Losing Your Head

[CJ Wiley]

The only question is "Can you Let it Strengthen you?"

So I was in another one of these all day tourney's playing great all day. On point, relaxed, focused, in the zone. After about 8 hrs of playing I get to my last match and completely lose my head. It's like I'm a prizefighter that took too many head shots. Just a total fog and can't seem to get anything going. And no matter what can't seem to snap out of it. My question is how the hell do you get out of that? If anyone knows please share this knowledge I'm in desperate need of.:angry:

There's many different levels of learning, there's the "surface level" that everyone can see - there's the "experienced level" that only the experienced players and observers can see - then there's the "Deep Level" that goes into the subconscious and how it is channeled mentally, and physically to reach the highest level's of performance.

Some of these "lessons" have to be learned by the experience you had in your tourney......"what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" - the game is the teacher

 

[DirtyJersey]

I know this feeling well. The older I get the harder it gets to stay focused for long periods.

What I have found that affects my focus the most is my blood sugar. It's easy to go too long without eating. Since I suck in the first round so often, I'm used to playing back to back for hours scrapping it out on the loser side.. I make myself eat something every two hours. Not a lot of food but a small amount because eating big and heavy puts me to sleep.

Alcohol is the second demon. In a long tourney, I try to abstain or at least wait til later in the night to start.

Yeah making the decision when to eat is critical for me. Also there usually isn't much good food at these places. It just seemed like when I had to play it was time to turn the switch on and it just had no juice. The light was out but I did not shoot lights out :frown: