Japanese → English transcript

Next, I'll talk about where to focus your attention while aiming. For example, in FPS, you might hit when shooting without thinking, but miss the moment you try to aim properly.

Things like this, or focusing too much on your arm

making your movements a bit stiff, or constantly switching your gaze between the crosshair and the enemy

resulting in a lot of overflicking or underflicking. I'm sure you've experienced things like this.

This can actually be explained from a kinesiological or medical perspective. Focusing on hitting the enemy is called an external focus of attention.

Focusing on your mouse arm or the crosshair is an internal focus. To put it simply,

focusing on the enemy makes your aim faster and reduces wasted movement. Conversely, focusing too much on your arm makes your aim stiff,

clunky, and slow. In actual matches, an external focus is generally much stronger.

Focusing on the enemy—an external focus—is not about how to move your hand, but about where you want to hit.

It's a state of concentrating on the outcome of the movement, like looking at the enemy's head

or watching their movement. At this time, your body moves automatically to match the target, making it easy to adjust.

On the other hand, a strong internal focus slows down your movement and leads to larger errors in adjustment.

Thinking about how to move your wrist, whether your arm is tense, or overanalyzing the alignment of the crosshair and the head to make adjustments,

when this happens, and your brain starts monitoring your own movements and the sensations in your arm, your aiming stops being automatic.

That's why your reaction slows down and you lose smoothness. So, during matches, make sure to maintain an external focus.

But internal focus has its merits too, like during practice, when you notice you're putting too much tension in a certain muscle, or

when you feel your arm rubbing against the mousepad too much, allowing you to get feedback from your arm.

It's fine for making corrections. So, you can do that when practicing carefully and slowly, like during practice or in aim training software.

To roughly summarize this aspect of focus, aiming while looking at the enemy tends to make your aim faster.

It tends to be faster and increases accuracy. But if you focus on your arm or

this crosshair too much, your aim will become slower or clunky. Aiming while looking at the enemy is an external focus,

which allows for automated, automatic, and almost unconscious movement. But focusing on your arm, which is an internal focus,

increases conscious control and makes your movement stiff. So, during a match,

please focus only on looking at the enemy. If you want to know more about internal and external focus, I've posted about this on X,

so please check it out. That's all for this session on aim visualization.