MMA Curriculum


Description
This 50-week MMA curriculum provides a comprehensive guide for trainers to develop students’ skills across all key aspects of mixed martial arts. The curriculum integrates striking, grappling, and cage work into a cohesive system, emphasizing smooth transitions, positional control, and finishing techniques. Perfect for building well-rounded fighters, this program emphasizes fundamental skills early on, progressing to advanced strategies and fight simulations.
Content
  • Calendar Week 01: OFF
  • Calendar Weeks 2–11: Foundations and Fundamental Integrations
  • Calendar Week 02: Stance & Movement for MMA
  • Calendar Week 03: Basic Striking Fundamentals
  • Calendar Week 04: Takedown Defense Essentials
  • Calendar Week 05: Guard Retention & Safe Stand-Ups
  • Calendar Week 06: Clinch Control Basics
  • Calendar Week 07: Intro to Ground-and-Pound from Guard
  • Calendar Week 08: Introduction to Cage Work
  • Calendar Week 09: Striking-to-Clinch Entries
  • Calendar Week 10: Half Guard Fundamentals
  • Calendar Week 11: Leg Kick Defense & Offensive Transitions
  • Calendar Weeks 12–21: Integrating Striking & Grappling Transitions
  • Calendar Week 12: Body Lock Takedowns from Clinch
  • Calendar Week 13: Advanced Guard Passing with Strikesv
  • Calendar Week 14: Boxing/Kicking Combos into Takedown Feints
  • Calendar Week 15: Cage Wrestling: Single-Leg Finishes
  • Calendar Week 16: Defending Ground-and-Pound
  • Calendar Week 17: Open Guard to Striking Opportunities
  • Calendar Week 18: Muay Thai Sweeps into Ground Dominance
  • Calendar Week 19: Back Control Transitions to Striking
  • Calendar Week 20: Head Movement for Takedown Timing
  • Calendar Week 21: Striking Entries into Cage-Assisted Takedowns
  • Calendar Weeks 22–32: Pressure Fighting & Positional Control
  • Calendar Week 22: High Mount to Back Take with Striking
  • Calendar Week 23: Defensive Boxing into Clinch Control
  • Calendar Week 24: Leg Attacks to Cage Pressure
  • Calendar Week 25: Arm Drag Entries with Striking Integration
  • Calendar Week 26: Guard Passing to Ground-and-Pound
  • Calendar Week 27: Striking-to-Sprawl-and-Brawl Transitions
  • Calendar Week 28: Knees in Clinch-to-Breakaway Sequences
  • Calendar Week 29: Overhand Punch to Takedown Entry
  • Calendar Week 30: North-South Control & Cage Utilization
  • Week 31: OFF
  • Calendar Week 32: Side Control to Crucifix Finish
  • Calendar Weeks 33–42: Detailed Positional Work, Cage Defense, and Submissions
  • Calendar Week 33: Cage Defense: Escaping from the Wall
  • Calendar Week 34: Ground-and-Pound from Half Guard
  • Calendar Week 35: Knee-on-Belly Striking Opportunities
  • Calendar Week 36: Clinch Trips & Immediate Striking
  • Calendar Week 37: Snap Down, Cage Pressure, and Ground Domination
  • Calendar Week 38: Reactive Striking from Takedown Defense
  • Calendar Week 39: Leg Kick Counters into Combinations
  • Calendar Week 40: Arm Triangle Entries from Clinch
  • Calendar Week 41: Back Mount Escapes & Reversals
  • Calendar Week 42: Winning Neutral Scrambles
  • Calendar Weeks 43–52: Comprehensive Integration, Cage Work, and Finishing Skills
  • Calendar Week 43: Comprehensive Fight Simulations
  • Calendar Week 44: Advanced Cage Wrestling & Control
  • Calendar Week 45: Ground Escapes Under Striking Pressure
  • Calendar Week 46: Offense from Guard and Half Guard
  • Calendar Week 47: Advanced Ground-and-Pound Strategies
  • Calendar Week 48: Open Guard & Countering Kicks
  • Calendar Week 49: Front Headlock Series for Control & Striking
  • Calendar Week 50: (Attack Perspective) Permit Stand ups against the Cage
  • Calendar Week 51: (Defense Perspective) Escaping Cage Pressure
  • Week 52: OFF
  • Week 01: OFF
  • Calendar Week 02: High-Level Transitions & Finishing Sequences
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed