Strength From Within, Vol. 3: Fight IQ (General Admission)

Live Digital Event - 6 October 2026 - 8pm EST/5pm PST

READ. ACCESS. ADAPT.

That's what Fight IQ actually is.

Strength From Within Vol. 3 breaks it into its three parts - and brings in the people who study each one.

Fight IQ gets talked about constantly in combat sports. Almost nobody breaks down what sits underneath it.

You know the technique, but you don't see the opening until it's gone.

You get hit hard. There's suddenly too much to focus on. You start thinking instead of reacting. The thing you've done hundreds of times in training doesn't come out.

Or Plan A stops working, and you can't find Plan B fast enough.

Three sessions. Three parts of the problem.

01: READ. How you see and process what's happening in front of you.
02: ACCESS. How you reach it when the pressure is real.
03: ADAPT. How you find another answer while the fight is still moving.

Live Tuesday, 6 October - 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET
Full replay included with every ticket.

CONFIRMED GUESTS

DR. AAKASH SHAH (Performance Coach, drshah_neurovision) - 01: READ

Before you can make the right decision, you have to pick up the information it's built on.

Reading a fight isn't only tactical knowledge. It starts with the visual system - what you notice, what you miss, how quickly you process it, and whether you can keep tracking the information that matters while everything is moving.

Dr. Aakash Shah is a neuro-developmental and sports vision optometrist whose work focuses on the visual-cognitive systems behind athletic performance, including peripheral awareness, depth perception, reaction time, visual processing and decision-making. His work uses neurovisual and cognitive assessment and training to understand how athletes see, process and respond under pressure.

Dr. Shah is joining Vol. 3 to unpack what it actually means to "read" a fight - what your eyes and brain are doing before a decision ever gets made, and which visual-cognitive abilities can be trained.

RYAN SWEENEY (CEO, The Inner Game) - 02: ACCESS

What if you're not missing the skill - just the access to it?

In 1974, Tim Gallwey wrote down one formula: Performance = Potential − Interference.

Not potential plus effort. Potential minus interference.

The combination that's automatic on the pads and gone by round two didn't leave. Something got in front of it.

Ryan Sweeney is CEO of The Inner Game, the organization carrying Gallwey's work (six books and fifty years of knowledge and insight) into its next era.

Ryan is joining Vol. 3 to take that formula apart for the cage: what "too much to focus on" actually is, and how you get back to what you already own.

MIKE MOOR (@themindsetmike, The Unfair Advantage) - 03: ADAPT

You read the fight. You make a plan. What happens when the fight changes?

Fight IQ isn't only about knowing which technique to use. It's what you do after the plan stops working - when you're hurt, when you're tired, when your emotions start driving.

Can you stay present, recognize what's changed, and win the next exchange?

Mike Moor is a mindset coach to world champions across UFC, Bellator, IBJJF and Invicta. He's also a former D1 wrestler, a former FBI investigator and a certified crisis negotiator — three disciplines built on the same thing: reading a situation, being wrong, and adjusting while it's still unfolding.

Mike is joining Vol. 3 to unpack how fighters adapt in real time and why some find another answer while others get stuck.

SOUND FAMILIAR?

We asked fighters and martial artists what gets in the way of their Fight IQ.

49% said: I overthink it in the moment.
27% said: What I drill doesn't transfer.
17% said: I can't adapt mid-fight.

And when we asked what else gets in the way, we heard:

"There's too much to focus on."
"I lose my flow state every time I get hit hard enough. Then I start overthinking."
"Fear is the biggest factor."
"Ring comfort and experience."
"The pressure to perform."

Vol. 3 is built around those answers.

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THE LINE-UP

01: READ

Dr. Aakash Shah - Neuro-Developmental & Sports Vision Optometrist

What are you actually seeing when you read a fight?

• How fighters pick up and prioritize visual information in a live exchange
• What peripheral awareness, tracking, depth perception and dynamic vision contribute to reading an opponent
• Why seeing a cue and processing it in time are two different things
• How visual-cognitive skills can be assessed and trained for faster decisions under pressure

02: ACCESS

Ryan Sweeney — CEO, The Inner Game

Why do I start overthinking in the moment?

• What happens when there suddenly feels like there's too much to focus on
• Why skills that feel automatic in training can disappear when the pressure rises
• What happens to attention when you get hit, get tired or start doubting yourself
• How consciously controlling a movement can interfere with something you already know how to do

03: ADAPT

Mike Moor — @themindsetmike, The Unfair Advantage

What happens when Plan A stops working?

• Why some fighters recognize change quickly while others get stuck
• How fighters re-organize when the original read is wrong
• What fatigue, fear and uncertainty do to the options you can see
• How experience changes your ability to find another answer while the fight is still happening

PLUS: THE FULL PANEL + LIVE Q&A

After the individual sessions, all three guests come together for a moderated conversation on how reading the fight, accessing what you've trained and adapting when conditions change connect inside a real fight.

Then we open the floor to you.

Bring your questions and ask the speakers live.

WHO THIS IS FOR

• You feel like you see openings, cues or changes a beat too late
• You overthink when the exchange gets chaotic
• What you drill doesn't always show up when you need it
• Getting hit, getting tired or feeling pressure changes the way you fight
• You struggle to adjust once the game plan stops working
• You're a coach who wants better language for developing perception and decision-making in your athletes

WHAT YOU GET

• Live access to all three expert sessions on 6 October
• The full moderated panel discussion
• Live audience Q&A
• Full replay access after the event
• Speaker materials and resources, where available
• Access from anywhere in the world

$29.99 USD. One ticket. Live access plus permanent replay.