How to Get Good

#31

tooth

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Mukhtar1this isn't broad enough to relate to something with so many variables like a fps

The article addresses that, saying that you basically need to dive down and identify specific actions or failures that you want to improve on. Rather than "I want to get better at TF2" it might be something like "I've been told that I often forget to comm uber status throughout the charge (solo, come in for a flash, focus x, bad uber, etc) so for the next couple days I'm going to focus on, and request that others provide feedback whenever I don't comm, providing useful communications that my team can act upon during ubers."

ArticlePurposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal. If you’re a weekend golfer and you want to decrease your handicap by five strokes, that’s fine for an overall purpose, but it is not a well-defined, specific goal that can be used effectively for your practice. Break it down and make a plan: What exactly do you need to do to slice five strokes off your handicap? One goal might be to increase the number of drives landing in the fairway. That’s a reasonably specific goal, but you need to break it down even more: What exactly will you do to increase the number of successful drives? You will need to figure out why so many of your drives are not landing in the fairway and address that by, for instance, working to reduce your tendency to hook the ball. How do you do that? An instructor can give you advice on how to change your swing motion in specific ways. And so on. The key thing is to take that general goal—get better—and turn it into something specific that you can work on with a realistic expectation of improvement.

[quote=Mukhtar1]this isn't broad enough to relate to something with so many variables like a fps[/quote]

The article addresses that, saying that you basically need to dive down and identify specific actions or failures that you want to improve on. Rather than "[i]I want to get better at TF2[/i]" it might be something like "[i]I've been told that I often forget to comm uber status throughout the charge (solo, come in for a flash, focus x, bad uber, etc) so for the next couple days I'm going to focus on, and request that others provide feedback whenever I don't comm, providing useful communications that my team can act upon during ubers.[/i]"

[quote=Article]Purposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal. If you’re a weekend golfer and you want to decrease your handicap by five strokes, that’s fine for an overall purpose, but it is not a well-defined, specific goal that can be used effectively for your practice. Break it down and make a plan: What exactly do you need to do to slice five strokes off your handicap? One goal might be to increase the number of drives landing in the fairway. That’s a reasonably specific goal, but you need to break it down even more: What exactly will you do to increase the number of successful drives? You will need to figure out why so many of your drives are not landing in the fairway and address that by, for instance, working to reduce your tendency to hook the ball. How do you do that? An instructor can give you advice on how to change your swing motion in specific ways. And so on. The key thing is to take that general goal—get better—and turn it into something specific that you can work on with a realistic expectation of improvement.[/quote]

#32

Mukhtar1

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmgJAGpHOek

#33

Hidi

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One hockey camp I attended, their motto was "practice makes permanent" rather than "perfect", expressing the message that practice is only what you make of it. You can spend hours practising your slap shot, but if you don't use the right technique, then the improper technique will be the one engraved in your mind.

#34

fade-

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my crew coach said that you needed to have good form but really it just comes down to who does the most steady state