Weldon Teaches Optimizing Your Performance
Weldon Green
A Peaceful Mind
Lesson 1
Weldon helps you understand the crux of his work in professional esports by:
Defining Mindfulness and its application in sports & esports
Outlining the benefits of Mindfulness and focus training
Mindfulness techniques for extracting maximum value out or your training
The importance of facing your mistakes and accepting reality
Aimlabs Challenge
Following Weldon’s advice, review 1 VOD each day this week and pick out your 3 biggest mistakes in each one. As a follow-up go back through each VOD to visualize your mistakes down to the motor control involved to visualize what the correct action would have been (i.e. mouse movement, character control, flick, etc.).
Lessons
Weldon helps you understand the crux of his work in professional esports by:
Defining Mindfulness and its application in sports & esports
Outlining the benefits of Mindfulness and focus training
Mindfulness techniques for extracting maximum value out or your training
The importance of facing your mistakes and accepting reality
Weldon delves deep into the psychology and behaviors of tilting by:
Defining what being tilted is and what it’s not
Techniques for handling tilt in yourself and in teammates
Different ways to inspire teammates through leadership
Understanding how emotions naturally impact people in tilting situations
Weldon breaks down a mental state that gamers commonly struggle with, covering topics such as:
Different types of anxiety and the unique way it affects gamers
Healthy coping mechanisms for handling anxiety
Anti-choking techniques - understanding how your brain learns new skills and how anxiety disrupts your execution
Ways to effectively train for main stage including embracing chaos and repetition
Performance hacks that can help you perform on-stage
Contextualize your own learning goals in esports by exploring:
Weldon’s take on the relationship between age and performance in esports
The value of education for people interested in gaming industry careers
What to look for in a good coach and the best ways they can add value to your learning (improving your mirror & model)
The importance of identifying your preferred learning styles and motivation
Advice for each stage of becoming a professional player
Weldon teaches you the ways a healthy routine can dramatically improve your practice by covering:
The importance of nutrition and diet in creating best practices for gaming
How processed foods and snacks negatively effect your performance and increase your “ping”
Weldon’s basic recommendations for how to shape and balance your diet
The importance of exercise and physical activity in maximizing your performance