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People imagine esports as like, a sedentary lifestyle thing. Seems pretty intuitive. But if you’re in high school and you get bad grades, for some reason, you

People imagine esports as like, a sedentary lifestyle thing. Seems pretty intuitive. But if you’re in high school and you get bad grades, for some reason, you work out a lot, or you’re taller, and for some reason, you play sports. And now, for some reason, you play eSports. eSports competitors are jocks, not nerds. It wasn’t ever about using yoga to improve performance. The public just doesn’t get the dynamics of performance arts and how or why people get into them in 2019, and how that has changed since the 80s. But I think there’s a pretty good book about it and I’ll find it again soon.

jaypeg25 8y ago
I have no idea what you're trying to say.
- nugga 8y ago
  My guess is he's trying to say plenty high skilled gamers are fit or even muscular. If you're in good physical shape that will show in your performance because especially first person shooters require a lot of twitch aim and good reactions as well as mental toughness, clarity, ability to handle pressure, etc.
- doctorpangloss 8y ago
  That there isn’t any evidence that yoga or whatever improves your eSports performance. Evidence in the sense of randomized control trials. It would be really hard to design that experiment anyway, so pretty much expect that evidence to never really appear. So just take the things that this article are saying about training and esports and fitness or whatever as though they are true, and now delete them. What is left? The clickbait that (1) the public perceives being into eSports as also being into computers, so (2) isn’t it surprising that people into computers are also into fitness? Why I’m saying is the public perception is wrong. ESports is not for people into computers. It’s for people who are into regular sports, which the public would not find surprising at all that people into regular sports are into fitness. From a game design point of view I think it’s really fascinating. Starcraft 2, like one commenter said, is for “nerds” but that game is dead. eSports games, the really huge PvP games, they don’t look like SC2 at all anymore. So what’s really eSports? I’d argue not SC2. It was always about designing things that appeal to people who would be into regular sports. My hypothesis WHY people into sports are also into eSports: because they’re both things that 13-18 year olds get into, oftentimes, when their nerdier endeavors (like getting good grades in school, which is pretty much impossible to do while being a competitive eSports athlete) don’t pan out or aren’t as attractive. The public isn’t really aware of the similarities between sports and eSports in terms of what you need, going into them, to be competitive. The public sees that being into computers involves a lot of sitting, so people who do that must wind up fat. Even doctors think that! But we don’t observe many eSports athletes who are lardasses, so how to explain that? This is my explanation: eSports are actually a jock thing to do!
taurath 8y ago
Competitiveness is the difference, not whether you're into the Philadelphia Eagles or the Periodic Table. Plenty of both, and it still skews towards the nerdier side of the spectrum (though its very game dependent - CoD players are mostly dudebros, Starcraft players are usually nerds). For the professional level, performance matters, and good physical health gives better performance on measure (wide amount of exceptions of course). Thats the point about Yoga.

jaypeg25 8y ago

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

nugga 8y ago
My guess is he's trying to say plenty high skilled gamers are fit or even muscular. If you're in good physical shape that will show in your performance because especially first person shooters require a lot of twitch aim and good reactions as well as mental toughness, clarity, ability to handle pressure, etc.
doctorpangloss 8y ago
That there isn’t any evidence that yoga or whatever improves your eSports performance. Evidence in the sense of randomized control trials. It would be really hard to design that experiment anyway, so pretty much expect that evidence to never really appear. So just take the things that this article are saying about training and esports and fitness or whatever as though they are true, and now delete them. What is left? The clickbait that (1) the public perceives being into eSports as also being into computers, so (2) isn’t it surprising that people into computers are also into fitness? Why I’m saying is the public perception is wrong. ESports is not for people into computers. It’s for people who are into regular sports, which the public would not find surprising at all that people into regular sports are into fitness. From a game design point of view I think it’s really fascinating. Starcraft 2, like one commenter said, is for “nerds” but that game is dead. eSports games, the really huge PvP games, they don’t look like SC2 at all anymore. So what’s really eSports? I’d argue not SC2. It was always about designing things that appeal to people who would be into regular sports. My hypothesis WHY people into sports are also into eSports: because they’re both things that 13-18 year olds get into, oftentimes, when their nerdier endeavors (like getting good grades in school, which is pretty much impossible to do while being a competitive eSports athlete) don’t pan out or aren’t as attractive. The public isn’t really aware of the similarities between sports and eSports in terms of what you need, going into them, to be competitive. The public sees that being into computers involves a lot of sitting, so people who do that must wind up fat. Even doctors think that! But we don’t observe many eSports athletes who are lardasses, so how to explain that? This is my explanation: eSports are actually a jock thing to do!

taurath 8y ago

Competitiveness is the difference, not whether you're into the Philadelphia Eagles or the Periodic Table. Plenty of both, and it still skews towards the nerdier side of the spectrum (though its very game dependent - CoD players are mostly dudebros, Starcraft players are usually nerds). For the professional level, performance matters, and good physical health gives better performance on measure (wide amount of exceptions of course). Thats the point about Yoga.