Hey PP do you ever get super nervous during matches? I feel like I play terrible in tournament. My hands are sweaty, im all nervous. My friends are watching me. How do you block it out? Im sure you've been to enough tournaments that it doesn't effect you as much but I just get so nervous that I feel I just forget everything.
I'm seeing recurring topics here....I'll need to make a post on this soon to put in the OP.
But yes, everyone gets nervous. EVERYONE. M2K, Armada, Mango, Hbox, myself, EVERYONE. It's a human condition to get nervous before events and you'd be crazy if you didn't. Adrenaline pumps through your body and gets you hyped because your body is preparing itself for intense activity, why would you want to stop that?
When you get nervous, you can either focus on the feeling(like any emotion) or you can work to understand it and then work with it. You COULD focus on the fact that your cat died, or that everyone is watching you, or you have rent due next month and it'll be cut close, or any other random topic that can cause you added stress because human beings are amazing at doing that to themselves if you give them a chance. BUT you can also focus on why you're nervous: the competition will be difficult. That does not mean you should panic, but instead begin preparing appropriately. You have a tough match vs Fox coming up? You should be thinking about HOW to BEAT Fox(matchup) and how to beat the Fox player. Adrenaline will assist your thinking and keep you focused.
Warming up helps keep the nerves low, and allows you to prepare yourself for matches anyway. You focus on playing the game and thinking of nothing else, which is the best and really only way to handle nerves: focusing on the task you must accomplish and preparing as much as possible for it. If you have trained and practiced well, then your muscles will not lock up and your tech skill will be almost perfectly mechanical. If you have theorized and studied well, then your knowledge will not fail you. If you are taking care of your body, then you will not get tired and adrenaline will boost your focus and mental processing. Handling nerves is not something that can always be handled at the event because the things that you need to ignore them like I just listed are developed PRIOR to the event. If you have trained hard and are motivated, why should you focus on nerves? YOU SHOULDN'T! You should focus on what it takes to be successful.
More on this when I make a longer post. Basically, I focus on what I need to do and warm up more if I get too nervous. I, above all else, don't give into nervous thoughts and imagine all of the bad possibilities.
kevin's solution to everything is to get pissed. seriously sometimes mid-set on youtube you can actually see where he gets pissed lol
That is a giant troll
but it has just enough truth to where I can't get
mad
over it
ok kevin, teach me peach next semester. either that, or teach ashley lol.
teaching you falco, fox, sheik, falcon, marth, and now peach!
we will figure this character out eventually LOL
salt mode PP is really fun to play. this one time i was 2v1'ing him with team attack off with another guy and man, good times were had.
chris I was not salty about that <.<
but it WAS really funny
i don't think getting mad to win is healthy and i don't think its a good mentality to have
i think this community would be better as a whole if people didn't focus as much on winning at all costs and focused more on respect and fun
Just like nerves, giving into anger is not correct. That said, using anger to fuel your focus CAN be okay.
Emotion is like a sign telling you that something needs correcting. Getting angry means you are having to deal with an unpleasant thought and need to adjust your reality for it.
Scrub mentality. You are here to DEFEAT your opponent, not have sex with him.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLOOOOLLLLLOO
What good is emotion if you let it take clear thinking away? Consider both sides if you're gonna sit in your chair and analyze. =p
I agree with Mahone. Watching two top level players just trying to destroy each other every stock gets pretty boring. When both players are taking it less serious and playing for fun like Mango it's much less tense and more fun for the viewer. That's why I would consider Mango better than Armada despite the results of Genesis 2 and Apex.
Mango doesn't play for fun.
It's a fun game, but he plays to win like everyone else.
Ya, i acknowledge its a DAVID-SIRLIN-PLAY2WIN SCRUB mentality, but maybe there are some things more important than winning
Well i wasn't saying that top players shouldn't take the matches seriously. Its fine if two players want to try their hardest and test themselves, but i think its not healthy to "get angry" just to try to beat someone. A good example of taking the game too seriously imo is Armada picking ylink and trying to time hbox out on purpose to "make him pay" for playing puff and playing gay or whatever. Like, armada should play to win, and its fine to counterpick, but purposefully trying to frustrate your opponent outside of the game seems rather cruel and unnecessary.
After all, it's still a game and no one is making that much money off of it, so i don't see why people feel the need to get so salty and rage. It's ok to be disappointed because thats just natural if you put a lot of time into something and don't succeed, but like hbox and pp throwing their controllers after losing to chu/javi seems pretty disrespectful to me.
I would much rather congratulate the opponent and ask to play friendlies, or try to learn why i lost, how they train outside of tourney, etc. than get mad and john which is what most people do.
When you put a lot of time into the game it's tough to watch your hard work go up in smoke sometimes. There is no excuse for being a child or acting disrespectfully, but it is a community of young adult males and we like being immature sometimes. As long as no one goes too far with immaturity like hitting people or whatever then I don't think a thrown controller here or there is THAT bad.
That said, you won't be seeing me throw anything or acting disrespectfully again unless something very serious is going on. I have been doing work on being more respectful and controlling myself lately and I have liked my progress thus far. =)
I don't think turnips are the big problem for Falco vs her. I think it's her float (then again, I hate turnips, so I dunno).
It's definitely the float and CC Dsmash LOL. Mostly float though I'd guess. Her OOS counter game is pretty nifty vs Falco's attacking game as well. Turnips are sucky but she has a super hard time pulling them vs Falco.
Ya, but i don't see why you would need to get mad to overcome obstacles, either way, my point is that you can be as cutthroat as you want, but i don't think people separate in the game from out of the game... you can lose a game and be mad at puff or whoever and be frustrated you lost, but you should have nothing but respect for someone who beat you. And if you truly respect them, you wouldn't sully their win by throwing a controller or johning later.
See, i would say that you already made your mistake when you considered all those things "gay"... sure some things can be frustrating like ledge camping for example, but if you cant handle those things without getting angry, maybe you should reconsider your attitude and what your real goals in smash are.
There was a phase where i was getting frustrated that all these players were trying to time me out and just in general camp my puff a lot, so what i decided to do is take a break from entering tournaments. I don't choose to enter a tournament if i am not in the mood to be camped or "gayed" or whatever. When i DO enter, i have a good attitude and respect all my opponents strategies, even if they are trying to time me out.
It isn't fair for you to expect people to play YOUR melee when you enter a tournament. There are probably 100+ things you do that players you face will find annoying/gay/frustrating, so its not reasonable for you to get angry because they are using a strategy you personally won't use and think is "gay".
A good example is m2k, who camps the ledge harder than any other top player, but consistently complains about how gay puff and falco are... I just think these kind of attitudes are super disrespectful to your opponents and tbh it makes me not want to play a lot of the time, because no one feels good about making someone else angry, no matter how unreasonable they are being.
Great post!!!
Attaching names to a scenario, naming it, giving it connotations beyond what it is, that can only distract you more from dealing with it. You're 100% correct and I like how you handled your own issue.
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Oh yeah. Sucks though. Most people have no respect for certain play styles and such. It is kind of a crappy mentality, but eh.
Even the top players do it.
Except pp as far as I know
It is pretty unfortunate =(
I don't do it but it takes some focus once in a while not to be that way hahaha =p
lol every time kevin goes to a smash tournament, i ask him about his travels and not the tournament.
cause, you know, we'll talk about the smash eventually anyway.
cause we white homies.
kevin: see you at TGI Fridays
/white-man high 5.
PFFFFFFFFF
I love you
