1v1s are too stressful

[Alpha]

Am I the only one who puts holes in his keyboard during 1v1's?

I played a 1v1 against a complete noob who had 4000wins & 3000 losses, but for some reason I was too shakey to even go on the offense. I went as far as taking a one minute pause for some deep breaths.

A couple years ago I used to keep a tub of warm water under my desk to "calm my nerve endings." I think I can sometimes attribute my giddiness to cold hands, and I've been told that most of our body heat escapes through our feet & scalp. So warm nerve endings would allow warm blood to circulate to my hands.

Can anyone suggest some meditative techniques or something? Or am I alone in my pursuit of clear-headed gaming?

[«Canadian»]

Simple relaxation tools, such as deep breathing and relaxing imagery, can help calm down angry feelings.
Some simple steps you can try:

Breathe deeply, from your diaphragm; breathing from your chest won't relax you. Picture your breath coming up from your "gut."

Slowly repeat a calm word or phrase such as "relax," "take it easy." Repeat it to yourself while breathing deeply.

Use imagery; visualize a relaxing experience, from either your memory or your imagination.

Nonstrenuous, slow yoga-like exercises can relax your muscles and make you feel much calmer.
Practice these techniques daily. Learn to use them automatically when you're in a tense situation.
"Silly humor" can help defuse rage in a number of ways. For one thing, it can help you get a more balanced perspective. When you get angry and call someone a name or refer to them in some imaginative phrase, stop and picture what that word would literally look like. If you're at work and you think of a coworker as a "dirtbag" or a "single-cell life form," for example, picture a large bag full of dirt (or an amoeba) sitting at your colleague's desk, talking on the phone, going to meetings(LOL). Do this whenever a name comes into your head about another person. If you can, draw a picture of what the actual thing might look like. This will take a lot of the edge off your fury; and humor can always be relied on to help unknot a tense situation.

im being serious, because you are being serious, some others may think otherwise ``.

[«Canadian»]

1 more, wso.williams.edu/orgs/peerh/stress/relax.html

[dAilydoSe]

Lol steve. I do the same thing when i play 1v1's thats why i dont play them much.

[«Canadian»]

when mad, sit down and watch an optical illusion(my own advice in a joke kinda..........jus click the link-_-)
www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

[BLaCK]

lol 1v1s r silly most of the time because most ppl jus wanna BM lol

[Alpha]

AHHHHHh, omg! those pink dots owned me. They disappeared too! And it wasn't until after i read the message that they disappeared.
And wierder yet, they vanished in the order that the dot progressed.
Thanks mikey.
For today, I took a shower and then watched Neo fuck some shit up in Matrix Reloaded to calm myself down.

[Alpha]

For some reason I'm more inclined to freak out when victorious opponents try to make me feel better after a brutal loss, rather then some child patronize me by BM'ing.

[dAilydoSe]

I feel the exact same way steve. I'd rather someone call me a newb then try to explain to me why i lost. Shit is frustrating.

[BLaCK]

yea jus let em call u a noob :: especially when u won :: like when they b like the only reason i lost is cuz.... man if i wudda jus.... its annoyin jus b like ok i can live with that

[dAilydoSe]

KJ UR SEXY

[BLaCK]

DD most of the time i b tryin to look like u

[dAilydoSe]

Where are ur nickerbockers and Pink golf shirt then???

[BLaCK]

NVM im good wit jus my T on

[dAilydoSe]

thought u'd say that.

[BLaCK]

i did but now im havin doubts mayb we shud jus b friends n not lovers nemore

[«Canadian»]

LOL..

[dAilydoSe]

SCRATCHY

[Leftor]

hrmmz 1v1 imo, just play to have fun and most of the time youll win, if you try to go for "winning" mindset, and ur a shaky player then ull prolly lose, justgo w/ the basics and ull own thats how i play 1v1 fpm .

[Alpha]

That might be the case in a perfect world, Ahmad, but in reality I, or others like me, might lack the hand-eye coordination to even calmly pull off the complicated recalls or timed drops necessary to win some games. It could just be a shortcoming since birth that one would have to deal with. :/