Coach and fighter — two views, one fighter

Every tier in the Focus section can exist in two versions: the coach's and the fighter's own. You choose which one you are reading at the top of the pane. They are both real; neither overwrites the other.

For the Style, the coach's version is the observed one and the fighter's version is the self-image. A fighter who believes they are a counter-striker, drawn by their coach as a pressure fighter who never waits, has just learned something about themselves that no amount of sparring would have told them.

Blind spots

A blind spot is any cell where the two versions disagree. The app can show the two routes drawn over each other, with the disagreements marked, so the difference is a picture rather than a debate.

The goal is not for the fighter to accept the coach's version. It is for both to look at the same evidence — film, rounds, the coach's eye — and land on one picture they both believe. Alignment is the point at which the Style stops being contested.

Then, and only then

Once the Style is agreed, Strategy and Tactics become easy to discuss, because both people are now reasoning relative to the same base. 'You tend to stall the clinch' is a fact you both hold; 'against this wrestler, break instead' is a plan built on it.