Many will look – few will see: A sizable portion of any match just looks like a profitless tangle of limbs leading to nothing but confusion. I'm sure you've all had the of trying to explain the appeal of grappling to non grappler friends. When they watch a match it just looks to two aimlessly rolling about on the . Your job as an athlete and mine as a coach is never to WATCH the action, but always to INTERPRET it. You must yourself TO SEE OPPORTUNITY AND DANGER EARLIER THAN OTHERS DO – for this is the surest way to success in the sport. You can train this daily by watching two other athletes spar and trying to ask yourself what you would be doing in their respective . This trains your mind to ACTIVELY INTERPRET events rather than what most people do – which is passively watch for the outcome. The is not to FOLLOW the outcome – but to CHANGE the outcome; and the best way to train this is interpreting observation – a skill you can train every day – even when you are not training yourself.