One of the most common questions I get asked is, “When should I begin mental training?” Most athletes believe that first they must be an elite performer, and then they will work on the nitty gritty stuff. Unfortunately they couldn’t be more wrong. “If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall […]
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Aiming to go pro?
People have asked me what they need to do to break into the professional eSport scene. There’s only one good answer. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ~ Steve Martin Are you doing everything you can to be the strongest version of yourself? Mental skills training helps you practice at your peak. You can […]
A champion’s professional attitude
It’s possible to be a professional eSport athlete without having a professional mindset. Getting paid to play is usually achieved by attaining a certain level of performance. However, developing that play into a championship means dedication, hard work, and a mindset that allows for you to overcome defeats and strive for victory. There’s always the […]
Leadership is fighting for men’s hearts
Leadership is abound in sports and eSports. Captains need to lead, coaches, need to lead, managers need to lead. Even in-game different players take the helm and lead at different times and moments. However, nothing is quite as powerful and important as the coach-athlete relationship if we look at elite players in history, and who made […]
Individuals play, teams beat the odds
“Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.” ~Navy seals It takes an inhuman amount of dedication to conquer the bodies desire to toss in the towel. The Navy Seals knows that you can’t win all the time, but you can win most of the time. Consistency is bred in teamwork. Why? Because most […]
Training effciency
“We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” ~ Archilochus, Greek Soldier, Poet, c. 650 BC eSports is especially vulnerable to ineffective training. Most professional athletes or elite performers in traditional sports don’t spend a lot of time playing pickup games in the lot on […]
Confucius on self-talk
He who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right. ~ Confucius Self-talk is all the stuff you say to yourself in your mind. Even your emotions are a kind of self-talk, especially if you are mad at yourself. Usually a person’s self-talk is a product of their self-confidence. However, […]
Knute Rockne on teamwork in sports
The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11. ~ Knute Rockne (College Football Hall of Fame Coach)
D4rker – training
“You just need to be patient, you need to motivate yourself more and more, even if you lose a lot of games. If you lose ten games, a hundred games, a million games you need to keep in mind that you can only progress from loses; you can only learn your mistakes from lose to […]
Bruce Lee – mental toughness
Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a-half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to […]