Psychology for sure plays an important role in performance, driving your intent in situations. But even if your mind and intent are in the right place, the outcome is still limited by your physical capability. The more you increase your actual capability to respond, naturally your confidence to respond increases. Actually it’s not confidence if you know you have the capability, it’s more clarity/certainty. If you drive up just confidence without capability, it’s a false confidence. So we focus on capability first and have found consistently that more enhanced capability automatically improves psychological performance state. Thanks for your comment!
@@athleticengine I'm not sure where your at in your spiritual journey young man. However I'd like to share with you a group of prayer warriors I've been enjoying here on TH-cam. Check out "Grace For Purpose and Grace For Purpose Prayers" I hope they can serve you well in your spiritual journey. BTW I grew up with Dobermans and can relate to what your teaching us. I use to rough house with them. They were a ton of fun😊
That is a big question. There are many aspects to this process. To use a simple analogy, the responsiveness of your smartphone depends on the hardware AND the software. The whole process we refer to as “Athletic Engineering” is essentially to develop and enhance both, to become more responsive. Responsiveness is your ability to respond (to any situation). Here is a clue for you. If you can’t perceive a situation clearly, then your chances of responding successfully are not high (to use the analogy from above, if Siri doesn’t understand what you asked for, she won’t give you the correct answer even if she knows the correct answer because she couldn’t decode the question properly). To be more responsive you need to enhance your perception to be able to sense clearly what you’re responding to. Perception is one thing. Capability is another. Both are very important for responsiveness. For perception, the condition of your spine is the most important thing. This is an area many athletes either neglect completely or simply don’t know how to train. Your spine is the whole communication network for your body - your perception is handled there. Every day it needs to be ‘stretched’ and moved. The less flexible and maneuverable your spine is, the more you lose your ability to ‘communicate’ (i.e. respond). If you’re an athlete and you don’t take proper care of your spine, you’re missing a lot in your training. As I said your question is far too big to address in a TH-cam comment but I’ve given you some useful clues. The whole process we use to train (engineer) an athlete is to make them very finely tuned and naturally highly responsive. It’s like taking a dog that might be strong, might be fast, but doesn’t understand a lot of commands and barks and reacts to everything while wasting a lot of energy, and training it to become a highly trained police dog who can understand and follow commands instantly with speed and precision, and even knows what to do intuitively without commands. An efficiently responsive athlete will outperform an inefficiently reactive one, and waste less energy / risk less injury doing it.
@@athleticengine your channel is great so are your replies to viewers questions. When I was 15, I trained how to perfectly execute 6 pirouettes on pointe to the right, and 3 to the left. It was through astute awareness of my core, my spine, and my eyes having keen focus. Yet, if a spider appears out of no where, my response is to scream before I even can even register that it’s a spider. No training in athletic engineering can change this instinctual response from me. No amount of confidence or awareness either can stop me from screaming in fear when a spider appears next to me. It’s automatic. The code in my program is written that way and there seems to be no way to over ride it.
@@Menstrala It’s up to you. I just wanted to answer it more for myself to see how I would answer it. Check if there’s any typos if you do paste the reply… I checked quickly but it’s easy to miss when typing on my phone. Thanks for your comment. Fear is psychological - it’s either rooted in your memory or in your imagination. Both are in your mind and neither have anything to do with reality. It’s one thing to be aware of potential physical danger/threat and respond consciously when it’s present, but it’s another to react compulsively/irrationally out of fear that exists only in your memory or imagination (which of course also produces a physiological reaction). Whether this is applied to sport psychology or something like fear of a spider, it’s the same thing. If it’s a poisonous spider that bites, that’s one thing and requires a different response (screaming still won’t help). If it’s just in your head, that’s a different matter. Essentially you have to root yourself in reality and not live in your head - the number one problem of today’s human being. The difference between an athlete like Michael Jordan, who is known as a clutch player, and a regular athlete who gets rattled under pressure, is that an athlete like Jordan is more rooted in reality while playing whereas someone whose performance is more dependent on the “pressure” of the situation is rooted in their head and too easily distracted. It’s contextual. You may be able to stay rooted in reality when doing a pirouette for whatever reason, but when a spider appears you become a psychological case. The trick is to practice staying rooted in reality. Your mind can play a lot of tricks on you. The way I see it, fear stems from the desire to avoid unpleasantness. Either you can already have a LEARNED unpleasant association with something that you’re afraid to experience (like a spider for example, or for otherS it might just be rejection, or disapproval, or snakes, or loud noises), or you can just be afraid of the UNCERTAINTY of a situation (what will happen if the spider crawls on me? What will happen if I miss the shot? What will happen if….). I think anything learned and be un-learned/overwritten, and the uncertainty thing can be addressed by confronting the unknown. I used to be afraid of dogs when I was younger. Now I have two dogs, one is a large German shepherd, and I have zero irrational fear of dogs now because I understand them more now and have been around them more. That’s my two cents. I think there’s hope for you with the spiders. 👍🏽
Thanks for your answer. I haven’t heard clutch player. Remember Chris Evert and Bjorn Borg? They remind me of first responders, they stay cool. You are relaxed with the ball (enough to anticipate it and let your trained reflexes take over the ball), there is no fear if there’s nothing to be afraid of. So, how to train the mind not to be flustered and to act cool under pressure. Maybe keeping cool is a natural born trait? I’m not sure, but I will experiment on ways to reprogram my reaction to arachnids, since not all are poisonous and dangerous. The spider archetype sure is a loaded one. Thanks again for your all your video instructions.
Bruv I respect ur process. I see where ur coming from. I’m new to ur videos… are u… self taught? I’m asking u got that Bruce Lee vibe (thats a good thing) this is also a response to ur dog vid. Peace from down under eh.
Yes self taught is a good way to put it. Learned valuable things from many different sources that I respect over many years, but through my own practice interpreting and acquiring new knowledge and skills and always keeping open to new growth. Much appreciated comment, thank you. 🙏🏽 👊🏽
Yes, it is muscle reflexes! So athletic training should maximize the function of the reflexes, or responsiveness. We try to educate that it’s not only about strength, range of motion, etc that training usually focuses on. Perception, coordination, sense of timing/rhythm, etc can and should be major focus areas of development for an athlete. A narrow approach that is too strength-biased can impede the responsiveness and natural reflexes requires to maximize athletic performance. Thanks for your comment. 👍🏽
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Being Confident. Is maybe the most important for responsiveness
Psychology for sure plays an important role in performance, driving your intent in situations. But even if your mind and intent are in the right place, the outcome is still limited by your physical capability. The more you increase your actual capability to respond, naturally your confidence to respond increases. Actually it’s not confidence if you know you have the capability, it’s more clarity/certainty. If you drive up just confidence without capability, it’s a false confidence. So we focus on capability first and have found consistently that more enhanced capability automatically improves psychological performance state. Thanks for your comment!
@@athleticengine excellent
Young man, I'm proud of you for being a positive influence and an added asset to your community. Our community's need more roll models like you.
Thank you for your comment, I appreciate your positive words of encouragement. 🙏🏽
@@athleticengine
I'm not sure where your at in your spiritual journey young man. However I'd like to share with you a group of prayer warriors I've been enjoying here on TH-cam. Check out "Grace For Purpose and Grace For Purpose Prayers" I hope they can serve you well in your spiritual journey.
BTW I grew up with Dobermans and can relate to what your teaching us. I use to rough house with them. They were a ton of fun😊
@@tazzywazzy7599 im not sure if he is of a spiritual nature like maybe you are ,but hes definitely good thats for sure ......
thx man just what i needed to hear
👍 thanks for watching
And how should we train responsiveness???
That is a big question. There are many aspects to this process. To use a simple analogy, the responsiveness of your smartphone depends on the hardware AND the software. The whole process we refer to as “Athletic Engineering” is essentially to develop and enhance both, to become more responsive.
Responsiveness is your ability to respond (to any situation). Here is a clue for you. If you can’t perceive a situation clearly, then your chances of responding successfully are not high (to use the analogy from above, if Siri doesn’t understand what you asked for, she won’t give you the correct answer even if she knows the correct answer because she couldn’t decode the question properly). To be more responsive you need to enhance your perception to be able to sense clearly what you’re responding to. Perception is one thing. Capability is another. Both are very important for responsiveness.
For perception, the condition of your spine is the most important thing. This is an area many athletes either neglect completely or simply don’t know how to train. Your spine is the whole communication network for your body - your perception is handled there. Every day it needs to be ‘stretched’ and moved. The less flexible and maneuverable your spine is, the more you lose your ability to ‘communicate’ (i.e. respond). If you’re an athlete and you don’t take proper care of your spine, you’re missing a lot in your training.
As I said your question is far too big to address in a TH-cam comment but I’ve given you some useful clues. The whole process we use to train (engineer) an athlete is to make them very finely tuned and naturally highly responsive. It’s like taking a dog that might be strong, might be fast, but doesn’t understand a lot of commands and barks and reacts to everything while wasting a lot of energy, and training it to become a highly trained police dog who can understand and follow commands instantly with speed and precision, and even knows what to do intuitively without commands. An efficiently responsive athlete will outperform an inefficiently reactive one, and waste less energy / risk less injury doing it.
@@athleticengine your channel is great so are your replies to viewers questions. When I was 15, I trained how to perfectly execute 6 pirouettes on pointe to the right, and 3 to the left. It was through astute awareness of my core, my spine, and my eyes having keen focus. Yet, if a spider appears out of no where, my response is to scream before I even can even register that it’s a spider. No training in athletic engineering can change this instinctual response from me. No amount of confidence or awareness either can stop me from screaming in fear when a spider appears next to me. It’s automatic. The code in my program is written that way and there seems to be no way to over ride it.
@@Menstrala It’s up to you. I just wanted to answer it more for myself to see how I would answer it. Check if there’s any typos if you do paste the reply… I checked quickly but it’s easy to miss when typing on my phone.
Thanks for your comment. Fear is psychological - it’s either rooted in your memory or in your imagination. Both are in your mind and neither have anything to do with reality. It’s one thing to be aware of potential physical danger/threat and respond consciously when it’s present, but it’s another to react compulsively/irrationally out of fear that exists only in your memory or imagination (which of course also produces a physiological reaction). Whether this is applied to sport psychology or something like fear of a spider, it’s the same thing. If it’s a poisonous spider that bites, that’s one thing and requires a different response (screaming still won’t help). If it’s just in your head, that’s a different matter. Essentially you have to root yourself in reality and not live in your head - the number one problem of today’s human being. The difference between an athlete like Michael Jordan, who is known as a clutch player, and a regular athlete who gets rattled under pressure, is that an athlete like Jordan is more rooted in reality while playing whereas someone whose performance is more dependent on the “pressure” of the situation is rooted in their head and too easily distracted. It’s contextual. You may be able to stay rooted in reality when doing a pirouette for whatever reason, but when a spider appears you become a psychological case. The trick is to practice staying rooted in reality. Your mind can play a lot of tricks on you. The way I see it, fear stems from the desire to avoid unpleasantness. Either you can already have a LEARNED unpleasant association with something that you’re afraid to experience (like a spider for example, or for otherS it might just be rejection, or disapproval, or snakes, or loud noises), or you can just be afraid of the UNCERTAINTY of a situation (what will happen if the spider crawls on me? What will happen if I miss the shot? What will happen if….). I think anything learned and be un-learned/overwritten, and the uncertainty thing can be addressed by confronting the unknown. I used to be afraid of dogs when I was younger. Now I have two dogs, one is a large German shepherd, and I have zero irrational fear of dogs now because I understand them more now and have been around them more. That’s my two cents. I think there’s hope for you with the spiders. 👍🏽
Thanks for your answer. I haven’t heard clutch player. Remember Chris Evert and Bjorn Borg? They remind me of first responders, they stay cool. You are relaxed with the ball (enough to anticipate it and let your trained reflexes take over the ball), there is no fear if there’s nothing to be afraid of. So, how to train the mind not to be flustered and to act cool under pressure. Maybe keeping cool is a natural born trait? I’m not sure, but I will experiment on ways to reprogram my reaction to arachnids, since not all are poisonous and dangerous. The spider archetype sure is a loaded one. Thanks again for your all your video instructions.
Bruv I respect ur process. I see where ur coming from. I’m new to ur videos… are u… self taught? I’m asking u got that Bruce Lee vibe (thats a good thing) this is also a response to ur dog vid. Peace from down under eh.
Yes self taught is a good way to put it. Learned valuable things from many different sources that I respect over many years, but through my own practice interpreting and acquiring new knowledge and skills and always keeping open to new growth. Much appreciated comment, thank you. 🙏🏽 👊🏽
@@athleticengine sweet as. I’ll be watching more of ur stuff and will let ya know
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It is muscle reflexes in short
Yes, it is muscle reflexes! So athletic training should maximize the function of the reflexes, or responsiveness. We try to educate that it’s not only about strength, range of motion, etc that training usually focuses on. Perception, coordination, sense of timing/rhythm, etc can and should be major focus areas of development for an athlete. A narrow approach that is too strength-biased can impede the responsiveness and natural reflexes requires to maximize athletic performance. Thanks for your comment. 👍🏽