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Originally Posted by Meano101
Ha!!
The trial went okay.. was throwing fine in pairs before the session, then in a breakforce drill turfed my first flick.. so found a way to not throw anymore flicks.. wasn't that hard actually, lefty backhands ftw..
Also got a completely unexpected email from Fire, asking me back for one more session.. which was surprising, I was so sure I had stuffed the first trial I didn't even bother turn up for the others lol.. anyway, I played pretty meh, they said in their inviation that they wanted to see my ability to break the force.. lo and behold, the first drill is a breakforce drill, and I promptly turfed two flicks.. a few days later learned I didn't make the team.. so that was the season right there, lol
Been reading and watching alot about mental toughness, if anyone has any resources or recommendations, would love to hear them.
The standard 2+2 advice is Tommy Angelo/Jared Tendler (see the thread snippet below from POG poker thread) - though I'm not sure how useful you'ld find that.
But it sounds like focussing on working on your breakforce flick technique is what you really need to do
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Originally Posted by HiFi
This thread may not be an ideal place to post this, but I think it's the best I can do.
I have not played a full schedule or anything like it in about 18 months. Just over a year ago, I had electroconvulsive therapy, which did a fantastic job of rewiring my brain. As incredibly grateful as I am that it was effective, this new brain of mine isn't very good at the mental game. It sounds ass backwards, but I knew how to keep myself from tilting and calm myself down even when I was nuts, because even though the territory in my brain was hostile, it was at least familiar. All of my toughness and resilience are gone. I get stacked and it actually hurts, and I bricked a bunch of circuit events... I find myself being super results oriented, which is completely ****ed because I know better than that.
Aside from committing [Jared] Tendler to memory (which I would so totally do), does anyone have any magic antitilt recipes?
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Originally Posted by fnord_too
Have you ever read any of Tommy Angelo's stuff? He has some great advice on practicing meditation and I'll call it micro meditation. Elements of Poker is great; I think he has another book coming out soon, too, but I can't really speak to that.
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Originally Posted by kokiri
Consigned. He had a really great deuces cracked series that I think was maybe elements of poker in audio format, but was really solid mental stuff.
(I think you can still sign up for DC, download some video/audio as a trial and then cancel within a week and so not pay anything. You'll have to check.)