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"Seek the answer with your hands. Don't think about it, feel it." ~ Bagger Vance

Do you ever have moments where you suddenly have a huge lapse of hidden potential just leap out of you? Where suddenly you gain some sort of mental state which unleashes a whole new level of skill/play?

I do sometimes and I always wonder if I could be like that all the time. Though that seems kinda unlikely. Whenever I have these moments, something happens that triggers it.

Such as being sleep deprived... yes, being sleep deprived makes me better at some things. Way better. In that moment, my mind becomes empty. The only thing going on in my head is the task ahead of me... So my focus, while seemingly non-existent, is merely one dimensional. But not only that, I'm also never hit by nerves when I'm like that either. I'm so aloof to everything that of course I'm not hahaha. I think that helps too. In that moment, I'm more like a computer. Thinking 1 dimensionally and without any sort of hesitation.

There are also more specific triggers as well. And I've had one of these moments twice just this week.

A couple days ago I went bowling with some friends... and the fact is I don't really bowl ever. It's pretty rare I do so I'm awfully "meh" at the game. But one of my friends gave me advice and told me aim for the lines on the run. Well I tried it and something was off... I looked at the middle line close to me trying to aim for it. But something was off. Maybe it was the lighting, but it didn't look like the middle line close to me wasn't the same as the middle line near the pins. It didn't look like it connect... but then I remembered a quote from a movie. From none other than Ben Kenobi. Yes, this sounds like the dorkiest thing ever, but I seriously got that quote in my head... "Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them."

Hahahaha! I'm not even kidding. But you know what, I actually did it and I near perfectly ran it down that line and got a strike. Hehehe, I was so proud of my nerdtastic accomplishment lol. All my friends laughed when I told them what happened.

I did it again just today. I recently watched the movie Serenity... and had a particular quote I really liked hehe. I was finally able to use good internet and decided to play a couple casual Melty Blood matches online. I was playing against a player who normally beats me pretty hard... but not today my good friends. Not today. He was being kind of an arrogant douche online and literally challenged me to a duel thinking I wouldn't accept. But I did... and you know what I said before we began?

"I am a leaf on the wind. Watch me as I soar." That may sound cheesy, but it was so epic. I FELT epic haha. I started winning so hard I got a couple perfects. I truly was a leaf. Uncatchable and unpredictable. I was in complete control of the match.

I don't mean to sound like I'm bragging... it's just really interesting when suddenly putting yourself in a certain mind set helps you improve dramatically.

...I just wish I could do it all the time >.>