mentality

Why do I lose when the other one is weaker?

Hi everyone, first of all  I am going to tackle you today with the theme of how important mentality is while playing a sport like Baduk or Table tennis and so on. I got this interesting link about this theme from a friend, who plays go for years and got to 2-3dan. http://tabletennis.about.com/od/beginnersfaqs/a/why_you_lose.htm He also noticed firsthand how the pressure while playing is influencing his games against other dan players. I have to agree with that. Recently everything is going wrong around me and as I played my last Baduk tournament again as 1k i lost  every game. I cant say for sure that it was only because I was feeling down about everything that went wrong in the last months of my life, but it definitly is part of the reason why I lost so badly in the last tournament. But even minor things can set off an unbalance of your concentration therefore I can only point out right now that it happens from time to time. If it happened  and everything went wrong don´t try to break the situation forcefully. In most cases that way makes everything even worse. You have to regain your mood always step by step. that´s about all i can say about it here a second link which i got as well http://www.mentalgamecoaching.com/IMGCAArticles/Tennis/StopLosingToWeakerPlayers.html I hope all of you will have a good day, your admin yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya