If this video helps you I'd massively appreciate you leaving a like on the video and considering subscribing to the channel. It genuinely helps me out more than you can know!

I always believed if you could let go of your doubts and be confident in yourself you’d change the game, Jack. And I’m sure many will agree when I say now you have and continue to do so! It’s really humbling to hear how your perspective on a topic we disagreed on years ago has changed as you’ve gained more experience in your career. You never stop learning and it’s something I admire and respect about you a lot! Aaaand I do vaguely remember you calling me something along the lines of an idiot back then for my stance on choosing confidence 😂 I’ve always been and always will be a huge fan of yours! Great video, great mindset, and great advice. Love following your story as you continue to grow and succeed as both a person and player. I’ll keep cheering you on even from the retirement home 🙌🏼👨🏼‍🦳

as a 1900 i rarely see tips videos that have valuable advice for GC2+ but this was phenomenal, people don't understand that they have to push themselves to see improvement past a certain point and cant mindlessly freeplay and 2s to 2k

I don't know what to look for when im watching my replays or actually I can't notice my mistakes or I don't have the critical eye but I've found a way to fix that!! instead of needing a 3rd party to review my replays, I became the 3rd party. All I needed was to change perspectives. we all look at our teammates with the "critical eye" so we notice their mistakes with ease, so all I needed to do is become the "teammate" to notice my own mistakes. so all I do now is change to my teammates perspective and look at my gameplay from his view and it is much easier now. just a way to help those who struggle with replay analysis.

Jack I don’t know how to say this, but your the only content creator who explains it in a way so easily and understandable, I really like this video and appreciate the effort ❤

Call this man the Car Ball Physicist, really insightful video

I'm an older player, and appreciate the down to earth comments you make. I am not trying to be a pro, but I like to have fun, and I like to generally play well in the games I am involved with. Not every team you go against will be the same, nor any team if you get matched up with people will play the same. Some people like to touch every ball possible, while others like to sit in the goal and play the 3rd man the whole game. I mostly just want to contribute in each game. Thank you for keeping the game fun for a LOT of us!!

All of that made so much sense 😊

Couldn't agree more. Thanks so much for your help, mate. You're well appreciated where I come from and I wouldn't be who I am without you blazing the trail.

jack: "a lot of peoples main focus in freeplay is to watch youtube on the side" me watching this vid while in freeplay: shit jokes aside, thanks for the tips

Truly insightful and universal advice. This gives me the motivation and path to improve, so thanks

Great advice, Jack!

literally the best tips ive ever recieved, im a c1 and you literally mentioned all of my mistakes and making mr understand i play bad. thank you and i believe you will become rank 1 in 1v1 very soon

Thank you Jack ❤

love these improvement videos

Hey jack I was just telling my girlfriend how much of a fan I am of yours, and I don’t usually fangirl over influencers but I’m seriously inspired by you and your content. Ty

amazing tips, thanks jack!

preciate you appjack

thx jack you are right confidence makes you think faster and not doubt your self

Man! I’ve been watching you for years now! You’re literally my favorite rocket league KZfaqr! Thank you for this I’m champ trying to grind to GC and just don’t know what to work on. Thank you!

Absolute legend 👏🏻 Great reminder about watching what players around you can do in new ranks. Much love, Jack. Excited to see your run at worlds ❤

Love the Virge shoutout! That dude is a beast coach

This man, is an absolute legend

Don't call me crazy but I think the things Jack said are really similar as things you have to work on while playing football. For example the confidently playing and nitpicking yourself. I think that even though rl is very different to football in terms of mechanic's, the games do back each other up quite well. Also great tips! ❤

really appreciate the care for your viewers as a pro

Love this from you ❤

Really great video jack 👍🏻👍🏻

I’m a low GC2 and I’ve been pretty hard stuck for a long time. I’m definitely gonna try these tips! One thing definitely stuck out to me about being over critical of yourself causing low confidence. I’ve noticed this about myself and found that how I play in my first game on dictates the whole rest of the day. This video made me think about that way more so hopefully I can get out of that habit!

2, 4, and 5 are overlooked by most players, but will absolutely help most players improve. It's the simple things that will help you improve the most that most people overlook due to some ego or pride. Great video jack.

As a gc3 on Xbox is stopped playing a few months back and now have bought a Pc and are gonna try and grind the game again, this video has come at a perfect time.

Appreciate this video, I don’t generally spend a full near 20 minutes watching a tutorial type video but this was really helpful. I struggle personally as a gc1 with confidence.. there are times I’m so confident for whatever reason and will just plow through ranks and other times I feel like a terrible loser and lose all my ranks! Haha I do believe confidence is huuuuge if you have even some of the skill to back it up. Thanks for the effort🤟🏼

Coming from a gc1 he is absolutely right about EVERYTHING especially the tilt aspect. Don’t let your teammates tilt you guys , it will only effect you negatively just go next game

I just need a day with u helping me out lol I'm always between diamond 2 and 3. Ur right with confidence tho some weeks I feel like I'm on it all the time and I'm playing really well with me mate who's between diamond 3 and champ 1 and the link up play is awesome and then some weeks I feel like I can't hit the ball lol. Appreciate the post tho 👌👍

uploading like crazyyyyy

💯 Agree, on everything. Well said! 👏

I completely agree with the playing aggressive tip, I was hard stuck improvement wise until I started playing consistently with a low level friend. Because he was gold 3 while I was champ 1 it meant I had to be the person challenging in the air every time even if I was still rotating back which has drastically improved my consistency and confidence with Ariels.

Thanks for the tips Jack. I have one thing to add that might be obvious but getting good sleep is pivotal. I never feel better than when I have a good night of sleep.

Really insightful video!! Since going to London RLCS I've really wanted to get back into playing RL and improving. I'm always really focused on moving up in ranks but the connection with improving actually being more likely to result in loss of mmr is really interesting and something I've never really thought of. Big thank you for making this video!! Gonna get on the solo queue grind!

My first ever intro to app jack on a Scrubkilla ranked ones vid “thus guy jus spams flecks!”

I'd love to back you up, Jack, on your assessment on why "being confident is a choice and a decision". Sport's psychologist Dr. Noel Brick has studied that the success of most athletes is through being proactive in your goal-setting and understanding which goals fall into certain categories. Since a lot of sports/esports/game practice cannot be learned successfully overnight, I think the most common and most feared type of goal is a 'process' goal. One where you know it's essential to the foundation of your ability to succeed but also know that it takes time. Most people aren't cut out for success in sports/esports/games, because they aren't gratified early on and they lose motivation. I think your coach, Virge, was absolutely spot on and knew that it was just a process for you and all other players to sprinkle in some proactive and forced 'confidence' to get the ball rolling and to motivate you to becoming the player you are presently. I recommend anyone reading this comment to read 'The Genius of Athletes'

If you asked me what I thought about AppJack, I’d tell you he my favorite player. But if you asked me on a deeper level… I’d tell you that every waking moment my soul relies on the hope that soon I would get a KZfaq notification that he’s uploaded another video. I’d also tell you that I get such joy from seeing him play the game and my spirit gets motivation when I see him flick the ball to the top right corner with such passion. Lastly, I would say every word he speaks in his beautiful accent makes me think everything will be okay.

Would love to see a video like this specifically for 1v1 mains.

So I get how confidence can be a choice, but I'm just not confident at all, I'm a very humble person and understand that I could be doing some things better then what I am, I just don't know how to.

“Confidence is a choice” fantastic quote

Im only gc but a tip that helped me personally: everything in rocket league takes time! Mechs, game sense, comms, etc. Some learn quicker some slower. Don’t rush yourself and get too critical with urself bc of it

enjoy this guy

awesome tips but also holy fuck are these shots wild 😭😭😭bro is hitting insane shots while just chatting and its fucking ridiculous how easy he makes it look

W tips jack ❤

You made me realize why I didn't agree with shuishy's teachings in his road to ssl's. He was giving the advice to get you to a certain rank, which is completely different from improving as a player.

5:20 I'd add to the whole "true intention" thing, it works wonders to go watch a video of some pro achieving the shot you're practicing, and looking what you do different from them. The "image" in your mind is the super important. You can't always imagine it right by yourself how to hit the ball or pull of the mechanic correctly, but literally watching the mechanic multiple times creates this "Image" in your brain of how it should look. So going one by one, practicing a mechanic while also seeing a clip of it pulled off, then doing the next mechanic, is very good training

I’ve been 1370 in 1s and I’m trying to reach 1500 one day and these little high level tips are huge, because all the improvement vids are targeted towards champ and below it seems, so thanks for making this

As a gc3 I do feel like I do fall into the all player a lot and I do think the finding something that will make me stand out and shit will help push me to be better and also looking at what ssl players do when they face me

I think the confidence factor is actually from players who don't hesitant or second-guess themselves. Such as myself, I doubt myself a lot, in two minds about plays and I get beat to the ball, etc

Man you gotta take you own advice, lets see a major win!

Jack, if you haven't heard of it, and viewers, the book The Inner Game of Tennis goes very much in depth into improving your own mental in sports.

Great stuff, 1700 rn myself only able to play on the weekends. I notice that it's so free wins when you let the opponent do mistakes. Playing a bit more passively, ofc within reason but most of the time you just get a free ball because they mess up a shot

The last part with the confidence and don't blame others is the most important part - even in real life.

For me im basically in gold and I been trying to learn wall to air dribble i made very little progress made very few goals. But The reason im trying to learn it now because eventually at some point your going to have to learn them. And if I can learn then now I can use them in higher leagues but even still it's soooo difficult.

Yeah that air dribble bump for champ is definitely something I need to work on. Hardstuck diamond here

Thanks Jack. I feel guilty accepting this for free. You’re a legend! 🙌

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i can attest to this confidence is key. i have the skill stuck in c3 trying to get gc... before i was kinda playing more passive when playing aggressive players yesterday took a aggressive approach and went up a 100mmr.

I can almost without fail own goal. It's my specialty.

appjack do u have any tips to get good confidence in urself i see my self 100 times better in private against the same rank then i do in ranked

Does Jack have any comment on casual vs ranked, in terms of training?

My natural tendency is to be aggressive, but Qing solo will result in losing every game to empty-net goals against due to tms failing to read plays, or position themselves properly. Resulting in having to play with worse players after enough losses. Forcing you to play weirder and weirder in order to force wins...

TOP 4!

so ironic you say this, i have been playing really patient and not aggressive and i have became like a brick wall in hoops

hey jack, what are your settings for the bakkesmod redirect plugin? It's the freeplay pass thing, The passes from my redirect plugin are very different from the others I see, the speed of the ball is much faster

HE DROPPED A NEW ONE MY GOAT

hey Jack any tips for not getting tilted in 1s, i’m GC 1 in 1s and struggle to keep my mental and end up tilting and throwing any tips?

Certified Retals classic!

3:48 nice shot!

I got to 1.2k mmr then fell straight back down to like 1k (in 2s) because I was playing at like 3am. I’ve been trying to get back up but I was banned for a week cos I told someone to kill themselves 😁

Great vid jack, I would like to ask you this question cuz I don’t see many pros giving their opinion on the subject ; what is your perspective on having 2 directional air rolls ? Is it mandatory ? Some of the most mechanical players have it, but for example zen doesn’t which is ironic considering he might be the best in that regard.

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I felt like this was aimed at me cuz I’m champ 1 right now haha

Does the controller using have anything to do with playstyle in rl? I use Xbox cobtroller and just feel stuck

Jack and Squishy are hands the down the smartest in the game

1. Brain 2. Mechanics You're welcome

Can you go over bakkesmod plugins that help you improve?

What should I do if I am champ 1-2 with 600h, I’m pretty mechanical but I never seem to be in the right place on the pitch

My best way to improve would be ALL OF MY tm8s uninstalling the game.

Hey jack, do you believe this is all possible on kbm? I am champ 3 on kbm but i always believed controller is better. Do i switch? or can i achieve the same goal without it?

so i have around 5000 hours ingame i didnt maked any bigger pauses then myb a week or two i play since 2020 every time i was able too and my peak rank is champ 3 " but " i never qued competitive that much i only mained casual for idk what reason but i just prefer casual more than competitive playlist im more mechanical player then smart ofc, any tips what should i do? i planned to quit game few times but i always get motivation back to play and lose it after thinking im just a champ 3 with over 5000 hours ingame

Just get in freeplay and try to become an offensive monster on the ball in the air. Easiest way to rank up.

I'd improve from a Feer vs JohnnyBoi 1v1 Showmatch- AppJack commentary

So I'm stuck, I am c1 and usually get teammates who don't know how to hit the ball with their nose and end up whiffing the ball half the time. I've had this one scenario happen to me a lot where my teammate whiffs the ball and I'm stuck in a 1v2 in my net, if I ego challenge and get a good 50, the other opponent is still sitting there waiting for it and it ends up going in my net anyways. If I wait, then I either can't get the save or I get the save and the other team gets to the ball quicker and my teammate is back so I push up get a 50, other team gets the ball and I get scored on because my teammate can't save a shot for their life. So what do I do???

Hello Jack. Have you any tips to how improve precision, or game sens? Im Diamond and i can't get champ. i got 1600h in game. i started on 5 season, and in 8 i get diamond. but im stuck sooo hard... some times i got gamesens like pro, but another day like gold... I don't know. maby im too old... maby this game is not for me, and i should uninstaled? Sorry for my language. English is not my main language. Have nice day.

if you have the time, could you do a road to top 100 in 2s but only solo Q. i think it could be a banger series plz like to let jack see it

I'm a diamond player in twos, i play with a friend always, I don't like solo queue, you said that a player should aim to focus more on one specific area of the game, lets say offense and defense, wouldn't playing with a friend encourage that even more? of course, if you can both distribute the tasks, so one offensive player and one defensive

In freeplay while watching this..

For others thinking about tip #5, learn how to practice with a critical mind (Intent), and then learn how to play with a confident/aggressive mindset. These two things should feed into eachother. When you've practiced something a bunch you'll have confidence in doing it, and when you don't feel confident in doing something, go back and practice it with intent. Also, during practice it's totally okay to think "Wow I'm bad at this, why am I bad at this?" when you mess up and critically break down your mistakes. However during the game/tournament you should just say "Ah unlucky, I'll get it next time" if you mess up, avoiding overthinking about mistakes or negativity and focusing on your muscle memory doing what it knows and positive reinforcement.

Jack I really need help on aerial dribbles and aerial hits with my car.I always have not enough boost when I’m about to hit the ball I don’t have enough boost.Is there any ways you can help me?

this motivated me so i queud 4 games and lagged like a mf and got flamed by everyone lmao

Confidence is definitely a choice but you have to get the confidence in yourself to make that choice, if you see what i mean 😅

dude‘s just casually slamming a 158 km/h slayer (ca 9:40)

As someone who plays slow, defensive, and unconfident, I feel personally attacked by this video. Good to know what I need to change to get better though.

Fake it till you make it ✍🏼

Hey appjack wsg