Friday, February 6, 2009

Things to write in the journal

Recently, I've had a lot of want to write in my journal.  I've been keeping it fairly organized recently, and have been holding myself back and stopping myself from writing things that don't pretain to the actual subject at hand right now (which are character break downs).  I'm writing this blog (with the help of a friend, thanks Jacob!) so that I don't forget to include certain topics regarding becoming a better player.  All in all, here are the things we came up with:

Limiting options, reading opponents versus playing analytically, what playing analytically means, training room 101, conditioning opponents and the ability to adapt, playing to win versus playing to learn, mental blocks of all the sort and playing without limits, mindset before during and after the match, grudge matches and how they affect your play, upsets and why they happen, how to take a loss, the importance of having multiple characters, nerves during tournament time, explaining the tiers and how top/mid/low are different regarding how good of a player you must be to win with them, sandbagging and its affects on the scene and player, taking a break and getting out of that slump, Apoc's mythical post, the power of playing everyone to your true potential and underestimating an opponent, psyching out the opponent before or during the match :), sitting on a lead, 

This will be forever changing so, I'll just leave it here for now!