Losing carries more potential than winning, but only if handled properly. This chapter looks at how lost matches affect future ones and how to work with them to get the most out of the experience.
When results stop improving after a certain point, the issue is rarely effort. This chapter discusses common plateaus in competition and provides practical ways to reorganize how you go about competing.
Preparation doesn’t stop until the first grip is made at the event. This chapter covers methods used in the days, hours, and moments leading up to matches, helping you stay functional in noisy, high-pressure environments.
This chapter focuses on building long-term preparation routine with fundamental impact. Through structured exercises, you’ll develop internal stability, responsiveness, and decision-making patterns that holds under the pressure of a competition.
A step-by-step look at what changes in the brain and body during competition. Using short case studies, this chapter shows how opponents are read, risk is assessed, and the responses that drive the game are selected before conscious decisions are made.
This chapter goes through how confidence forms, how it collapses, and why it’s often misunderstood in fight contexts. You’ll learn what brain–body dynamics shape confidence, and why other factors often matter more under pressure.
This chapter maps the demands and internal mechanisms related to fight sports. You’ll review your fight-relevant features and learn how preparation changes the default settings. You also build a framework for structuring your prep work.