For someone with a reputation for meticulous attention to detail, the questionable study habits of City Kickboxing sensei Eugene Bareman as a scholar come as a surprise.
"When I was at university, I was definitely a cramming type of student," Bareman tells Newshub, with a laugh. "I plan things out a lot better when it comes to this."
Bareman is referring to the portfolio of gameplans - the blueprints that he and his fellow trainers believe are the most effective path to victory - he's assembled in preparation for a busy upcoming campaign for his star pupils.
At Sunday's UFC Auckland, the head trainer will make the walk to the Octagon on three separate occasions, accompanying Kai Kara-France, Brad Riddell and finally Dan Hooker for the marquee act against American Paul Felder.
Not to mention Australian-based promotion Eternal's event on Friday, also in Auckland, where a handful of his fighters will also be in the action.
Then, in just a fortnight's time at UFC 248 in Las Vegas, there's Israel Adesanya's maiden world-title defence to scheme for.
Bareman's systematic filing of past and present gameplans comes into its own at times like this.
Rather than creating each from scratch, he'll pick and choose certain aspects from his vault of past performances and tweak them according to that particular fighter's next opponent, whose strength and weaknesses have already been under the microscope through hours of review of their previous fights.
"When you do this for so many years, you're able to reference back to different scenarios and gameplans, different fights where you put a specific strategy in place. You're able to pull that out and kind of recycle it, if you like.
"It also helps if you've been with the fighter for a long time, because aspects of the gameplan, he perhaps would've already been through already. You can extrapolate what you need and apply them, which is easier, because they already have familiarity with it.
"Sometimes, you're adding new stuff, but for the most part it's pulling out old stuff."
That approach has helped establish Bareman and City Kickboxing team as one of the pre-eminent gyms on the planet.
Already the headquarters of UFC champions Adesanya and Australian Alexander Volkanovski, the next cab off that rank is Hooker.
Sitting seventh in the lightweight division's official rankings, 'The Hangman' is right on the cusp of the title picture and faces his sternest challenge yet against sixth-ranked Felder on home soil this weekend.
'The Irish Dragon' (17-4) is a well-rounded, highly technical, aggressive and uncompromising combatant - a difficult puzzle to solve for anyone in the upper echelon of the UFC's most talented weight class.
While Bareman has some "very interesting stuff" that he's concocted for Felder, but is not willing to share in this article (for obvious reasons), he does identify a couple of key areas where he believes Hooker needs to shine to secure a win.
"We have to incentivise Paul to put pressure on. If we don't check that pressure, if we don't let him know that, he can just have his way and control the territory.
"And if he wants to control the territory, then he's going to have to fight for it and take damage. If we can let him know that, that's where the fight's going to be decided."
This type of match-up could be decided by inches and Hooker''s attention to detail may well prove the difference.
"Dan has to have all his T's crossed and his I's dotted," says Bareman. "He has to come into the night at 100 percent.
"Anything less is not going to be favourable for him. It's that type of fight.
"It's not the kind of fight where Dan can get away with performing at 80 percent and still pull off a win. If he does perform at 80 percent, he's not going to come away with the win.
"He has to come in with absolutely every aspect fine-tuned - mental, physical, everything."
The encouraging news for Kiwi fight fans is that's exactly what Bareman has seen in Hooker through fight camp so far.
Should Hooker emerge with his hand raised, not only does Bareman believe he'd be just a win shy of a title shot, It may also make him a potential injury replacement for champion Khabib Nurmagomedov's title defence against Tony Ferguson at UFC 249 in April.
"He starts moving into a category where you can't deny him. You'd have to give him a shot.
"How about a scenario where, after he beats Paul, Conor McGregor stays at welterweight, Tony can't fight - who are you going to call? The only other fight is going to be Dan Hooker.
"He's moving into that category, so he's so close. He's so close."
Right up until it's time for his fighter to make his or her way into battle - be it a cacophonous Spark Arena or a West Auckland recreational centre - Bareman is doing his utmost to ensure their plan of attack is top of mind.
But don't confuse that with cramming. For Bareman and his cohorts, a fight-plan is a constantly evolving beast that is never truly complete. Expect that to be no different this weekend.
"I like to use every single moment that we have, literally right up to just before we walk out.
"That's not the old cramming Eugene, that's all reiteration. We use every moment before the fight to aid in our success."
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