Half way through the competition camp. This time it's time to pick up the pace and start peaking as the end of the camp arrives. Today I focused on imposing my game plan and visualizing the actual match. I realized in my previous competition, I lost positions when I was letting my opponent dictate the pace of the game and letting them play their game on me. During training, I imagined my training partner to be my opponent during the actual competition. I let myself imagine that I was in the actual location of the competition. I was imagining that there was a crowd cheering on their teammates and friends. I let myself feel the spotlight on me, the adrenaline, the nerves coming up. I did really well during sparing, I was able to finish all my opponents with the same setup, which was actually my plan B finish.
I was listening to a Tim Ferriss podcast earlier with performance psychologist, Michael Gervais, {link here} that talked about visualization and I was happy that I was able to apply it. I will trying to practice more of the exercises on visualization and try to make my imagination more vivid. Will try to visit the venue for the competition a few weeks before the actual day to make my imagination have more fuel to fire up when I try to imagine myself there. I naturally have a vivid visual imagination but feel I haven't really tapped into its potential. This is sort of an experiment on how much I can achieve with this. We already know that top performers use this technique like Conor McGregor. Lets see how far it can go.
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