Every action begins with an idea
Greetings, I, the Warowl greets you.
The first thing you should do when learning how to play counter strike is to work on developing a muscle memory.
Now, a lot of people message me and wonder why they can't get out of the silver ranks.
They work on the smokes, they know how to throw proper flashes,
they watch professionals play, they make an effort to really learn more about the game.
But they still get owned by a Russian P90 noob.
They haven't worked on the very basics,
they haven't taken the time to develop proper muscle memory.
Now, I attribute this to modern video games rarely even requiring muscle memory.
You could hook a fish up to Call of Duty and he'd win a game.
But I wouldn't subject such a magnificent and tasty creature to such torture.
Muscle memory isn't brains in your arms, that's stupid.
Muscle memory is term we use to describe our brain's ability to learn movement.
Our brains are fluid. They develop and strengthen connections through repetition.
Through repetition...Through repetition...Through repetition... bloop bloop badbadabdadb. :)
I'm always fascinated by the way in which our minds can adapt to any given task.
It's almost like with enough time and effort, we as humans can achieve... Anything.
Look at this. Woo
Yeh impressed yet, kids?
Try flipping the pen yourself.
I'm sure you can, you'll just do it very slowly and you have to devote your entire concentration to it
Notice how I as I am speaking to the camera, I am still able to flip the pen relatively well focussing on something completely different?
This is because I've done it sooo many times(this is the first take of this, BTW), that I don't really have to devote any concentration to it at all.
It's completely... subconscious.
It's subconscious, I could flip the pen in my sleep
We develop muscle memory through repetition.
The more you perform an action, the more your brain strengthens that connection.
This is why we as humans have to practice things, wether it be sports, video games, playing a musical instrument
typing, jacking off... Wait, scratch that last one.
And by repetition, I mean repetition. It can take tens of thousands of repetitions to really master a movement.
And depending upon how smart you are, something we call kinesthetic intelligence,
it can take less repetitions or many many more. But don't worry, you will get there, eventually.
HARD TRUTH OF LIFE #1
SOME PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY BETTER AT THINGS THAN OTHER PEOPLE. IF YOU AREN'T ONE THOSE PEOPLE, IT MEANS YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO WORK HARDER TO ACHIEVE THE SAME RESULT
HARD TRUTH OVER
Because it can take such a long time to develop muscle memory,
the best advice I can give for a prospective Counter Strike player is to be patient.
"But Warowl!", you exclaim furiously smashing your half baked YouTube comment,
"video games are for fun, I don't wanna have to put in time and effort and learn skills and be patient. I just wanna own dem newbs."
Then just play the game, you'll naturally get better at the game just by playing it.
But without proper training, you'll only reach a ceiling, a certain level and that's it.
And you'll develop some really bad habits.
Developing muscle memory works both ways- you can train your brain to do the wrong thing.
Which is as we know is a bad habit.
And it can be considerably difficult to undo a bad habit, once it's learned.
My teacher told me this long ago- "There is good practice, and there is bad practice."
And that struck me with me to this day.
I know form personal experience that bad prtactive happens when we gt impatient,
when we don't have discipline.
If you're practising headshots for hours and hours in a deathmatch,
and you zone out
and just subconsciously own noobs, that's when you'll start to develop bad habits.
When we get impatient, our brain looks for a path of least resistance.
And sometimes, that can be an easy technique like wagging the AK-47 around like a feather duster.
or buying a P90 and rushing B every round.
My advice is to set aside some time to train veryday.
whether it be counter strike, another game you're learning, or another skill altogether.
And then focus on a very specific sill that you want to train.
I believe that increasing the number of different practice sessions but having shorter practice sessions,
is far more beneficial than long-term
massive practice sessions.
Also consider that it is sometimes in our sleep that our brains actually process this information.
and strengthen the connections.
You won't see the results right away.
It may take a few days, weeks, or even a month. the time I generally give someone to develop great counter strike game is 2 months.
Because that's how long it took me. Two Months of dedicated training and i've had good aim ever since.
Have you ever practiced a skill or a game over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
to the point where when you shut your eyes, you see it?
That's the point you have to get to.
So that's what muscle memory is.
How do you develop it for Counter Strike?
Stage 1 will be in a static environment.
Or and environment where we have full control
over all of the variables so we can set it up and rill something over and over again.
In this case, I though a good practice would be going for them 'Juan Deags'.
Now, we're on a Local server, so if you want help on how to setup your own local server
to do stuff like ooooo eeee ooo voo voop,
and infinite ammo, and all that craziness,
I've a video on that, I made it a while ago,
umm, I'll put as in one of the end screen annotations
So you know, when you click on the video to go to wherever you want at the end.
So I'll put it in there if you wanna check that out, check it out.
So, as an example, we will be training 'Juan Deags'.
Coz I thought what a simpler skill than that?
One deags are, in my opinion, the best way to train your aim,
and to get going.
So what I like to do, and oh, by the way, a lot of people use custom maps,
there's a lotta them you can find on the workshop
There's maps designed for this purpose.
For training.
And they'll have like little targets pop up.
And you'll pop the little targets,.
And , uh, and you'll be able to train your aim.
But we're gonna just be using Dust 2.
Maybe in the future, we can do a video trying out all the training maps and seeing which is the best one.
Video ideas, gotta write that down.
Remind me.
So lets start
we got a blank wall, we have full control
over everything that can happen. We're safe in our nice little safe space.
Lets's put a little target on the wall. That's where we're gonna shoot.
We're gonna practice some one deags.
So I start to the side, just a tiny little correction, right?
To aim there and shoot.
Now, when you start learning a new skill and you start learning,
new muscle memory, you wanna start slow, and be able to do it.
Make sure you get it 100% of the time.
So notice I start on the side, I move in and Iclick
And then, as you do it, like more and more times,
you can speed it up a little bit.
Right?
Get our Juan deags
Add a little variety to it then. We start going from the left side.
We're doing this all very fast.
Coz I already know how to Juan Deag.
This is it, if you're just starting out, just starting to get through it.
you're gonna take a lotta time here on the wall.
Start adding a little bit more ooh oohh.
I can't hit that one.
See, i have to start slowly and then go in there.
And over time, I'll develop that muscle memory.
Now, while this is not a real environment. I am not even taking out bots or anything like that.
We're just in a completely static environment and we have full control.
over to do this
After a while you can adding some movement in there.
Just a little bit more complexity to it.
And after you're done with Stage 1, it'll take a long time, you'll be ready to move on to Stage 2.
Stage 2 is an environment you do not have control over.
In this case, it is a Valve Deathmatch server.
This is the stage where most people spend most of their time.
Now, I don't think it is necessarily beneficial to spend 90% of your time in this stage.
But, uh, the point of this stage is that you don't really have ocntrol over what's going on.
Over the Variables.
and in this case, the variables are your enemy players running around.
I have no idea where they're gonna be, where they're gonna pop out.
But I get to practice the skill that we just did, the Juan Deags, in this environment.
Very beneficial, but again, ooohh,ooohhh.
But again, i do think people spend wayy too much of their time here.
And they should spend a little bit more time inside of Stage 1.
I'm not, I mean this is probably the most beneficial without getting into and actual game.
But really, you should spend more time in stage 1m guys.
Come now.
Finally, you take your new skills to the actual conditions where you'll be using them
Stage 3 is playing a real 5v5 competitive game.
"Holy crap."
"That was the awper."
This footage is my application of our deag practice in a game that I played on my live stream.
Okay, I'll admit it, this video was just a way to show off my Deco Ace.
So that's how you play the game and get real good.
Now you have to do it.
Repetition. It takes repetition.
Counter strike is a very special game. Your character doesn't get better, you get better.
A lot of people like to say "well games are just for fun."
I think certain games are more than just passive forms of entertainment.
Everything I taught you guys today in terms of developing muscle memory is something that I learned
from playing a musical instrument. It's something that I have learned over hours and hours of practice every single day
after school my entire childhood.
It;s something that I wanted to share with you guys and hopefully help you guys improve at counter strike.
So, thank you folks very much for watching. Thank you guys so much for all the support,
I am the War Owl, and I still have no closer.