Lachlan Giles believes Gordon Ryan’s dominance comes from stripping his game down to fundamentals and executing them with unmatched precision.
Here is what he had to say on the topic in a recent interview:
His game shifted as he became the best and quite clearly like dominant in his division.
Like, he sort of was like: “Well, I don’t need to do anything too fancy. I’m just going to stick to this because it works well and I’ve just got better timing and pressure and feel and sense for what other people are going to do to defend than they have on the other end.”
Giles explained that while most competitors believe success requires increasingly complex setups, Ryan shows the opposite – mastering the basics at such a high level that even predictable attacks become unstoppable:
I think if you’re clearly the best, then you can often get away with just doing – just don’t do anything that’s kind of out there at all.
Just do, like, the fundamentals really well.But there’s actually so much timing and skill, and this is not just like: “Oh, they’re doing basic stuff and everyone can do it.”
He contrasted this with the path required for less dominant athletes:
If you’re maybe not the most naturally talented, then trying to beat them with the exact same game is not going to be a solution.
You need something.
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