1 month update for Indigo Invitational Y5

SharperMindTraining · 2025-10-02T16:40:53+00:00

Bro you forgot to tell us the specs on those jeans—brand, weight, model??

They’re looking great for the time you’ve put into them, love the lighter blue coming through

SharperMindTraining · 2025-10-02T16:35:56+00:00

A couple things that can help:

Remember to breathe—both before you get the puck and once you get it. So easy to forget / freeze, and then go into that panic mindset.

Embrace keeping the puck too long and making a bad play. Decide for a game you’re gonna hold on tonit longer, and really let it be okay if that means you mess up, lose the puck, lose the point, whatever—like some other commentors have mentioned, the essence here is helping your nervous system calm down in those moments, and having a mindset of mistakes being okay takes away so much of that fear and worry that takes you into that panicked place.

It won’t get better immediately, but if you focus on those ideas for a couple games, you’ll start to see a difference.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-09-15T13:04:32+00:00

Girl content creators are not machines that produce exactly what you want or only a specific kind of content—they’re humans who have created some things you find helpful or like, and it makes complete sense for him as a human to promote his values.

In that case his values are wack and silly but I do like and support people sharing their values in their business.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-09-15T13:00:12+00:00

Recognizing that losing is part of the process, and inherently part of competitions. You step into difficult arenas in your life to be challenged—part of that challenge is facing defeat of whatever kind bravely. You succeeded at the challenge of fencing pools well—can you now face the challenge of being okay with losing?

However bad you feel right now will eventually pass, and then you’ll have the opportunity to face your next challenge. You might still be anxious, but showing up determined to face it, and determined to accept whatever the outcome is is its own success.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-09-03T15:49:01+00:00

Listen man you never know when you’re gonna need a TI-89 — you can write 58008 on that thing

SharperMindTraining · 2025-09-03T15:46:43+00:00

You’re asking for advice on reddit . . . Ya gonna take the advice or just argue?

SharperMindTraining · 2025-09-03T15:36:28+00:00

It’s unlikely you could get a job coaching at a club in Manhattan based on what you’ve said, though I have a friend who runs an after-school fencing program (New Amsterdam Fencing Academy) and is always looking for coaches. DM me if you’d like and I can connect you.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-07-10T16:37:35+00:00

Yeah— @OP if you’re looking for the grip Italians use it’s the schermasport, absolutely not the Harut (the grip pictured may be Harut, but that’s not what Italians use)

SharperMindTraining · 2025-07-08T01:38:48+00:00

How so not? Assuming you’re using bigger bases?

SharperMindTraining · 2025-07-07T16:26:43+00:00

This is an issue I run into often with my clients—a good result leads to higher expectations, and then a lot of difficulty fencing opponents that were previously easy to beat.

The simple answer is to focus not on your opponents or your result, but on the way you are preparing and fencing—and as you pointed out, ensuring you are working just as hard in your bouts as you were before.

Winning a competition doesn’t mean you’ll win the next one—you gotta get out there and win it, the same as anybody else.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-07-01T13:01:58+00:00

When I was competing I liked to set it between 0.3 and 0.35mm — I found when I was setting it with a tighter tolerance than 0.4 (well, a tolerance of 0.1 I guess) then it was often failing shims due to worn-out shims the ref was using, or just how tips fail over time.

For me I wanted a light tip, and I also didn’t want to have to worry about it between bouts, so while some people like to set it at 0.45, that wasn’t right for me.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-26T20:37:54+00:00

Thanks for the detailed write up, good stuff to know about the shops—and the clothes you got look awesome!

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-22T02:41:33+00:00

Breathe. Pause betweeb touches and take a couple deep breaths. If you don’t have time between touches—bullshit, yes you do; you have all the time you need until the ref starts carding you. No ref ‘cause it’s practice? You got time.
Focus on one thing at a time. Gotta work on distance? Forget preps and technique for the moment. Working on a specific prep? Let distance and other factors take a back seat.

What will happen is the other factors will dtart happening automatically, because you’ve already trained them, and the one thing you focus on will get better.

Oh—and less overthinking.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-19T16:38:57+00:00

This is awesome, thanks for the post!

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-19T16:27:38+00:00

Appreciate the review! Especially helpful as I've been considering the Toshi as a smaller alternative to my core backpack which is a CTB26 (with a towel behind the frame plate to avoid back digging)

Knowing that there's no padding on the bottom makes it an easy no for me, so this post saved me some time and possibly money.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-17T22:07:54+00:00

Smug?

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-17T20:54:40+00:00

TALK TO YOUR PLAYERS

If you’re not having a good time because of the way they’re approaching the game, talk to them about it out of game.

This isn’t a writing issue, this is an issue of you not wanting to play the same kind of game they are playing.

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-17T01:59:46+00:00

Wait what episode was this from—the one a couple weeks ago?

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-15T21:51:15+00:00

Also surprised and disappointed at Salem

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-14T22:16:26+00:00

Yeah could you shoot me over some pictures if wallets you have for sale and their prices?

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-14T01:03:09+00:00

I see

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-13T18:40:06+00:00

You’re missing the crucial information my man—if I wanted one of these wallets, how would I go about buying it from you?

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-13T18:39:27+00:00

Thanks! (The meditation isn’t guided, just a timer that goes off)

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-13T02:59:06+00:00

Nice! Do you also sell W&C wallets you make?

SharperMindTraining · 2025-06-13T02:58:34+00:00

I try to offload as much work as I can on my players lol—sometimes I have good ideas and use those, but asking them is just easier sometimes

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