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Fight IQ & Strategy

Range selection, game plan construction, and reading what an opponent gives you instead of running a script regardless.

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Building a Game Plan Around Your Strengths

A game plan is not a list of techniques. It is a decision about where you want the fight to happen and how you get it there repeatedly.

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Mixed martial arts explained as one sport, not three stacked on top of each other.

An order of operations for building the three areas so they reinforce each other. Progress when the current stage survives light resistance from a partner, not when a set number of weeks has passed.

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