng Ung Lee (Birthday) Birthdays
7/21/1923 Masutatsu Oyama was born
7/22/1997 SOCOG announced the change of the dates and the venue of the Taekwondo competition of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
7/24/1936 Dan Inosanto's Birthday
7/24/1942 Bow Sim Mark (Birthday) Birthdays
7/26/1926 Grandmaster Seikichi Odo was born …
7/27/1967 Anthony Holloway (Birthday) Birthdays
7/27/1922 Horoku Ishikawa (Birthday) Birthdays
7/28/1954 Kazuo "Sonny" Onowo (Birthday) Birthdays
7/28/1986 WTF President and Secretary General gave a presentation of the sport of Taekwondo ...
7/28/1962 Phillip Wong (Birthday) Birthdays
7/29/1981 Taekwondo participated in the first World Games as an official sport.
7/30/1937 Georg Buckner (Birthday) Birthdays
7/30/1948 Eric Lee's Birthday (Birthday) Birthdays
7/31/1957 Na'im Hasan (Birthday) Birthdays
7/31/1973 Kinichi (a.k.a. "Azumafuji") Inoune (passed away …) Death


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