Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone. Today, we got an interesting episode. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you watch the UFC at the White House,
Speaker 1: the Freedom to fifty, but it made me think when
Speaker 1: we saw Cyril Gone fight, and I wanted to examine
Speaker 1: and extract some of his principles that translate directly to
Speaker 1: special ops. So Sue Ragon. He's about six y five
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty seven pounds, and he moves really
Speaker 1: fast for a big guy like that, and his success
Speaker 1: is not about knockout power, but on something far more valuable,
Speaker 1: especially in what they call dynamic environments right elite spatial
Speaker 1: intelligence and real time pattern recognition. Saragon did not grow
Speaker 1: up dreaming of becoming a UFC champion. He's actually former
Speaker 1: furniture salesman with a background in football and basketball. He
Speaker 1: discovered mood tie in his mid twenties and then rapidly
Speaker 1: ascended to kickboxing ranks. After transitioning to MMA. In twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: he compiled an extraordinary run, capturing the UFC Interim Heavyweight
Speaker 1: Championship with a technical knockout against Derek Lewis. It makes
Speaker 1: Gone remarkable in his approach in a heavyweight division defined
Speaker 1: by one punch power Gon operates as a pure points striker.
Speaker 1: He maintained superior distance. You kind of think of Floyd
Speaker 1: maywhether he uses oblique kicks to disrupt opponent's structure, switches
Speaker 1: stances fluidly, and reads the cage like a chessboard. Rather
Speaker 1: than engaging in brawls, he systematically breaks opponents down through
Speaker 1: superior positioning and anticipation. This is not mere athletic talent.
Speaker 1: It is highly developed what do we call spatial intelligence,
Speaker 1: which is the ability to perceive, process, and predict movement
Speaker 1: across an entire operational environment. Think of soccer players too,
Speaker 1: which we might come back to you later. In special ops,
Speaker 1: the difference between success and failure often comes down to
Speaker 1: who reads the environment faster, Just like soccer, Just like Gone.
Speaker 1: God demonstrates this every time he fights. He does not
Speaker 1: fixate on the opponent's hands or the immediate threat said.
Speaker 1: He maintains a broad external focus, constantly scanning foot positioning,
Speaker 1: weight distribution, shoulder alignment. This mirror is a cognitive demand's
Speaker 1: place on Special Forces teams. In urban combat or hostage
Speaker 1: rescue scenarios, operators must simultaneously track multiple threats, friendly elements,
Speaker 1: environmental variables, and potential escape routes. Elite performers develop an
Speaker 1: almost subconscious ability to predict where the next thread or
Speaker 1: opportunity will emerge. Psychologically, this scale arrests and several pillars
Speaker 1: exceptional working memory, cognitive flexibility, and rapid pattern recognition. Gon's
Speaker 1: background and team sports likely gave him an early foundation
Speaker 1: in reading fluid multiplayer environments. So does the UTA loop
Speaker 1: player role here. Yeah, observe, orient the side, and act,
Speaker 1: and this is essential to understanding Gon's effectiveness in the cage.
Speaker 1: Gon compresses this loop to fractions of a second. He
Speaker 1: observes subtle cues orients them against his mental database of
Speaker 1: opponent tendencies, decides on the optimal counter, and acts before
Speaker 1: his opponent can adjust. Special forces operators rely on the
Speaker 1: same accelerated decision making cycle when a team is clearing
Speaker 1: a building or conducting a raid. Explicit communication is often
Speaker 1: impossible or too slow, so success depends on shared mental models,
Speaker 1: the ability of team members to anticipate each other's actions
Speaker 1: without speaking. Gon exhibits a solo version of this when
Speaker 1: he manipulates distance and forces. You don't need to be
Speaker 1: a professional fighter to develop the skills operators and tactical
Speaker 1: professionals can train spatial intelligence to deliver practice. Analytical viewing
Speaker 1: of high level combat sports Believe it or Not as
Speaker 1: one accessible method, Watch Gon's fights while focusing not on
Speaker 1: the strikes, on his footwork, cage control, and how he
Speaker 1: creates space. Watch basketball and soccer matches. Watch how players
Speaker 1: create space. Practical training drills can include small sided games
Speaker 1: or reactive agility exercises to force rapid decision making under fatigue,
Speaker 1: scenario based training that emphasizes reading multiple variables simultaneously, mental
Speaker 1: rehearsal of fluid, unstructured environments to strengthen pattern recognition. These
Speaker 1: methods all build the same cognitive architecture that allows superior
Speaker 1: forces to outmaneuver larger, more powerful ones. God's career also
Speaker 1: highlights an important truth. When your primary advantage is neutralized,
Speaker 1: adaptability becomes a decisive factor. His losses to Francis Nagano
Speaker 1: and John Jones demonstrated what happens when an opponent forces
Speaker 1: the fight into domain where your strengths are minimalized, and
Speaker 1: credit to them. The ability to pivot, maintain composure, and
Speaker 1: activate secondary capabilities under pressure as a hallmark of elite
Speaker 1: operators The deeper lesson is this, folks, Superior movement, spatial awareness,
Speaker 1: and real time decision making often prove more valuable than
Speaker 1: just raw power. Whether in the cage or on the battlefield,
Speaker 1: the operator who best reads the environment and anticipates the
Speaker 1: next devidenment hold the initiative.