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The rural schools Cambodia in the middle of open fields with dirt roads, no electricity or toilets are not an ideal learning environment. There is no other equipment but blackboard and chalk in the classrooms. Often there are not enough desks and benches for children to sit. The education is free and universal, yet each child has to have a uniform and school supplies to be able to attend. One realizes that education is a prized possession when one sees most children walking 3 km (about 2 miles) in each direction on an empty stomach. The children are tiny in stature and often look three years younger than they are. The school classrooms are crowded with three children to a desk and 50 children to a class.
Being in the crowded classroom in the midst of the heat, one feels truly stifled. Yet the attention of the students and their thirst for knowledge is astounding.
The children attend either a morning or afternoon sessions with the same teacher doing a double shift for the meager pay of less than $120 a month.
Cambodian Child's Dream is currently working in 4 village schools supplying school books and stationary as well as sponsoring 350 poor children. We provide Full Time English Teachers and supplement the income of the government Khmer Teachers. We have built libraries, kitchens, toilets blocks, playgrounds, sports fields, vegetable gardens, water wells, and Tippy Taps. We regularly bring in volunteers to teach English and provide new ideas and teacher training. We organize mobile school Dental clinics and volunteer Nursing Missions.
It costs $25 for a "starter kit" to provide a child with a school uniform, shoes, books, stationery, and toothbrush and toothpaste. An additional $10 per month will help provide breakfast for the child.
A blast furnace at a German steel mill suffered "massive damage" following a cyber attack on the plant's network, says a report.
Details of the incident emerged in the annual report of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
It said attackers used booby-trapped emails to steal logins that gave them access to the mill's control systems.
This led to parts of the plant failing and meant a blast furnace could not be shut down as normal.
The unscheduled shutdown of the furnace caused the damage, said the report.
In its report, BSI said the attackers were very skilled and used both targeted emails and social engineering techniques to infiltrate the plant. In particular, said BSI, the attackers used a "spear phishing" campaign aimed at particular individuals in the company to trick people into opening messages that sought and grabbed login names and passwords.
The phishing helped the hackers extract information they used to gain access to the plant's office network and then its production systems.
Once inside the steel mill's network, the "technical capabilities" of the attackers were evident, said the BSI report, as they showed familiarity with both conventional IT security systems but also the specialised software used to oversee and administer the plant.
BSI did not name the company operating the plant nor when the attack took place. In addition, it said it did not know who was behind the attack nor what motivated it.
The attack is one of only a few on industrial systems known to have caused damage. The most widely known example of such an attack involved the Stuxnet worm which damaged centrifuges being used by Iran in its nuclear enrichment programme.
Benjamin Sonntag, a software developer and digital rights activist, told Reuters: "We do not expect a nuclear power plant or steel plant to be connected to the internet.
"To be computerised, but to be connected to the internet and to be hackable - that is quite unexpected," he said.
Since 2002, the Eye Clinic has provided free treatment to children with eye problems. In addition to the 200 treatments each month, over 30 surgeries are also performed.
Eye care in Cambodia
Most people in Cambodia are not aware that most blindness is preventable, or that eye health care is available. The main causes of blindness in Cambodia are cataracts, uncorrected refractive error, glaucoma and corneal scarring. One of the major barriers to eye health care in Cambodia is the cost, which ranges from US$150-$500 in a private clinic, and US$20-$80 in a public hospital.
Free eye treatment
Our Eye Clinic treats a wide range of conditions including cataracts, conjunctivitis, refractive error, blunt eye trauma and penetrating corneal injury. Currently, Angkor Hospital for Children is able to provide free eyeglasses to children when required. In addition to consultations and treatments, the Operating Theater is used for more serious cases.
Treating eye cancer
Prior to 2013, one of the biggest gaps in AHC’s comprehensive care was not being able to treat cancer. For children with retinoblastoma, a rapid growing tumor of the eye, the only option available to them was to receive palliative care. In the developed world, if the tumor is contained within the eye – whether in one eye or in both – cure rates for retinoblastoma exceed more than 95 percent.
Saddened by seeing so many children with retinoblastoma, AHC set out to learn how to treat these children. Through mentorship from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the USA and the National University of Singapore, AHC was able to take its first step into cancer care and is now able to provide comprehensive treatment for children with eye cancer.
Community outreach training program
In addition to providing in-hospital care, the team services many schools and orphanages throughout Siem Reap province. The team makes visits to treat patients, but also to also teach administrators how to provide proper screenings. Before they visit a school, three members of the school’s teaching staff are required to attend a two-daytraining program where they learn basic information on anatomy, refraction, and testing for visual acuity.
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Randy Gregory can rush the passer from any stance. (USATSI)
NFL scouts were the ones celebrating the 2014 Holiday Bowl as the game pitting traditional powerhouses Southern California and Nebraska featured numerous prospects, including juniors Leonard Williams and Randy Gregory, the top two players on my personal Big Board.
Though Williams and Gregory are each listed as defensive ends by their respective clubs, the juniors couldn't be much different in terms of size and playing style. Their unique talents were on full display as the Trojans held on for the 45-42 victory.
The 6-foot-5, 290 pound Williams is big enough to slide inside to defensive tackle. His quickness and an effective swim move there make him virtually impossible for interior linemen at the collegiate level to handle him one-on-one. The Daytona Beach, Fla. native has been a dominant performer for the Trojans throughout his career, earning the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in 2012 and improving his production the past two seasons. Williams has been my top-rated NFL prospect since October.
Gregory, too, could see action at multiple positions in the NFL but it could be at defensive end and outside linebacker. The 6-foot-6, 240 pound JUCO transfer (Arizona Western Community College) sports a chiseled upper body but his thin legs leave him reliant on his agility when defending the run. Gregory has a terrific first-step, changes directions fluidly and has the balance and coordination to recognize and defeat cut blocks. While not nearly as powerful as Williams, Gregory has an aggressive initial pop to disengage from blockers and shows plenty of strength to pull ball-carriers to the ground.
Unlike many of this year's talented edge rushers, Gregory is well-versed as a 4-3 defensive end and as a stand-up edge rusher. Gregory frequently rushed out of the two-point stance Saturday night, alternately attacking from the left or right side.
Casual fans watching the Holiday Bowl may not have noticed Williams and Gregory on each snap. This shouldn't be taken as a sign that either is overrated but instead as a testament to the opposing coaching staff frequently running (or passing) away from the star defenders. The Trojans were especially effective in limiting Gregory's effectiveness.
Most of Southern Cal quarterback Cody Kessler's passes were quick-hitters that didn't require his offensive line to contain Gregory for long. The Huskers attempted to trick Williams with misdirection, occasionally using star running back Ameer Abdullah as a decoy.
Williams' powerful hands and agility gave Nebraska's offensive line fits all game long. The Huskers resorted to double and even triple-team blocking of Williams, at times. Williams, however, was his own worst enemy on occasion, drawing personal fouls on consecutive snaps in the first quarter.
With the Huskers driving and attempting to break a 10-10 tie, Williams drew a silly roughing the passer penalty following a 2nd and 3 incompletion from Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong, Jr. Williams had slipped past his opponent to latch onto Armstrong just as he released the ball. Rather than ease up, Williams flung the 6-foot-1, 220 pound quarterback to the ground, giving the Huskers a first and goal from the nine-yard line.
Perhaps motivated to atone for his mistake, Williams was even quicker through the line on the next snap, snatching and tossing Armstrong to the ground in a fluid motion that demonstrated the raw power and athleticism that has earned the Trojans star the top spot on my personal Big Board. Williams' 10-yard sack was erased, however, when he was called for an unsportsmanlike penalty for taunting the Nebraska sideline following the big play.
Williams was called to the sideline by the Southern Cal coaching staff on the next snap. Perhaps not surprisingly, Armstrong took full advantage with a touchdown pass toDe'Mornay Pierson-El to give the Huskers a 17-10 lead.
Williams nearly had a second sack while protecting the goal line in the third quarter, splitting through the right side of Nebraska's offensive line to hit Armstrong high, nearly decapitating the Huskers' quarterback. Armstrong slid under Williams grasp but was dragged down by linebacker Anthony Sarao.
As he's done throughout his stellar career for the Trojans, Williams was in on multiple tackles in this contest. He slides down the line well and pursues downfield.
Gregory exploded onto the scene a year ago, registering 66 tackles, including 19 tackles for loss and a Big Ten-leading 10.5 sacks. He struggled to match that production this year with nagging injuries and extra attention from blockers limiting him. Gregory missed the second game of the year (McNeese State) after undergoing a knee scope and the final regular season contest (Iowa) due to head and ankle injuries. Despite this, Gregory recorded another 50 tackles, including 10 tackles for loss and seven sacks, along with two blocked kicks.
The injuries that kept Gregory sidelined against Iowa also robbed him of practices leading up to the Holiday Bowl. He was disruptive early in the game but appeared to tire as the Trojans used their massive offensive line to wear down the Huskers.
NFL teams might be similarly effective in tiring out the dynamic but slim edge rusher with a powerful running game. To do so, they likely will have to game-plan to slow him down as Steve Sarkisian and the Trojans did - that is precisely why the junior is likely to earn a top five selection next April should he elect to leave early.
Josh Gordon isn’t the only high-profile player in trouble with the Browns.
Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel has been fined by the team for being late for treatment on his injured hamstring, Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
That news was broken just hours after the Browns announced that Gordon is suspended for the regular-season finale for missing today’s walk-through practice. Manziel is on injured reserve and was not expected at the walk-through, but the report that he didn’t show up on time for treatment is concerning.
Manziel’s tardiness today comes just days after he vowed to take his work more seriously. Apparently taking work seriously doesn’t include showing up to work on time.
So now the Browns, at the end of a season that showed some promise, are ending the season on a low note: Their best offensive playmaker is such a troublemaker that his future with the team is in question, and their franchise quarterback doesn’t show up to work on time.
Greg Jackson, the single most successful trainer in the multi-billion-dollar sport of professional mixed martial arts fighting, works out of a musty old gym in Albuquerque, New Mexico, not far from the base of the Sandia Mountains. On a recent morning, the 38-year-old Jackson, who has the cauliflowered ears and bulbous nose of a career fighter, watched two of his students square off inside the chain-link walls of a blood-splattered ring called the Octagon.
One of them was Jon Jones, the light heavyweight champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the premier MMA league. In four weeks, Jones would be defending his title against Rashad Evans, an expert fighter and his former training partner. To prepare him, Jackson had set up a sparring session with Shawn "The Savage" Jordan, a heavyset fighter from Baton Rouge.
Jones and Jordan met in the middle of the ring. Jordan threw first. Jones backpedaled and protected his face with his forearms.
"Look for that space, Jones!" Jackson hollered. "You. Do. Not let him close those angles on you." Jordan threw a flurry of blows. To me, the exchange appeared disorganized, nonsensical—a blur of flesh, sinew and the red flash of Jordan's mouth guard.
To Jackson, it was a logical sequence, one with only one possible effective response. "Jones," he said, "move inside." The fighter seemed to hesitate. If he moved within range of Jordan's fists, he risked catching a glove square in the face.
"Go on," Jackson said.
Jones ducked under one fist and whipped his right leg out in a short arc. The kick missed. Jordan threw again. This time Jones dropped down, flicked his head to the side, and, leaping off one foot, launched a flying jab followed by a knee to Jordan's midsection, which landed with a wet whoompf. Jordan groaned and crumpled onto the mat.
"Goddamn, Jones!" Jackson yelled. "Exactly correct."
Producing a notepad from his back pocket, Jackson sketched a spiderweb of circles and lines. It was a game tree, he explained—a graph game theoristsuse to analyze a sequence of decisions. In a traditional game tree, each circle, or node, represents the point at which a decision can be made. Each line, or edge, represents the decision itself. Game trees eventually end in a terminal node—either a tie or a win for one of the players. This game tree, Jackson told me, showed the exchange between Jones and Jordan from Jones's perspective.
The Breakdown
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Jon Jones (in red) makes a series of moves in his light heavyweight championship match against Rashad Evans. FightMetric data showed that Jones dominated Evans in almost every aspect of the fight.
At the start, the two men stood a few feet apart. Jackson drew a circle. The node had three edges, or moves that Jackson was training Jones to use. He could execute a leg kick, or a punch, or he could shoot for a takedown (attempt to grab Jordan by the backs of his legs and drive him into the ground). But the initial node was not "optimal," he said, because it allowed Jordan to swing freely with both fists. Although it seemed counterintuitive, the fast track to what Jackson calls the "damage" node (in this case, Jones's advantageous position following his hard knee) was to move in close, where Jordan would not be able to fully wind up. Another circle, representing Jones's inside position, and a series of edges, representing his potential decisions from there, appeared on the notepad.
"From inside," Jackson said, "he can do a knee, he can do an uppercut, he can do elbows. He could have done anything there, and done it effectively."
Since 1992, when he opened his first gym, Jackson has been using math to inform his training techniques. Unlike other MMA coaches, he continually collects data while watching live bouts, logs old fight videos to determine which moves work and when, and fills notebooks with game trees to determine the optimal nodes for various situations in a match. "I've always seen the ring like a lab," he says. "I've tried to think rigorously, logically."
"I've always seen the ring like a lab," Jackson says. "I try to think logically."Jackson's attempts to impose some measure of order on the primal, violent world of MMA mirror a larger movement within the sport. Science may not be civilizing cage fighting, but it is refining it. Specialty firms compile detailed statistics on matches. MMA pros appear on ESPN rigged head to toe with sensors and monitors that measure their striking power and speed. Academics are writing peer-reviewed articles on subjects such as the physiology of top fighters and the role that fear plays in the Octagon. And now fighters, most of them trained by Jackson, are beginning to use this data and analysis to become ever more brutally effective in the ring.
Total Beatdown
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The very first UFC event took place before a crowd of about 7,800 in a Denver auditorium in 1993. It was an odd spectacle. Karate masters clashed with boxers. Kickboxers dueled with sumo wrestlers. There were few real rules.
Over the next decade, in an effort to placate critics and state athletic commissions, the UFC introduced a comprehensive set of regulations that outlawed especially dangerous moves such as low blows and hair pulling. The campaign was largely successful, and by the mid-2000s, dozens of states had agreed to sanction MMA events.
TV networks, meanwhile, noticed the UFC's large following and began to broadcast highlights from the big bouts. A popular reality show called The Ultimate Fighter debuted, and a mixed martial artist appeared for the first time on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Ticket prices kept increasing. So did the size of the sport's fan base.
Among the many die-hard UFC fans was Rami Genauer, a journalist based in Washington, D.C. Genauer had read Moneyball, Michael Lewis's best seller about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his statistics-driven approach to player evaluation. He dreamed of analyzing mixed martial arts in the same way.
"There were no numbers," Genauer says. "You'd try to write something, and you'd come to the place where you'd put in the numbers to back up your assertions, and there was absolutely nothing."
In 2007 Genauer obtained a video of a recent UFC event, and using the slow-motion function on his TiVo, he broke each fight down by the number of strikes attempted, the volume of strikes landed, the type of strike (power leg versus leg jab, for instance) and the finishing move (rear naked choke versus guillotine, and so on). The process took hours, but the end result was something completely new to the sport: a comprehensive data set.
Genauer titled his data-collection project FightMetric and created a website to house the information. Some UFC fans registered their disapproval on Web forums. "'We don't need math with our fighting,' people would say. I disagreed," Genauer says.
Jones v. Evans
In 2008 he managed to persuade the UFC to use FightMetric data from past matches to support a televised event in Minneapolis. "The idea was that this would be good for the producers, who could use the numbers to illustrate the story," he says. "It'd also be good for the broadcaster—they'd have ammunition, something to rely on just like they do in other sports."
Officials liked having Genauer's fight data, and when the UFC began spiffing up its broadcasts with more graphics and statistics—part of an effort to make MMA seem like a real sport instead of a series of cage brawls—it hired FightMetric as its statistics provider. Genauer quit his job and opened an office in D.C.
Today FightMetric has five full-time staffers and a rotating cast of 15 specialists who collect a large data set for each fight using a video feed, proprietary software and a video-game controller with which they can record every type of strike. Among the statistics they track: each fighter's number and type of strikes, number of significant strikes (defined as all strikes landed from a distance, as well as power strikes landed from close range) and the accuracy and location of kicks and punches.
The FightMetric team collects the strike and location statistics in real time. The UFC uses some of the data for graphics during broadcasts and on its website. FightMetric goes into even greater detail on its own website, presenting statistics over outlines of a human body. Colored lines indicate the accuracy of each type of strike, and boxes show which ground move, whether arm bar, kimura lock or triangle choke, each fighter used to try to induce a submission. The analysis is strangely disconnected from the violence of the Octagon—a savage fight broken down into simple, neat figures.
Greg Jackson
Esther Lin
Jackson's fighters have won 80 percent of their matches.
As the available body of data from FightMetric (and its main competitor, CompuStrike) grows, Genauer and others are attempting to analyze it in new ways. Already Genauer and his colleagues have identified some clear trends in MMA matches. For instance, the number of fights that end in decisions, especially at the lower weight classes, has risen from a third in 2007 to half today. That's a significant change from the wilder early days of the UFC, when fighters swung crazily and the vast majority of bouts ended in knockouts. It points to increasing skill levels among UFC fighters (knockouts usually happen when one fighter is obviously superior to the other), a factor that could affect fighters' styles and training methods. A lighter-weight fighter, expecting now to go the distance in his next fight, might accordingly develop his aerobic threshold (so he can wear out bigger opponents) rather than his ability to throw first-round knockout blows.
Earlier this year, John Ruggiero and Trevor Collier, economists at the University of Dayton, and Andrew L. Johnson, an engineering professor at Texas A&M, released a study called "Aggression in Mixed Martial Arts: An Analysis of the Likelihood of Winning a Decision." With data from FightMetric, the researchers estimated the probability of winning based on fighter characteristics like height and age. From a sample of 946 matches, they measured dozens of variables, including blows attempted versus blows landed, stand-ups, knockdowns and slams. Next they ran that data through a binary response model (a kind of algorithm) to determine which characteristics or approaches most affected a fighter's chances.
Some of the study's conclusions were surprising. For example, in fights that end in decisions, the number of strikes thrown appears to be more important than the number of strikes landed. This may have something to do with the vantage point of the judges, who can't always see the fighters clearly, and so occasionally in error mark a thrown strike as a landed one. Or it may be that a high number of thrown punches simply contributes to the appearance of dominance. Either way, the study is something a fighter can use: The more punches you throw, the more fights you'll win.
Researchers studied matches to determine which variables most affected a fighter's chances of winning.Genauer says he is constantly working to improve both the hardware and software used to collect fight data. As collection methods improve, the data will become richer, analysis will become more granular and the results more useful. That's been the case in other sports such as baseball, which have changed as statistical analysis of in-game strategies has become more sophisticated (as Moneyball first highlighted). Stats have suggested, for example, that sacrifice bunting is not as useful as previously thought, leading many teams to attempt it less frequently. In MMA, trainers might find demonstrable proof that certain moves, like sidekicks or flying punches, are less effective than others, like knees or arm triangles. They might see the consistent success of a shoulder lock or the repeated triumph of the arm bar. They might rely on that data to engineer a better approach to MMA fighting—one, as FightMetric's website advertises, "rooted in data and demonstrated effectiveness rather than in gut feelings and bandwagon jumping."
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"Data and demonstrated effectiveness" is something that Greg Jackson has stressed for years. Unlike other MMA coaches, Jackson holds no belt in any martial art and has no allegiance to any guru. In fact, he had hardly any formal training at all. He opened his first gym at the age of 17. In the absence of a particular fighting style, he experimented with practically all of them: aikido, karate, Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, kickboxing, straight-up boxing. "All I was doing was looking for empirical evidence," he says. "I'd form a hypothesis and I'd try it out in a fight. If it didn't work I'd get rid of it, and if it did I kept it. It was science at its purest. It was driven by need."
Jackson would have two evenly matched fighters spar 10, 15, even 20 times in a row. Waiting nearby, notepad in hand, he would assiduously track which moves worked in the greatest number of situations. Unlike most trainers, he held no sentimental attachment to any specific moves. If he found that a flying sidekick didn't consistently do enough damage, he'd stop teaching it.
Battle Lines
Daniel Schumpert and Jason Briney; via FightMetric
How FightMetric breaks down the strike stats from the UFC light heavyweight title match.
By the early '90s Jackson had incorporated his results into his own homegrown martial art, which he dubbed Gaidojutsu—"way of the street," roughly, in Japanese. Gaidojutsu combined rudimentary striking with grappling and wrestling. At the time, it was rare to blend fighting styles—most fighters trained in a single discipline. But Jackson's students relished the chance to play mix-and-match, and his stable of trainees grew. A few of them persuaded him to let them compete in bare-knuckle tournaments, where they dominated their undisciplined opponents. By the time the UFC came around, Jackson says, he was completely addicted to winning competitions.
But he knew the UFC would be a far cry from the bare-knuckle bouts. He'd need to further refine his methods. One person he relied on for help was Jim Dudley, a close friend and mentor who also happened to be a mathematics lecturer at the University of New Mexico. Dudley gave him private math lessons in the desert, giving him assignments from books on subjects such as discrete mathematics and discussing how he might apply math in an MMA match.
"My first memory is Greg asking me about fractals," Dudley says. "Then it was game theory. I had no idea at first that all of this pertained to fighting. When he finally told me, I thought, 'OK, that's odd.' But then again, I knew [math] could be applied to very surprising topics. It made sense that Greg would be finding these interesting patterns in fighting."
The patterns that Jackson found were sequences of moves and positions that most consistently led to success in the Octagon. "I saw these certain positions over and over again: the side-mount, for instance, or the full-mount," he says. "And I started thinking of them in terms of edges. Judging from the data, which positions offered the most opportunities? Which left the fighter in trouble? And which allowed him the quickest path to victory?"
What Jackson was developing was a new way of thinking about fighting, one informed by mathematical and logical frameworks rather than gut instinct. Crucial to that was constant data collection. Where other coaches might drift in and out of the gym, catching snippets of training rounds here or there, Jackson almost never leaves the apron of the Octagon. He is responsible for approximately 60 professional fighters, some champions and some up-and-comers, and every day he watches almost all of them spar for hours on end. When he is not watching training bouts or traveling with his team, he is clicking through clips of older matches on his iPhone, on the TV, on one of the scarred laptops that sit in his cluttered office alongside a photograph of Albert Einstein and one of his personal heroes, the famous logician Kurt Gödel. His desk spills over with handwritten logs of successful fights, hastily scrawled game trees of sparring sessions, points about form and function and technique.
All of these notes contain usable data. Analyzing his game trees shows him the best moves to make at different points in a match, while logs of his fighters' and their opponents' past matches help him predict how long an upcoming fight is likely to last, when in each round the opponent will strike and what moves he'll make. It's an advantage no other trainer yet has.
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In early April Jon Jones defended the light heavyweight belt against Rashad Evans. The fighters were once friends who trained together under Jackson, but they'd had a falling out. In the weeks before the bout, they spent plenty of time trash-talking each other in the media. The fight was a true grudge match, as the UFC billed it, and by the time Jones and Evans climbed into the Octagon at Philips Arena in Atlanta, anticipation (and the noise level) was at a peak.
The fight opened slow. The fighters danced around each other warily. Evans, shorter and stockier than Jones, snapped away with his jab. Jones slipped around him, throwing a mix of "superman" punches (a punch executed while leaping forward) and flying knees.
Near the end of the first round, Evans caught Jones with his foot, sending him off balance. The bell rang. Jackson was waiting for Jones in the corner, a red cap pulled over his shaved head. His gaze was intent. He knew Evans had a superb defense and fast hands, limiting Jones's options. He began constructing a game tree in his mind. In the first node, the two men were squared off against each other. Jones could punch away, but Evans would block most of the blows. He needed to move to another node, one with more edges.
One node appeared optimal: If Jones could manage to get in position to effectively neutralize both of Evans's hands, he might be able to land at least one big shot. Jackson shouted in Jones's ear. His student nodded.
Toward the end of the next round, Jones, heeding Jackson's advice, squared up against Evans and extended both hands, open-gloved. Evans matched him, and for a moment it looked as if the two men were about to play patty-cake. This was the node that Jackson was looking for. Evans was momentarily exposed. In dazzlingly quick succession, Jones threw a right elbow, then a left, then another right. Evans wobbled, and Jones surged forward with a knee and a left hook.
Kings of the Cage
Esther Lin
Greg Jackson gives a lesson to Jon Jones, the UFC light-heavyweight champion.
By the third round, Jones had his opponent on the defensive. Evans turned one way, and Jones was there. Turned another, and there he was again. In the fourth, Jones buried his knee in Evans's stomach, and the crowd, more than 15,000 strong, roared its approval.
At the end of the night, Jones was awarded a unanimous decision. He would keep his belt. But it was the work of the FightMetric data collectors, not the judges' decision, that revealed how truly dominant Jones had been. Their report showed that he'd landed 116 strikes, 105 of which were deemed significant. Evans, by comparison, landed only 49 strikes, 45 of them significant. Jones not only ran Evans ragged around the ring, but he also doubled his output, continually finding the node where he could throw the most blows.
A few days after the fight, I spoke to Jackson by phone. Already he was dissecting what had happened, picking out the things that Jones had done right to further hone his fight strategies. But he realizes that a time will come when other trainers, eager to gain any advantage they can, will begin to emulate his methods. Eventually more and more mixed martial artists will base their training and match plans on statistical probabilities instead of instinct and tradition, raising the quality of competition.
That means Jackson will have to work harder than ever to stay on top of the sport. But when I asked him how important winning is to him, he got quiet. "Never put a node for victory," he said finally. "That doesn't mean we don't want to win. I want my guys to be thinking about trying to get to the strongest position they can, with the most edges, over and over. Like any science, it's more about the process than it is the outcome."
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