Overall, a good week, though not without its misses.
Gonna try writing these posts on a borrowed Ergodox keyboard in the hopes that it'll save my hands but right now I fear that any ergonomic gains will be undone by the immense amount of frustration I feel typing these words out at a pace slower than that of my old hunt-and-pecking fifth grade teacher. These posts will be unnaturally terse for a while, I suppose. Definitely can't write any replay review notes on this thing holy shit I hate it so much.
Anyway, Thursday was a +R day, and I ended up entering Feliz Jueves, losing to a random Kliff, and running it back all the way to 4th place. Felt like I played well overall and the regular practice is paying off. +R is a bit of a weird one for me because I don't let it take up my full effort at all; it's mostly just execution and some minor matchup study. I treat it as a supplement to my main focus on rev2, in the same way that I would practice no-gi grappling but never bothered to compete in it. So my expectations are often low, and when I do well it feels good, like I'm winning due to strong fundamentals.
Friday was Gamecenter casuals; I got to play with a bunch of our mid-level players and got some good practice time in with Sol. On Saturday I just netplayed a little +R, grinding the Anji MU vs Klaige and seeing some gains by playing at range, and cooled down with a litttle CvS2.
I did miss out on working out after Wednesday, due to heat exhaustion and vaccine booster recovery, but I think that's fine. Previously my focus was on consistent disciplined practice in order to establish strong habits, and it worked, but now I think the thing I need to get better at is paying closer attention to my energy reserves and being smarter about how much I do in a given week. I want to see growth in everything I do -- my work, my play, my writing, my body, my cooking, etc., but getting myself to a point where I can do all these things at once will require a long slow crawl of weekly efforts. Efforts like typing on this fucking piece of shit hell keyboard.
I think my weekly reflections and routine adjustments have been working out nicely, and my hands certainly welcome the reduced playing hours, but I still want to take the time to do a more concerted mind mapping exercise to deliberately structure my Rev2 Chipp. I started a neat Twine stack to map out my basic Chipp combos and oki flowchart, and while I don't actually think that the Twine UX was great for presenting the info, making the thing required me to map out a sensible flowchart which was useful in giving my thoughts some deliberate structure and clearly defining the reasons for choosing X or Y branch. One of the reasons I had a relatively easy time developing the cognitive side of BJJ is because I already understood how to think of the game itself as a complex flowchart, and my competition "game" as a subset of my BJJ knowledge, which is itself a subset of whatever the "true" BJJ map looks like. Perhaps I can think through this during my next week off; it's a bit too involved to tackle during a normal week.
Another small win: I did get a brief meditation session in. Led nicely into a nap, which I think might be good for helping me refresh after work and maintain the habit. Also got a ral good massage. I'm getting old and I gotta be nice to me, I guess.