To truly kick off the training plan, we'll be diving deep into helping you develop separate mindsets when playing for improvement and playing to compete. If I had to give a brief summary on what I mean by this, I would have to describe it as such: Being able to switch between focusing on yourself and your opponent while you're playing, and what each of those sides of the coin entail.

Building off of the concepts proposed in the previous lesson, we'll now focus on learning how to fully take control of your gameplay. Being able to suppress your own habits, good or bad, and think for yourself with a free and open mind is essential to growing as a player at the top echelon.

Moving on to the 2nd installment of the high level fundamentals you'll be learning, the focus will turn towards dodges, specifically the act of reading and punishing them. What does it really mean to read and/or punish a dodge, and when should you do one or the other? What are good mental methods of keeping track of your opponents habits? We'll be answering these questions and more.

Relying on all of the skills we've developed up until this point, we'll begin on the first of 2 installments of learning actual fundamentals of high level gameplay. Not only will you learn the true meaning of pressure, but the intricacies behind controlling the game with your own pressure, as well as learning how to deal with the pressuring of your opponent. How do you take command over the flow of the match, and what should you do when your opponent is the one in command?

We'll sit down and spend some time reviewing your gameplay just like how we did in the introductory lesson. I'll create a thorough summary on your gameplay. Things that will be included are where you started vs where you currently are, what you have learned, and what paths you should go down to further your improvement as a player. I'll be trying my best here to set you up for future success in learning even without the help of coaching.

What even is "flow state"? What does it mean to the competitive scene? How is it important to the current meta and pro players? How is it being utilized in the pro scene? How can you learn to achieve flow state? These are the kinds of topics we'll be exploring in this lesson. This lesson will be primarily on the general topic of continuing to develop your competition mindset.

To finish out the bulk of the training plan, we'll discover an entirely new way of viewing the game. By dividing the game into 2 separate areas, those being the zones of reactability, you can learn how to maximize the things within your control and minimize the things that aren't. Truly taking advantage of this mindset is an incredibly difficult skill to learn, but a valuable one nonetheless.