The Importance of Warmup in osu! 

main reason I warm up: My laptop lags when I begin my first beatmap after opening it up

> Played 1⭐ EZ/HT for warmup... > OK, now I'm ready for 10⭐! 🌚

0:12 „imprtance“

Thank you! My girlfriend will be so happy after this stretching routine.

I swear, KoiFishu you are a god. literally I was trying to find out why one day I did so well in this one beatmap and next day not doing as well. And by following this and I FC’d the whole song and got my first 100pp play. Thank you

ok but why are you actually one of the most underrated osu youtubers out there this content is amazing keep it up proud of ya

i usually just cry and then play osu, best warm up

Not warmup but also important: take breaks!!! You'll be suprised how much a refreshed patience will do for you in this game. Most of my FC's are the first attempt back from a break. Granted, all low-level plays but still 🤷🏻‍♂️

Honestly also don't play when you're tired cause you'll be really grumpy and your senses and reading will be numbed from the lack of alertness. Some people even have naps so yeah

I agree, stretches are important for your hands, otherwise it hurts

also, overstretching just before playing can be bad too, just dont do more than needed

Dont forget to take breaks too, it is really important because it can strain your body

KoiFishu: Importance of Warmup KoiFishu on stream: I deleted my warmup collection

I'm impressed with the quality of your videos, I've been watching for a few months and for such a smol channel you do amazing stuff and content, your editing is awesome too

The stretches really help with mania. Whenever i play a hard map i don't feel like my hands are gonna fall off

Oh yea dont forget to do pushup for warmup THEN U CAN HIT THOSE 7 ⭐️ JUMPS IT ALWAYS ON WARMUPS

I got chat banned because of “in appropriate avatar”

Thanks for the advice and things, going to try and get back into the game as I've been watching a lot of videos. Hopefully I won't be too disappointed by how much my skills have fallen, but as you and others have said, a positive mindset also helps.

also about the streamers not warming up, a lot of them do they just don't stream it and sometimes even do it offline. sources: some smaller streamers said they don't like to stream their warmup because it's "boring" to watch and stuff, and also tracking some players' playing patterns and streaming (not the notes, i mean on twitch) patterns.

I'm literally unable to do the stretching at 4:45 is osu actually just genetics

Thank you so much for this video. I really really appreciate you.

Don’t play in a cold room, or at least a room where you can feel the cold. Your muscles don’t feel as flexible in the cold, and if you’re in a warm room, your muscles lose the tenacity they’d have in a cold room. If you want a cold room to play in anyway, wash your hands with hot water. That loosens up the tensity of your hands and helps prevent finger lock.

Did anybody see the middle finger he made? xD

Exactly what i needed.

"Placebo is helpful" *Cue glasses company starting their ad with a drawing winking exactly on cue*

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this was actually rather informative.

Definitely some good and important advice in here! But for me the question still remains: What's the difference between warmup and just playing any map? I suppose the stream comp or practice packs that actually increase in speed etc over time are literal warmup maps. But other than that, what's the difference between just playing random maps that you feel like or F2, and "properly warming up"?

I saw this thumbnail and I didn’t warm up yesterday when playing and now my left wrist hurts

uhhh i remembered someone saying you can break the ligaments in your thumb by doing the stretch in 5:00 ... just don't quickly whip your hand doing any of these stretches...

welcome to osu!

I can see at my "rank-curve" when I was in a good mood and when not lol

How i warm-up: 1.) Don’t know what maps to use to warm-up 2,) start playing and get strained 3.) take a break for an hour 4.) repeat from step 2 until... 5.) sleep

Whenever I play the base of my thumb starts to hurt and my tremors get in the way sometimes, but I'm still aiming to FC Raccoon city hard

happy to see you mention stretching is more of a "do it because it does nothing negative/feels good" not "stretching is 100% proven to prevent injury". stretching probably won't do anything bad, might be beneficial, but can also potentially waste your time especially if you're low on it - rather spend that time playing if you can only play for an hour for example

to boost my confidence i usually just tell myself that i will finish this map today no matter what

*watches video* *FC's centipede* ok

well i did a little bit of stretching before playing consist of wrist, middle finger and thumb (thanks koifishu), tried to lessen the force or pressure on both my whole arm and let it be in rest state. I usually do jumps as warmups, squares and random jump patterns are my go to everyday. Since i usually play tvsize maps or 2-3min maps with HR, seems like i need enough rest to reqlly be able to play better. Also, drink more water, it helps keep you hydrated and better your mood. Everytime i get shakes, take rest between maps and drink more water. FC? drink water. Choke new top play? drink water. It helps to reduce stress and by far I barely even rage despite choking on slider back to back and getting the same acc.

When I play multi I always aim to take first place and it help me put my thinking into the positive side and I actually play better than some of the higher rank player than me

only one problem i had already is right hand and wrist pain because I hold the stylus firmly to have a better acc

Not the hero we deserve but the hero we needed.

i love how that levi guy has a name from an anime

I watched this Vid, made my warmup and just got my first 300pp play today. Very Nice

now to train

my warmup: 1. 1 min spinner 2. 10 min 9.1cs maps 3. 10 min squares 4. still not warmed up lol

I’ve strained myself so much that I’ve became immune

I once hopped on and fc’d the 6* snow drive map. Yeah couldn’t play anything else after wards because my hands where all shaky.

Vggggttt is the weekend I wann

My highest star fc is 5.8 and when im not warmed up I cant fc a 4 star with EZ because of misaiming, its actually insane

Him: osu Captions: Oh sue

i will incorporate stretches because im afraid of rsi and carpal tunnel

On Jah, I think being confident helps you in this game (and many others) like how when hugofrost got his first 700pp, he can now easily get 600pp because of how he became confident from his first 700pp.

I usually warmup starting at a 3 star NC HD move to a 4.5 star map and im good to go for some good plays

The 9 dislikes are people who entered here to train their aim and missed the like button.

Instructions unclear, started warming up my pc with a heat gun. It started getting cold

it's the skin with the blue cursor on your description ? i want to try it :) thanks

Osu!mania player here

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Can I just chop off the fingers I don't use

The key is to be always warming up and never playing.

6:17 for a split second, I thought I saw a middle finger

I never warm up because for some reason my top plays are all my first plays of the day, e.g. my near-7* fc (1miss) was my first play of the day. After that, it's all downhill. Either way, I do admit it may or may not have been a bad idea not to heat my hands before playing seriously because OW TYPING HURTS

Would it be worth doing a proper full body warmup so that I feel more alert? It takes me about 20 minutes to really got focused enough to do anything properly.

first slow ur play speed to 0.25 then click on the timestamp 6:17

0:01 Holy crap its Mafumafu

my best plays are my warmup maps at 4am

Got pains in my hands, ouch

My mindset is pretty gloomy but i see myself improve at this rate

Out of the 5 years of osu of eyes burnt red and broken hands no fingers I finally see a warm up thing xD comedy I'll try this when I start playing osu again

everything else works for me but be positive my luck fucked me bad

jump? A fool moon night stream? we luv lama for some shit part? Tengaku for the slider break? A-L-I-E-N become cookiezi? Centipede Hotel? Trivago

My warmup is 6 star map (I cant pass it and will retry until i give up)

when i dont play osu for one day, feel like i never play it

6:17 lmfao

I have a really high dpi on my mouse (about 1cm^2 to cover the whole screen) so my right arm never hurts, but my left hand, oh boy

how do you get that light pattern on your sakura keyboard?

is finger locking where u can't control a joint and it's stuck and ur trying to release or press but you won't that happens to my thumb and pinky but i play with my middle and ring finger so weird, my play style is my mouse is at the bottom of my desk near the edge and my thumb is on the right indent side, my pinky is on the left indent side, then my hand and mouse hang at the bottom of the desk and my cursor is in the middle so i can easily aim to all 4 corners of my screen without moving my mouse more then 4 inches from the bottom of the desk edge

Not sure if it's due to mindblock or those streches really helped, but I just got fastest fingers in my career and just passed this hard stream map I couldn't pass last 60 tries... x...d... My gf looked at me weardly though... not sure what she's thinking about...

I finally beat the 4* sound chimera, and I didnt even warm up ;D Nice Now I know that I suck, but I just like having fun in the game. I dont really want to improve so I dont care about ss-ing 4*s or anything. So I have low acc and play things other than pp farm maps, but I do warmup usually because well the concept of the video

Warming up takes several hours for me. Pretty annoying

well after finishing my warmup *my mom tells me to stop playing*

That is exactly why i don't warm up. It is just not in my style. I want to play osu! because i want to play the beatmap, listen to music. Of course i am training, but i feel more like just play and watch your self grow.

you don't need to warm up if you play 24 hours

the practice packs. its a like to a user. where do i go after?

I play a 7* for warmup with ht

so i play 3 star maps to warm up and to get more into faster stuff i play dt and surch for 3 star maps but i cant pass anything thats over ar7 with dt so i play a few 3* maps normal then 3-5 dt3* and then im going to the maps where i am training right now its 4 stars i also think if i would be able to play 5 star maps i would play 4* and dt4* to warm up but idk since im not there right now...

Well considering I do osu in my break time from drawing I have long time of warm up, a 9 hour long of warm up. XDD

Bruh i can play for 6 hours and still have sore wrists and tappy fingies. And still be in pain at random moments

So if I use osu to warmup for other games should I warm up for osu to warm up for other games to then warm up in them again to then play the game?

Here after i got CTS

Oh sue

The reason why I am so mad when I play Osu is because my pc is a sh#$t and I have 11 ms :()

Tbh the best way to feel confident is to never ever watch youtube videos one osu especially tutorial ones, also try to not watch top play of of other people everyone is different and don’t look at their scores either

"os" is correct version if I remember

I was wondering what tablet he is using during a stream anyone know?

i cant play for more than 30 minutes or i get rusty

0:12 u miss the O

Is it just me or does Koi look like Luke from professor layton in this video...

Dragging the video out to reach the 10 minute mark xD

im building my collections for warmup as i find the maps around my star level (between 3.8-5.5*) and i have them split into different categories (collections) jump speed low ar DT maps/high ar maps tech stream (includes like burst stream, death stream, and split triples for alternate training {i play full alt}) i still need more collections to practice weird things like star patterns, slider jumps, overlapping jumps, etc i also have a collection called "deep warmup" which is for when my hands are LITERALLY cold, or for when i haven't played for a while, which just has balanced maps (short streams, some tech, some triples, some jumps) and then i have like "EXTREME training" which is maps that i've passed with like a C,D or B and are like way way above my skill level a tricky map that i recommend since you're here is Drunkenstein-bors insane diff i hate it sooo much, but it's because it challenges me so hard.