MonoCore-AMAYL

MOCA/MOCAMAYL is the AMAYL variant of the MonoCore family. As such it is an extremely flexible and quite desirable schedule - the most flexible one that the line-up has to offer. A 4.5h core is most common, followed by an arbitrary number of naps, held at whatever time is desired. As with all AMAYL schedules, it requires a lot of responsibility: Napping too little can throw off the schedule relatively easily.

TST	4h50 - 6h10
Cores	1
Naps	AMAYL (1-5) @ 5-25min
Difficulty	3-4 / 5
RSR Difficulty	3 / 5
Flex-potential	Natural

Relationship to MX

MX, while similarly flexible, contains significantly more sleep on average, and only allows one nap. The variant MX-Mod-More-Naps is much closer to MOCA, but still tends towards much more TST and contains several of the difficulties of AMAYL schedules.

For a flexible schedule with less adaptation time, MX should be considered.

Adaptation

As with all flexible reducing schedules, cold-turkey adaptation ("direct" adaptation) is not possible. Instead, a schedule like M3e must be adapted to fully, after which a special flexing adaptation is necessary. Naps must be slowly loosened as usual and their flexibility range increased over time; once a nap's flexibility range is longer than about 2h, another nap could theoretically be placed inside. For best results, as many naps as possible should become flexible before beginning to add or remove ones.
Inexperienced sleepers should not attempt this, especially not without consultation. It is very easy to make a mistake that kicks you out of the entire schedule if you start flexing too early or go too fast. Knowing your limits through experience is extremely advantageous - otherwise: go extremely slowly, and wait until the base schedule has been stable for a few weeks to make getting kicked out of it less likely.

Difficulty

(See AMAYL)

MOCA is somewhat difficult to adapt to, easy to destabilize through sleep greed, yet also easy to keep stable with good care & responsibility.