Juri anon report day 4
I think I should clarify the ideas expressed earlier: as I said earlier, pain is a good way to open up neuroplasticity, but pain is just one of many keys.
The real key is absolute, true desire to improve. This is not empty babble:
Desire to escape pain is one of the ways to trigger this feeling , but you can also trigger it with hunger or desperation.
I can even back this up with science
https://youtu.be/hx3U64IXFOY?t=2420Basically neuroplasticity is more or less closed on adults UNLESS they need to learn something to SURVIVE.
This is actually why people in E sports burn out so fast, not because of reaction time (which is important but not as important): kids learn anything and have hunger to succeeded, a 25 year old either already made it or gave up on life if he has been playing for 10 years.
This is why Daigo hasnt won big since the SFIV days: he no longer hungers victory as he used to. He has gotten what he wanted. He is still very strong, but he doesnt learn as fast , and tournaments ft2 are basically knowledge check after knowledge check.
So to get results you dont have to embrace "psycho power" like me, but in order to improve learn to do anything as if your life is on the line, convince your self your life is on the line. This for fightin games, and anything else.
As for the training itself, today I am practicing perfect parry.
I normally do the ice bath on my feet but today out of curiosity I sumerged one hand on the ice bucket and parried with the other one. IT was EXTREMELY painful, probably because I already got used to cold on my feet, probably because the hand has more nerves. So painful I in fact couldn't hold it and had to take them out, thing I never had to do with my feet.
Which was good, cause what come next was PURE PLASTICITY.
A simple game: fail a parry, hand goes in the ice water. Hand cant go out until a parry. I bitched out a couple times because it hurt so much but damn the parry rate SKYROCKETED after the fear kicked in. Suddenly popping in one after the other and I told myself during it that is was some damn neuroplasticity indeed.
I think I told you guys this story but about a month ago a friend challenged me in the hub and I absolutely wrecked him. He started bitching about modern controls but the guy was a goddamn diamond 1 in the first place he had no chance. As the battle went and he keep ranting I simply thought: this is the power my sacrifice has given to me. You are losing because simply you were not as willing to go as far as I did. Now, taste defeat.
When I defeat Menard, it will be simply because he wasnt willing to go as far as I did. He is still fat for example and losing weight will clearly boost him because of how the brain works. He isnt even as strong as he could be and spent an unreasonable amount of time crying on twitter, he has always been sort of a dick.
This is why he will lose. This is why I will win. No matter how long it takes, I will stand victorious, simply because I want to beat him more than he wants to beat me
