As a coach I'm frustrated that this does not have more views.. this is the stuff that actually makes players better but no one wants to sit down and listen they just want want the instant gratification of a video teaching you how to put your crosshair on someones head
This is literally perfect timing had a game yesterday where i was super fixated on my aim that I became very predictable in game and the enemy team saw this weakness and punished me for it. I also felt like a liability to my teammates and told my team to bait me but i should've played my role and flashed for my team instead of telling them to bait me. Thanks for uploading this as this is exactly what I was needing, I need to be more selfish with my role and need to work on confidence and pressure because that can also effect me in game.
Yeah it's a really tough position to be in sometimes. One thing I didn't cover which I need to at some point, is: when to stop the session. Sometimes you are past the point where a recovery seems reasonable and your best decision is to do something else other than queue. I definitely agree with your assertion that you should focus on your role! One of the trickiest things here is when you are playing a duelist role or an entry role. If you're a Jett, Reyna or even chamber with the TP, you need to be taking risks that leverage aim + escape ability. When we have games where we're on duelist but not confident enough to take some of those fights, we have to think about other gears to go to that can allow us to still get value from our role and our abilities. Sometimes this might require asking directly for certain things from our teammates like supporting util or to participate in certain setups around us-- not the easiest thing to do when you don't believe in yourself, to ask others to believe in you by directing them! Just keep finding ways to stack the deck in your favor even if your aim isn't feeling it-- again, this is actually very difficult to problem solve sometimes when you aren't confident, but that's what makes good players. The old quote comes to mind: "it's clear who the real professionals are not when everything is going well, but when everything is going bad." Your capacity to manage bad situations but to still come up with good solutions is the defining factor in what a professional is, in this context! I always liked this idea because whenever shit gets tough and you don't know what to do, it's like, "oh shit, here's my opportunity to prove that I know my stuff".
@ddkesports, that is great advice. I do struggle with spamming games, and it's good to have that mental awareness to stop when you're not feeling good, both outside of the game and in the game. I'm definitely going to change my mindset in the game and stop fixating on my aim specifically. Instead, I'll focus on coordinating more plays. You're completely right-adversity is just going to make me a better player. It's better to experience these challenges now, learn from them, and grow. Keep up the good work, and thank you for responding! :)
I’ve noticed a really significant drop in my performance in both CS2 and Valo over the last 2 weeks, and I’ll be honest this video has really opened my eyes to the fact that this drop in performance started when I started going through some things in my life and now I’m fully convinced I’m not washed but I need to focus on my self physically and mentally before I can come back to form. Thank you 🙏🏻
your videos have been helping with my self improvement in game, ive really been able to dial down what ive been doing wrong & adjusting to each scenario depending on what needs to be applied to win a gunfight
hello from straya mate. Opened up a lot of pathways in my mind especially about how i will navigate the game moving forward. Love your work and your handsome words. Earned a sub, keep it up.
I really resonated with this video. I've definitely felt myself hyper-fixate on my aim in VALORANT in particular. Thinking about crosshair placement and visualizing engagements can unconsciously overtake majority of my focus that should be going to other gameplay aspects. In most every game that is a single-player experience, I feel as though I excel in the positive forms of recovering that you discussed in this video. Where I run into mental hurdles in VAL is definitely related to the teamplay portion, specifically if my teammates are being negative or harsh towards me or other players on the team. My OWN team gets into my head 100x more than when the enemy team is dunking on us round after round. Would love to see a future video talking about healthy ways to respond to team toxicity and not have personal performance impacted by that sort of scenario.
That's what i was strugling with and it was a huuuuge problem . As I came to conclusion myself its metnal. Good to hear it by someoneelse Shutout to my coach that send me this. Amazing vdieo. Keep it doing brother.
I have some many clips of people spectating me in rank and saying my aim is so smooth.. BECAUSE I JUST TAKE MY TIME.. you always have more time than you think
Phenomenal video. The concept you're covering has a wide audience, and the sub 30 min runtime i assume makes it more approachable Appreciate the hardcoded subtitles that appear as 2-3 words at a time as you are saying them. I haven't seen this format before and it makes it way easier to follow info dense topics, especially at 1.5x speed Is there a specific program you use to generate these? Will be sharing as much as I can. Thank you for the effort you put into all your videos mate 🙏
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate the encouragement and I'm glad you found it valuable enough to share! I added these with Adobe premiere pro. It has a feature that leverages AI to generate a transcript that can then be turned into captions.
whenever I repeatedy miss shots it's usually that I don't give myself enough time to aim and click before reading the enemy movement properly. Sometimes I manage to fix it ingame, sometimes I take a 10 min aimlabs break to do some dynamic clicking tasks that require me to deliberately click and after that I usually stop missing shots ingame. And if I am missing because I'm having a bad day I feel the best way to adapt to that is adapting the aim technique to account for the worse performance by slowing things down a bit aim wise. I know you said "don't force it" a lot in the video but I still think that if you are able to identify an issue with your aim technique you should try to fix it. That's at least what works best for me. And if I have trouble identifying what exactly is wrong with my aim technique on a bad day I usually compare a current aimlabs replay to a recent good run by me with clean technique and try to identify what I'm doing differently.
I like this solution a lot because you aren't forcing it! You're pausing your play to instead work on technique. One of the reasons why dedicated technique work is beneficial, imo, besides the improvements in technique, is due to you actively knowing you are taking care of your aim. So, in the case you are struggling in the game, it's not as bad because you know you have processes to go to, or in place, to address aim issues. Also, if you are playing and aware your aim is letting you down, I like that you made the choice to pause play to go to an intervention, which is a grounding activity as you are dealing with the issue as opposed to brute forcing it in the game(for you at least, we are all different in what we find works best). Good stuff! If we are too distracted by our aim quality to focus on decision making in game, imo it's better to do something else, which is exactly what you did.
Maybe a good part of frustration lies on expectation and harshness. We want some score or we hate ourself or some teammates or opponents… Maybe if’s more efficient and enjoyable to regularly refocus on the current tactical goal we’re in. Check this line, identify the threat, choose and deploy adequate response, check the result (it’s not a good bad thing, it must be precise, location wise timewise…). Staying busy practicing well will tame the childish whining part of us. 😅
Also for anyone who loved this video, you sound like the type of person that I'd LOVE to queue with in VAL. So feel free to respond to this comment if that's something you'd also enjoy! (: P.S. I play NA Central or East servers 👍
I have very good mechanics. I am usually also very good in custom tryhard deathmatch modes in most games. But when it comes to actually playing a game on ladder, I struggle immensely to be anything else than average. My mechanics are far from what they are in aim trainers or custom games. This goes especially for games like cs and valorant. Maybe a mental thing...
I always hear everyone say “control what you can control” etc but how do you know what you can or cannot control. I feel like i can control things like my aim because im the person doing it, but in the video you're saying that its something u cant control. not saying youre wrong, im just trying to gain more knowledge, amazing video btw :)
That's a great question-- I think a good thought experiment here to answer your question is: if you're in control of your aim fully, then why aren't you able to hit everytime you want to? Why would even the best players miss shots? Ultimately, we know it can't be the case we're fully in control of whether we hit the shot in the moment or not. There's a lot of variation in lots of small things because we're human-- your focus, attention, reaction speed, quality of your technique, emotional state, the friction on your pad (especially if cloth, varies due to things or humidity), etc etc. A lot of the time we're needing to react and execute a shot in under 200ms and the shot has to be high quality or we die. As humans we're going to miss sometimes and we can only set ourselves up to be in the best condition possible to hopefully minimize this, but we ultimately can't guarantee anything. A larger point in my video here is that, when we do miss, because it feels bad to miss and to lose or underperform, our brain brings our attention to what it thinks the problem is (aim). As such, we end up putting a level of focus on our aim that hurts the execution more than it helps. If we try to force the outcome of good aim by obsessing on it and focusing on it too much, we are going to make it even worse. Your reaction times will slow down, your reads and prediction will be worse and you will also be more emotionally vulnerable to subsequent misses. Does that answer your question? You are in control of your aim, but you aren't in control of how many shots you hit. Your performance is a range- you will start out and end in a different part of that range each day. With good training and habits we can set ourselves up to be consistent or inconsistent. We can set ourselves up to minimize variance or to increase it.
As a coach I'm frustrated that this does not have more views.. this is the stuff that actually makes players better but no one wants to sit down and listen they just want want the instant gratification of a video teaching you how to put your crosshair on someones head
You know if w0rthy approves it’s a good video
oh my god the w0rthy seal of approval
It is really telling that a coach that I follow and study is here still studying the mechanics and the mentality of the game. You are a great coach.
@@egedanr7608 You should never stop learning
This was the mosy eye opening video on my own mental in game in 6 or so years. Im going to listen to this on repeat untill its ingrained into my head
This is literally perfect timing had a game yesterday where i was super fixated on my aim that I became very predictable in game and the enemy team saw this weakness and punished me for it.
I also felt like a liability to my teammates and told my team to bait me but i should've played my role and flashed for my team instead of telling them to bait me. Thanks for uploading this as this is exactly what I was needing, I need to be more selfish with my role and need to work on confidence and pressure because that can also effect me in game.
Yeah it's a really tough position to be in sometimes. One thing I didn't cover which I need to at some point, is: when to stop the session. Sometimes you are past the point where a recovery seems reasonable and your best decision is to do something else other than queue.
I definitely agree with your assertion that you should focus on your role!
One of the trickiest things here is when you are playing a duelist role or an entry role. If you're a Jett, Reyna or even chamber with the TP, you need to be taking risks that leverage aim + escape ability. When we have games where we're on duelist but not confident enough to take some of those fights, we have to think about other gears to go to that can allow us to still get value from our role and our abilities. Sometimes this might require asking directly for certain things from our teammates like supporting util or to participate in certain setups around us-- not the easiest thing to do when you don't believe in yourself, to ask others to believe in you by directing them! Just keep finding ways to stack the deck in your favor even if your aim isn't feeling it-- again, this is actually very difficult to problem solve sometimes when you aren't confident, but that's what makes good players. The old quote comes to mind: "it's clear who the real professionals are not when everything is going well, but when everything is going bad." Your capacity to manage bad situations but to still come up with good solutions is the defining factor in what a professional is, in this context! I always liked this idea because whenever shit gets tough and you don't know what to do, it's like, "oh shit, here's my opportunity to prove that I know my stuff".
@ddkesports, that is great advice. I do struggle with spamming games, and it's good to have that mental awareness to stop when you're not feeling good, both outside of the game and in the game.
I'm definitely going to change my mindset in the game and stop fixating on my aim specifically. Instead, I'll focus on coordinating more plays. You're completely right-adversity is just going to make me a better player. It's better to experience these challenges now, learn from them, and grow. Keep up the good work, and thank you for responding! :)
I’ve noticed a really significant drop in my performance in both CS2 and Valo over the last 2 weeks, and I’ll be honest this video has really opened my eyes to the fact that this drop in performance started when I started going through some things in my life and now I’m fully convinced I’m not washed but I need to focus on my self physically and mentally before I can come back to form. Thank you 🙏🏻
your videos have been helping with my self improvement in game, ive really been able to dial down what ive been doing wrong & adjusting to each scenario depending on what needs to be applied to win a gunfight
Awesome. Glad to hear it!!
as a cs player this helped me alot i was so mad that i wanted to break everything in my room, watched the vid and im fine now XD
hello from straya mate. Opened up a lot of pathways in my mind especially about how i will navigate the game moving forward. Love your work and your handsome words. Earned a sub, keep it up.
best video on the topic i've seen so far, great job mate!
Wow, thanks!
I really resonated with this video. I've definitely felt myself hyper-fixate on my aim in VALORANT in particular. Thinking about crosshair placement and visualizing engagements can unconsciously overtake majority of my focus that should be going to other gameplay aspects.
In most every game that is a single-player experience, I feel as though I excel in the positive forms of recovering that you discussed in this video.
Where I run into mental hurdles in VAL is definitely related to the teamplay portion, specifically if my teammates are being negative or harsh towards me or other players on the team. My OWN team gets into my head 100x more than when the enemy team is dunking on us round after round.
Would love to see a future video talking about healthy ways to respond to team toxicity and not have personal performance impacted by that sort of scenario.
Truly amazing video. Super insightful, I apreciate your content my man.
Thank you so much! 😁
That's what i was strugling with and it was a huuuuge problem . As I came to conclusion myself its metnal. Good to hear it by someoneelse Shutout to my coach that send me this. Amazing vdieo. Keep it doing brother.
Great Video for young gamers who wanna be pros most , appreciate it
Great video with loads of good advice! Keep up the content man, earned a sub! Also inspiring to watch you🔥
Thank you so much!
I have some many clips of people spectating me in rank and saying my aim is so smooth.. BECAUSE I JUST
TAKE MY TIME.. you always have more time than you think
I call fucking BS. I take my time and get INSTA head shot. I try strafing fast and random but they get me EVERYTIME
Phenomenal video. The concept you're covering has a wide audience, and the sub 30 min runtime i assume makes it more approachable
Appreciate the hardcoded subtitles that appear as 2-3 words at a time as you are saying them. I haven't seen this format before and it makes it way easier to follow info dense topics, especially at 1.5x speed
Is there a specific program you use to generate these?
Will be sharing as much as I can. Thank you for the effort you put into all your videos mate 🙏
Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate the encouragement and I'm glad you found it valuable enough to share!
I added these with Adobe premiere pro. It has a feature that leverages AI to generate a transcript that can then be turned into captions.
ive also noticed, pros in rankedd games can have bad starts, but they can almost always recover with one good round. no wonder they are so consistent
There was a period where I tried to force it. I went down to a consistend 0.7 kd. Now I am in a good mindset at 0.92 kd and still climbing
I've been doing this so much lol, trying to turn brain off, get a duel asap and hyperfocus on dueling/aim and just failing from there
you got this
whenever I repeatedy miss shots it's usually that I don't give myself enough time to aim and click before reading the enemy movement properly. Sometimes I manage to fix it ingame, sometimes I take a 10 min aimlabs break to do some dynamic clicking tasks that require me to deliberately click and after that I usually stop missing shots ingame.
And if I am missing because I'm having a bad day I feel the best way to adapt to that is adapting the aim technique to account for the worse performance by slowing things down a bit aim wise. I know you said "don't force it" a lot in the video but I still think that if you are able to identify an issue with your aim technique you should try to fix it. That's at least what works best for me.
And if I have trouble identifying what exactly is wrong with my aim technique on a bad day I usually compare a current aimlabs replay to a recent good run by me with clean technique and try to identify what I'm doing differently.
I like this solution a lot because you aren't forcing it! You're pausing your play to instead work on technique. One of the reasons why dedicated technique work is beneficial, imo, besides the improvements in technique, is due to you actively knowing you are taking care of your aim. So, in the case you are struggling in the game, it's not as bad because you know you have processes to go to, or in place, to address aim issues.
Also, if you are playing and aware your aim is letting you down, I like that you made the choice to pause play to go to an intervention, which is a grounding activity as you are dealing with the issue as opposed to brute forcing it in the game(for you at least, we are all different in what we find works best). Good stuff!
If we are too distracted by our aim quality to focus on decision making in game, imo it's better to do something else, which is exactly what you did.
Maybe a good part of frustration lies on expectation and harshness.
We want some score or we hate ourself or some teammates or opponents…
Maybe if’s more efficient and enjoyable to regularly refocus on the current tactical goal we’re in.
Check this line, identify the threat, choose and deploy adequate response, check the result (it’s not a good bad thing, it must be precise, location wise timewise…).
Staying busy practicing well will tame the childish whining part of us. 😅
Also for anyone who loved this video, you sound like the type of person that I'd LOVE to queue with in VAL. So feel free to respond to this comment if that's something you'd also enjoy! (:
P.S. I play NA Central or East servers 👍
Nice. What's your rank atm? Also, I have a discord, you may better direct this there potentially! (link in description of all my vids!)
“Don’t. Force. It.”
I have very good mechanics. I am usually also very good in custom tryhard deathmatch modes in most games. But when it comes to actually playing a game on ladder, I struggle immensely to be anything else than average. My mechanics are far from what they are in aim trainers or custom games. This goes especially for games like cs and valorant. Maybe a mental thing...
great vid
so early for this let’s go !!!
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I always hear everyone say “control what you can control” etc but how do you know what you can or cannot control. I feel like i can control things like my aim because im the person doing it, but in the video you're saying that its something u cant control. not saying youre wrong, im just trying to gain more knowledge, amazing video btw :)
That's a great question-- I think a good thought experiment here to answer your question is: if you're in control of your aim fully, then why aren't you able to hit everytime you want to? Why would even the best players miss shots?
Ultimately, we know it can't be the case we're fully in control of whether we hit the shot in the moment or not. There's a lot of variation in lots of small things because we're human-- your focus, attention, reaction speed, quality of your technique, emotional state, the friction on your pad (especially if cloth, varies due to things or humidity), etc etc. A lot of the time we're needing to react and execute a shot in under 200ms and the shot has to be high quality or we die.
As humans we're going to miss sometimes and we can only set ourselves up to be in the best condition possible to hopefully minimize this, but we ultimately can't guarantee anything.
A larger point in my video here is that, when we do miss, because it feels bad to miss and to lose or underperform, our brain brings our attention to what it thinks the problem is (aim). As such, we end up putting a level of focus on our aim that hurts the execution more than it helps. If we try to force the outcome of good aim by obsessing on it and focusing on it too much, we are going to make it even worse. Your reaction times will slow down, your reads and prediction will be worse and you will also be more emotionally vulnerable to subsequent misses.
Does that answer your question?
You are in control of your aim, but you aren't in control of how many shots you hit. Your performance is a range- you will start out and end in a different part of that range each day. With good training and habits we can set ourselves up to be consistent or inconsistent. We can set ourselves up to minimize variance or to increase it.
@@ddkesports Great answer, it makes a lot of sense now. I never thought about it like that, thank you so much :)
Don’t @ me but hitting shots on people who are clueless and not looking at you are the hardest to hit
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