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Valorant 37: Back on the Grind
Byjack
Thoughts:
- Make the transitions smoother, add in more wide swings
- Focus on micro adjusting more before shooting
- Overall very strong stuff, great positioning
- Not having much luck with the micro adjust
- Try to shoot twice and crouch
- Use the difference between head and crosshair as new micro adjust method
- I hate DM
- I don’t really know what to do
- Maybe need to watch some pro vods
I really want to work on my mindset when I get upset, miss my shots or get frustrated with my teammates.
Some ideas:
- Pumping myself up
- Judging based on “clipable” moments rather than kills
- Use music to pump up
- Self-talk strategies
- I believe in myself
- I’ve done it before, I can do it again
- This is a small part of my long journey to being the best
- When feeling physically/mentally unwell and need a reset
- Exercise
- Watch videos of my vlogs and reflections
- Tumeric tea
- Playing music
Valorant 42: Chaining Kills
Byjack
A new mentality that I’ve been working with is the idea of chaining kills.
- Come up with a play that I want to go for (util, direction, etc.)
- Go for not a single kill, but a multikill
- Expect more than one
- Have a gameplan for getting not one, but 5 kills
It is interesting that taking the offensive makes you much better at being confident. Also, expecting multiple attackers and working on killing as many as possible makes it a lot harder for people to catch you with a trade.
Knee Mobility Challenge 3: Inflammation and Depletion
Byjack
After trying out the first two AGT (ATHLETIC TRUTH GROUP) Zero workouts from the Knees Over Toes guy, I’m feeling very hopeful. The kinds of exercises we are doing legitimately make the knee feel stronger and more flexible and like it was worked out in the right ways.
The main issue is inflammation. After a few days of non-stop traveling, weeks of stress and sleep deprivation, and a workout that left my knees shaking, it’s no wonder I felt extremely inflamed and depleted afterward, the thing I always worry about when I work out.
Luckily, I talked to my coach today about feeling like I shouldn’t work during depletion even though work sometimes makes me feel stronger and more energetic. I finally have a sort of solution to depletion and inflammation. It’s a version of self-soothing that I like to call self-cuddling. I thought of it because sometimes I just wish my girlfriend was here so I could cuddle with her, but I can actually hold myself and freeze in soft comfy positions that I can then move and change. There are elements of stillness and comfort and delicious movement.
There is a sort of feeling that work is similar. That interesting and powerful work can be delicious movement and calmness can be holding myself and cuddling with myself.
All this is very similar to the dance practice I used to do all the time. Some self-massage, holding myself in comforting poses, and fast spinning clearing movements.
A short test of this yields amazing results. I felt the inflammation moving and melting. My system fluid and de-stagnated.
Valorant 33: Brimstone Pearl
Byjack
This idea of finding the same type of gameplay in a pro or radiant player was really interesting, and so I decided to take it into my next vod review.
My vod:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05HsudTzvQ
Main takeaways:
- I’m mad about getting one tapped, but that actually happens at all ranks, Valorant is a quick time to kill game
- Controllers don’t smoke as quickly as I do, and they often use them selfishly (smoking mid if they play mid to establish control over the parts they want to take control over)
- The smoke on B site creates a wall from pushing onto site, I guess I didn’t know what kinds of smokes would be useful
- In terms of playing around smokes, they move quite slowly in and out of smokes
- Generally play wide and out in the open for better angle advantage, I play scared and close to the wall
Profit in Peace 21: A Break
Byjack
Today is my first break from work in what seems like forever. I have a couple of things planned for the break, hanging out with family, spending some time gaming, and hopefully sneaking in a few calls with my girlfriend.
I also want to spend some significant time on my Instagram and business.
I’ve been thinking a lot about boundaries and how to let go of taking responsibility for other emotions, and I’ve been thinking again on this idea of believing in everyone’s power over themselves.
I feel that when you feel that people don’t have the resiliency to handle situations, or the ability to overcome situations, or at the very least, learn from them, that is when you start to take responsibility for their emotions. How could you not, if you have the ability to handle your emotions, but they are not able to handle theirs? Sometimes, you need to just trust in the process. If they need to complain, get hurt, work through their feelings, something you need to trust in their process.