15 years watching content on RUclips and I can count on my hands the number of times I’ve immediately started a video over again from the beginning (save for memes, etc.) to soak in everything I just saw again. 6:30 I have tried experimenting with focused dreaming/attempting to lucid dream about CS in an attempt to achieve subconscious or unconscious training, and have gotten close only once. I found myself very immersed in a game, CT Nuke, but it was not like a dream in feeling. A mix of having agency in the visualization but also being an observer, I was considering radar info, made a flank outside from ramp and got a couple kills on the cross from red. It was very distinctly not just a dream, it felt like exactly what I wanted it to, a semi-immersive, semi-observant mental image of the game and the decision making process. It felt so significantly deeper than just imagining a given scenario, it was much more a meditative analytical process than anything else. It felt like only 15-20 seconds, and then I was shook “awake” by the excitement of realizing that the mental exercise I was trying really did just work, even if only in a small instance. I haven’t been able to maintain the focus to get my head into that same space again, but this video definitely has me excited to try it more. Ever since I was a young child I would sometimes work my brain as hard as possible to immerse myself in the games I played while going to sleep. I can picture being inside of a minecraft world and interacting however I see fit with detail an order of magnitude greater than I can visualize myself being in/interacting with my own home, lol. This video has me excited to experiment more with this mental practice in a more constructive way, and while by no means do I have strong expectations that it will elevate my game, it is possible. At the very least, it is undeniably a wonderful exercise in creativity and critical thinking, as well as mental focus and concentration discipline.
Ive been doing this subconsciously, you get so much more out of the game when you have a mental image of what you’re trying to accomplish. I fail the hardest when i don’t plan out or theorize.
Great video. Hopefully new players see it too. One more tip, to enhance your game sense. Play casual with music and very low sound (enough to hear shooting, but not steps). That way you force yourself to rely on radar for info and on experience with the game. Using your experience with combined with how many enemies are alive, you start to guess more actively on enemy positions. Since you can't rely on sound. Moreover you push yourself to the peeks for info with knife/ or prefire certain angles.
This is such a good video. Informative, illustrative, clear and to the point. Personally I have used mental imagery to help my performance. One way one can do it is this: you can take each moment you expect there to be some action and imagine a movie reel: each time is a movie scene. Specifically, you take each moment individually, one at a time and you imagine the start and the end of the scene. Imagine you are holding pillar as a CT in Ancient. They are pushing. You start your imaginary movie scene and you peek: you kill one fall back: now it ends. Now another scene starts when you feel comfortable again etc.
always been the biggest thing i preached. i got into r6 pro league and this was one of my biggest strengths. at some point i learnt lucid dreaming , almost every minute of my day was visualising and imagining scenarios/strategies/mechanics. its honestly crazy how you can improve mechanics without physical practice. im surprised more dont talk about this
This is a really interesting video! I know mental imagery is very important, but breaking it down really helped me learn it better! Time to try it out in game !!
great stuff like always but i want to specifically mention that your narration has gotten miles better than it was even just 2 months ago, the grind payin off brudda
Now i know what to tell My teammates when they ask how i do some of the sick stuff i do cause ive been doing this automatically for years without knowing it
always been the biggest thing i preached. i got into r6 pro league and this was one of my biggest strengths. at some point i learnt lucid dreaming , almost every minute of my day was visualising and imagining scenarios/strategies/mechanics. its honestly crazy how you can improve mechanics without physical practice. im surprised more dont talk about this
here it is, you are now starting to carve your niche here in the CS analysis youtube space. keep it up mannn
15 years watching content on RUclips and I can count on my hands the number of times I’ve immediately started a video over again from the beginning (save for memes, etc.) to soak in everything I just saw again. 6:30 I have tried experimenting with focused dreaming/attempting to lucid dream about CS in an attempt to achieve subconscious or unconscious training, and have gotten close only once. I found myself very immersed in a game, CT Nuke, but it was not like a dream in feeling. A mix of having agency in the visualization but also being an observer, I was considering radar info, made a flank outside from ramp and got a couple kills on the cross from red. It was very distinctly not just a dream, it felt like exactly what I wanted it to, a semi-immersive, semi-observant mental image of the game and the decision making process. It felt so significantly deeper than just imagining a given scenario, it was much more a meditative analytical process than anything else. It felt like only 15-20 seconds, and then I was shook “awake” by the excitement of realizing that the mental exercise I was trying really did just work, even if only in a small instance. I haven’t been able to maintain the focus to get my head into that same space again, but this video definitely has me excited to try it more. Ever since I was a young child I would sometimes work my brain as hard as possible to immerse myself in the games I played while going to sleep. I can picture being inside of a minecraft world and interacting however I see fit with detail an order of magnitude greater than I can visualize myself being in/interacting with my own home, lol. This video has me excited to experiment more with this mental practice in a more constructive way, and while by no means do I have strong expectations that it will elevate my game, it is possible. At the very least, it is undeniably a wonderful exercise in creativity and critical thinking, as well as mental focus and concentration discipline.
always such a slept on topic when it comes to esports
brilliant video !!
Ive been doing this subconsciously, you get so much more out of the game when you have a mental image of what you’re trying to accomplish. I fail the hardest when i don’t plan out or theorize.
Great video. Hopefully new players see it too. One more tip, to enhance your game sense.
Play casual with music and very low sound (enough to hear shooting, but not steps). That way you force yourself to rely on radar for info and on experience with the game. Using your experience with combined with how many enemies are alive, you start to guess more actively on enemy positions. Since you can't rely on sound. Moreover you push yourself to the peeks for info with knife/ or prefire certain angles.
This is such a good video. Informative, illustrative, clear and to the point.
Personally I have used mental imagery to help my performance. One way one can do it is this: you can take each moment you expect there to be some action and imagine a movie reel: each time is a movie scene. Specifically, you take each moment individually, one at a time and you imagine the start and the end of the scene.
Imagine you are holding pillar as a CT in Ancient. They are pushing. You start your imaginary movie scene and you peek: you kill one fall back: now it ends. Now another scene starts when you feel comfortable again etc.
always been the biggest thing i preached. i got into r6 pro league and this was one of my biggest strengths. at some point i learnt lucid dreaming , almost every minute of my day was visualising and imagining scenarios/strategies/mechanics. its honestly crazy how you can improve mechanics without physical practice. im surprised more dont talk about this
Amazing vid, and you used that goated karrigan clip from thunderpick hell yes! Great work as always!
This is a really interesting video! I know mental imagery is very important, but breaking it down really helped me learn it better! Time to try it out in game !!
this is something thats happened to me my whole life! when im falling asleep i can play the game in my head and imagine detailed scenarios
thats so fucking good. keep it up
great stuff like always but i want to specifically mention that your narration has gotten miles better than it was even just 2 months ago, the grind payin off brudda
sport deez nutz
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Now i know what to tell My teammates when they ask how i do some of the sick stuff i do cause ive been doing this automatically for years without knowing it
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cs players are a different breed of tryhard lol, nice vid
Just get good damn this is literally a synonym for "hopium"
aphantasia so
gg, rip
it doesnt matter much as your motor skills cannot improve with gamesense.
always been the biggest thing i preached. i got into r6 pro league and this was one of my biggest strengths. at some point i learnt lucid dreaming , almost every minute of my day was visualising and imagining scenarios/strategies/mechanics. its honestly crazy how you can improve mechanics without physical practice. im surprised more dont talk about this