The curious concept of "playing poorly" 

btw if you are at all curious, i got most of these angles by holding the camera between my chest and chin -- it took a dumb amount of practice x__x

feeling this big time in chess over the past couple months. progress is non-linear, and I enjoyed the way you visualized that in your drawings here. good stuff dude.

That’s my secret cap, I’m always having an off day

Love this video and I think it promotes a healthy mindset, but I feel like sometimes its important to just realize our opponent is good too. Getting mad at yourself for not playing good is super fun and healthy (its not, this is sarcasm), but your opponent could just be doing really well that day, and our brains can't accept the fact that someone can be better than us in a video game. Saying that you're playing bad could be true, but if you're getting rolled by your opponent and not giving them any credit, maybe try to credit them; they're probably grinding everyday just like you.

This channel is wildly underrated and is revealing so much of perception and mindset with competition as a whole here. Thank you

really eye opening video in basically every skill potentially imaginable. ty so much

Excellent work!

This is amazing, your quality is outstanding bro

excellent video. been wanting someone to make this point for a long time!

Gotta watch this video 5 times in a row, as I'm playing terribly rn

ur content is sick holy shit ur channel is gonna go nuts, just keep with the great vids

DOODOO! Great video 😊 applies to life as a whole too!!

Every video you make causes me do a bit of self-analysis and I always enjoy that!

YOUR CONTENT IS ACTUALLY BEAST MODE. I PLAY TF2 COMPETITIVELY AND I THINK ABOUT THIS SHIT ALL THE TIME. THANKS FOR PUTTING INTO A CONCRETE VIDEO WHAT IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT FOR THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS

I thought this was very well done. Thank you :)

0:10 I can’t be the only person who thinks most people off the street probably would just draw a singular diagonal line going off up and right? This multi-step slope almost strikes me as an experienced-competitor kind of take on it: someone who understands that competitors don’t always feel like they’re on an upwards slope.

Incredible video. Please do more

Love this. I watched Mango kick Ludwig's arse with Bowser a few days ago but Ludwig was consistently pulling off some fox tech that Mango just can't do, despite being demonstrably better with fox.

your videos are secret gems man

its def hard to break out of the monolithic thinking of our play when the scene encourages us to compare ourselves to others constantly... there should be a place for placements and the 'sports fanatic' side (i do love gambling channel points) but its really unproductive for people actively trying to work on their skills. there was a period of time in NE when results from every local were being posted on our big FB page and i think a lot of us recognize it wasnt a good idea in hindsight (not to anyones fault, i think we all thought it'd be a good idea). def put a microscope on people's shortcomings, and a lot of comments about devaluing wins/loses due to circumstances outside the game started emerging. people stopped attending because it became a bad environment to work on your gameplay while also being devalued even if you had a good performance. that being said, the present scene seems to be correcting a lot of those mistakes i guess what im tryna say is that its much easier to hold an L & move on with an improvement mindset when you're not constantly reminded of the L, whether it be on a fb page, twitter or by yourself ruminating on it. i could keep typing but maybe for another day lol

New video drop heck yeah

+1 for Vanilla

Pls don't stop making vids ty

Really good video homie

Fantastic video

Perfect video with relevance far beyond smash or even gaming. There is something here for anybody trying to get better at something.

Every video gets me looking at myself in the mirror. My man never miss.

Your content is next level my guy. Love it. Now if only I could apply it properly in game instead of nodding along to the video before running back into the wall face first haha

Good stuff

you're so fuckin sick i love the handwriting shots

Dorwin will youu sire my progeny?

this video gives me the urge to bully you

swag

anudda great video

nice

As usual, most of this is not specific to smash. Great vid!

every1 will hav dere ups n downs, it's inevitable but da best players r da ones where dere C games r good enough to take on other's A games :) jus gotta keep grinding to get dere!

random people understand graphs

great video! it could be even better if you work on enunciating sentences a little more carefully, as opposed to how you would speak naturally like in this video! i'm ready for more of your content