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

Today I am officially getting back into the grind right, using the same technique as before where I try to emulate the pros.

Some thoughts:

• Does a lot of wide swinging in big smooth arcs.
• A bit of movement based aim
• Ficks very fast to new angles
• Two taps, using movement strafing, then crouch

Some thoughts:

• Aspas aim is much more similar to mine, less smooth, but distinctly clears and preaims angles
• Barely counterstrafes, taps a lot and them spray
• Does a lot of widepeeks as well
• Like to hold angles a lot more

• Good attempt to wide swing, need to hold angles more until the swing
• Wide swing needs good crosshair placement
• Make sure you are ready for them to be visible at the edge of your swing
• Good practice holding angles

• Good overall but prefire is a bit messy, might be from pain and uncomfortable elbow position
• Crosshair can also get a bit unstead, not using movement to aim

My games today were frustrating. I felt I was moving too fast when it was dangerous (I have a feeling enemies are nearby). I tend to rush my aim and my peek. What helped a lot with that is the preparing your crosshair in the intuitively most comfortable way to take a fight. It’s engaging and helps me slow down and be more intentional. I won every game after using that technique.

Thoughts:

• Can flash high on B
• Stun choke in A is common
• You can stun from far away

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:

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

Yesterday I returned to Valorant and I wanted to learn a few things since being washed before I get back fully into the Valorant grind.

1. I want to learn how to have comfortable hand positioning
2. I want to have greater certainty of where all the enemies are at any point in time and a clearer understanding of the game

Class One: Hand positioning (90 minutes)

UNIT ONE: Figure out why

UNIT TWO: Explore Movements

UNIT THREE: Explore aids and relief

Class Two: Greater certainty (3 hrs)

UNIT ONE: Document VOD areas of stress and find equivalent situations in ranked

UNIT TWO: Try to predict decision making

UNIT THREE: Document another VOD

Class One: Hand positioning (90 minutes)

UNIT ONE: Figure out why

I’d say I have a little golfers elbow along with just muscle fatigue. No carpal tunnel syndrome or trigger finger syndrome thankfully.

UNIT TWO: Explore Movements

My perfect position seems to be legs balanced on the floor, chest forwards, armrest angled outwards and level with the desk and pushed backward so I can sit farther forwards.

The results on my sheriff-only account:

I feel mild soreness in my hand and forearm. My whole body feels a bit cramped as well. Overall, massive improvement.

I used a new aiming mentality, which I call the “Zoom In” Method where you pretend you are zooming into where your crosshair is and on the target, sort of getting mental blinders on. It seems to help especially with aiming for very far shots.

Then I played a rank match:

My “greater certainly” class was me looking up at how Som played vs me.

I was really helpful to see the util usage. I ended up using a lot of this information in future matches.

However, I spiraled after playing ranked because I was so frustrated with how I was performing. I ended up playing non-stop from Friday until Sunday sleeping not as much as I would like and always livid from anger that all my opponents were so hard to beat.