Game-Day Plan
Before you can prep right, you have to know how you show up — flat, wired, in your head, or pulled everywhere. Most players never figure that out.
Name your tendency below, and this builds the warm-up and game plan that fits it — what to do with your body, what to tell yourself, and the one routine you run every time. Keep the card.
Know how you tend to show up
Think about the last few big matches. Before the first whistle, which one sounds most like you? Tap one.
Arrive in your zone
Same goal for everyone — show up ready, not too low and not too high. But the way there depends on your tendency. Pick the moves you'll actually use; they go on your card.
Your warm-up breath, set to your tendency:
Build the routine you run every time
A routine works because it's automatic — same steps, win or lose. Three pieces. Fill what fits.
The one thing you'll look at on the first ball
Lock onto something out in front of you — never your own body, which only tightens you up.
Your cue word
One word or short line you say right before you go. Not "calm" — something that points you forward.
Your process goal for the match
One thing you control on every point — countable whether or not it lands. Not the scoreboard.
Your game-day card
Here's your plan in one card. Run it the same way before every match.
Tournament or all-day event?
Run this again between matches — your tendency can flip when you're tired. Refuel, reset, and don't carry the last match into the next. And when nerves spike during a match, that's a different tool: the Pressure Plan is the in-the-moment reset.