Combat sports changed your life, and now you want to change others’ lives? Become one of the few specialised combat sports coaches that knows how to build a wining path to their client. Because the only meaningful performance metric in combat is winning.
This advanced professional certification course gives you the niche skills to be able to optimise class structure and address personal challenges, considering the deeply interpersonal, intensely demanding, and high-risk nature of fight sports, which makes most of the general approaches unapplicable in the field.
- Research-backed knowledge that puts an end to opinionated debates over what makes clients progress
- A specialisation that makes you recognised as a field expert
- Combat sport-focused knowledge that is absent from sport related or general coaching courses
- Handover tools you can use immediately in your coaching practice
- Module-based purchase option to grow as your resources allow
You’ve mastered your own journey to the top, but now faces your biggest challenge yet: helping others succeed in ways you never had to.
You’re transitioning to combat sports, but your standard coaching playbook crumbles when fists start flying and now it needs a complete rewrite.
You know a lot about athletic performance, but dealing with people who get punched in the face for a living broke all the theories.
All wants to work with you.
Because you can advise any body type, learning style, personality composition, or training history.
You’re the first to ask.
Because you can recognise interpersonal dynamics, predict fight outcome and adjust the nuances to win.
You’re the expert to refer to.
Because you have a full overview of combative arts and can optimise the class structure to raise winners.
You are trusted by all.
Because you can establish safe practices, mitigate gender tension, and are culturally sensitive.
You’re fully booked.
Because you’re one of the very few on the market with specialised knowledge in coaching for winning.
You have a cool vibe around you.
Because you can address emotional turbulence, erase embarrassment, and know where to refer for further support.
| Features and benefits summary column |  General coach, trainer certificate |  Sport, exercise psychology qualification |  WIT Advanced Professional Certificate in Combat Sport Coaching |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combat relevancy | Low (unless art specific) | Low | High |
| Learning objectives | Understanding coaching/training frameworks, models, and baseline exercises | Gaining an overview of the human body, basic psychological principles, and sports practices | Obtaining knowledge in combat psychology, coaching for combat pressure, competition, and high stakes |
| Mental components coverage | Low | Medium | High |
| Physical components coverage | High | Medium | Low |
| Competition performance coverage | None | Low | High |
| Entry requirements | 18+ or foundational course or none | Set academic points DBS References Personal statement Interview for personal fit | 25+ 2+ years combat sport training history |
| Additional study requirements | English proficiency Digital confidence | Travel to site English proficiency Digital confidence | English proficiency Digital confidence |
| Course duration | 2 days -12 weeks | 1.5-4 years | 10 weeks or self-paced |
| Course fee | £50 - £2000 | £8000 - £25000 | £6673 or £785/module |
| Module based purchase | Rarely | Often | Yes |
| Alternative (free) enrollment | No | With scholarship | With research participation |
| Information source | General textbook | Mainstream academic | Cutting-edge academic |
| Handover materials and practicality | High | Medium | High |
| Mobile ready content | Often | Some | Yes |
| Interactive excercises | Rarely | Lot | Some |
| Certificate issuing | Upon completion | Upon pass grade on all modules | Upon pass grade on all modules |
| Physical certificate and holder | Rarely | For extra charge | Free |
| Accreditation | Often | Yes | In progress |
| Qualification provider right | Some | Yes | In progress |
| Career opportunities | Trainer, general coach | Sport coach, lifestyle consultant | Combat sport coach, specialised competition coach |
| Saturation of profession | Very high | High | Low |
Combat is complex and demanding, and contrary to the popular belief, it’s not the body that tires out first. That is why the WIT Combat Sport Coach certification program focuses on the psychological aspects of fight rather than body conditioning—top body condition is irrelevant if one is choked out within 20 seconds.
Because reflective capabilities develop in the early 20s, allowing one to see beyond their own context and grasp complex life dynamics needed to meaningfully help fighters.
Because the course teaches how to guide fighters towards winning, as opposed to teach how to fight, and so requires to already be familiar with the context of combat sports.
Module 1
Learn the most fundamental aspect of coaching: the impact you have on your trainees, and the conscious and unconscious ways you influence. You’ll see behind the myth of learning styles, understand how the concept of mindset oversimplified, and discover the significance of attribution styles.
Module 2
Learn how feedback impacts motivation and what are the most effective forms and methods to deliver even the most uncomfortable ones. You will receive clear guideline on how to praise, how to respond to mistakes, how to address mindset challenges and promote brain and body plasticity for growth.
Module 3
Take a detailed look at the specifics of combative arts, stemming from their strictly interpersonal and threat with harm nature, which are uncharacteristic of other sports. You’ll also learn how to evaluate the best fighter-art fit, and adjust improve results when the fit is less than ideal.
Module 4
Get to know the principles of creating class structures that support competition success systematically from its core components. You will gain insight into the impact and limitations of different drill and sparring styles on engraining techniques, and the myth about the length of time required to master an artform.
Module 5
Jump head first into the myth of normalcy and IQ, and gain an understanding of its definition as a statistically drawn mean average. You’ll also learn about core differences in learning and will gain practical skills in distinguishing between ego and complex outbursts with proper guidance on how to address them.
Module 6
Dig further into the nuances of optimising the preparation routine for your competition team. You’ll gain insight into the differences between competition bouts and regular sparring, and will learn to recognize the most common barriers to competition success to address the potential root causes.
Module 7
Take a transformative look at the gender/sex dynamics that have a huge impact on both class retention and individual progress. You will learn the difference between stereotypes and prejudices and receive clear guidance to take the edge of the conflict and optimise your class for gender/sex parity.
Module 8
Look into some latent but fundamental stress factors, including socioeconomic and psychological ones that impact your trainees chances. You’ll learn about the adaptive nature of stress, how to recognize the window of tolerance of your trainees and where to refer them if further support needed.
Module 9
Learn about the different abilities of different age groups, including the brain functions and motor skills that are available or not at a particular age. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics and myths behind ageism, and receive clear recommendations on how to work with different age groups.
Module 10
Take your training skills one step further with the most contemporary evidence-based conditioning routines. You will get to know periodised approaches that offer incremental loading strategies to keep training pressure under control and receive a template plans for BJJ, MMA, and Boxing.
WIT is a community of combative and academic professionals who have embarked on a journey to provide access to knowledge that provides a competitive edge. We are working in line with human-centred psychological approaches and run our own collaborative research project to continuously advance knowledge on close combat resilience and personalised preparation methods.
In a world where everyone can claim to be a fight coach, only a few can actually transform fighters into champions.
Why traditional coaching courses are failing combat sports professionals?
Because combat is not sport. There is no psychological similarity between running a marathon and being punched in the face. Different brain regions are involved, leading to different conditions and using different processing pathways.
The WIT advanced professional Combat Sport Coach certification course brings along cutting-edge knowledge to offer a combat sport-specific insight into how humans operate in a fight context and how they can be guided towards winning.
Aligning with how the brain learns and recalls physical knowledge to allow for the curriculum or training regimen to promote muscle memory and physical confidence development.
Movement systems like combative arts are founded on body alignment and movement principles, where identifying alignment issues is essential to maximise power output and reduce injury risk.
Social influences, personality differences, and cultural biases fundamentally shape a trainee’s progress and require cultural sensitivity to recognise and address them.
Combat experience is filled with terror and trauma, working with these experiences requires a deep understanding of the process involved and referral paths available.
WIT advanced professional Combat Sport Coach certification program framework
