Zone is actually a real thing, it's called "Flow" and was coined by a Croatian Psychologist called Csikszentmihalyi. It's actually applicable to any activity, video games, sports, writing a test etc. It happens when you lock in and everything seems to fit into place for you almost too perfectly.

But we don´t see their eyes emanating electricity....why is real life so lame?!

I’ve been playing basketball for about 10 years and I’ve only experienced something similar to the Zone once. We were playing against our rivals and it was a game I really wanted to win, and that drive led me to play the best game I have ever played. Some of my friends on the team, who also watch KnB, were pointing it out to me after the game. Even the opponents coach said he had never seen me play so good. So, I’d say it’s real and it effects everyone in a different way.

It's all about the confidence. U take ur first shot, it sinks.. U take a second shot, it sinks... Suddenly, u feel unstoppable.. U stop second guessing.. U stop hesitating... Suddenly, u pass better, u shoot over anyone... Suddenly, u see gaps, such wide gaps in the D, and it's as though u are alone in training.. Going for a simple layup. That's what it FEELS. WHAT actually happening, is that u are moving extraordinarily swiftly, the zone, is like bullet time.. And it only ends when u take notice of it. U don't summon it, and when it comes, u can't control it.. U just do, and let it flow through u. I'm not a pro player yet, but as I unlocked my potential, I felt it more and more.

Fun fact, the zone, flow state, etc, is also present in arts like music, (when someones improvise they usually are in the zone) It also inspired the "ultra instinct"

I played basketball long before I started watching anime, but I can relate to zone in a way. It’s simple. When you’re hitting everything, and nothing will stop you. I had it happen to me once. I was hitting every three, layup, blocking shots. I finished the game with 33 points, 10 assists, 6 rebounds, and 4 blocks.

"I'm in the zone right now" is a term used quite a lot in sports and while playing games. So Zone here is used in the same way as Ultra Instinct in DBS, it's not a "form" like super Saiyan or a power, it's a state of mind. Compared to Zone, Ultra Instinct is basically the next level. In UI you go even beyond focus and trying, your body basically moves on it's own, offence and defence happen autonomously and most importantly your adrenaline also kicks-in which makes you not feel any pain or fatigue and everything you do is completely perfect.

I love this anime BUT ITS ONLY 3 SEASONS AND 75 EPISODES

*KUROKO NO BASKET GREATNESS!* I miss the anime so much 😭

a perfect example of zone is Kevin Love 35 points in the first quarter

"hot hands" is when a shooter is comfortable with their shooting form in their entire body. Even great shooters usually start a game little off in their feet being planted right or their follow through, but when you see a few go in you start putting a little extra spring in your jump and considering the angles before you even shoot it, itching for another chance to test whether you're as hot as you feel. This leads to "heat checks", where players take excusably bad shots just to see how sharpened their shooting instincts are to their proper form. there's a reason shooters with more consistent forms tend to get hot easier, they're closer to that hot spot by default. Basketball watchers treat "hot hand" like the defining factor is hitting one shot after another, but that's not it, it's about consistency and a hot spot mentally. The zone is different and can extend from shooting to dribbling to defending to post ups, everything, something that only extremely experienced players get to revolved around willpower and emotion. Flow state is yet another thing where mentally a person doing an activity reaches an extremely productive feedback loop and loses themselves in an affirming pattern of action.

"The Zone" is real.

I've been bowling for 10 years and i can definitely say that a zone like state is real

I definitely think the zone is real and I believe I have felt it before. A couple weeks ago I was playing in a volleyball tournament and the setter gave me the most perfect set he could and I could just feel that I was going to get the point. I was completely focused and it was an entirely different sensation then when I normally get when I hit.

im a psychology student and i fucking loved the zone reference in the anime, because conscious states are my favorite subjects, and the "zone" concept in kuroko no basket is a great simplificated concept of the flow state, probaly the author of knb came to that concept because writers experience this a lot, all analytic ocupations too, theres a cool story about a maratonist which has a neurologic damage that affect her permanent memory, and when she run she always achieve a constant state of the flow because of the coeffiencient anxiety x concentration she is subjected of wanting to win but dont having any fucking idea where she is and how she came there, a very interesting case

when you love basketball but cant play the sport

You're playing but you don't realize you're playing. I've always felt this when im playing basketball I just never knew what to call it up until I heard of it in koroko.

That Klay Thompson's zone is what we can think if Midorima finally goes into the zone. I hope Kuroko No Basket gets another seasons for us to see Midorima go into the zone.

Being in the zone can be applied to almost anything, and I feel like what it actually is can vary situationally. Sometimes it’s just down to adrenaline, sometimes it’s a matter of extreme focus or willpower, and yes, sometimes I think it can come down to luck. As a massive gamer the best example I can provide is when you’re playing an extremely hard game or level (for some reason things like rhythm games and shmups are perfect for this) and all of a sudden after hours of harsh losses the world around you fades and you just start crushing it. I have heard stories as well as personally experienced situations where your eyes will literally go partially out of focus and it’ll seem like you’re perceiving everything on the screen at once. It doesn’t really seem to make sense but it’s definitely a real thing.

Zone is definitely real when you at your last drop of energy the heat in your body from sweat of fate hues gives off last resort clutch state of mind on some self movement type of vibe and only thing people haven’t able to achieve is creating a aura of color like most anime characters can do in certain shows and aura is 3 dimensional

I’ve always played basketball and I’m so happy to see that this anime is getting more people to play👍🏻

As a basketball player i do believe the zone is real and I believe i have reached it only a few times in my life but its lit

well playing highschool basketball I can say it is true in a sense. I get these moments in a game where pretty much everything I wanted to do I was just able to do it, heck I wasn't even really a high jumper at the time either but at one point I ended up dunking on someone who was a foot taller than me and everyone looked at me like "where that came from?" I tried dunking w/o anybody guarding during practice and I can't even do it LOL. There's just those moments for me where everything was just so clear, I wouldn't say like everyone is on slo-mo but seems like I can already see what was about to happen. But it definitely don't last that long maybe a couple of minutes of a quarter when we're struggling. Most of the time I just keep shooting when I feel it and watch that ball go in. Edit: Details on that dunk, I saw a teamate shoot a three and I remember seeing it and I knew it was gonna miss and bounce right in front of the rim and I just jumped before it bounced over the center and basically did a put back dunk. I remember looking down and was like "damn, I jumped that high?"

Just gotta love your vids mate. They make me addicted.

OMG I LOVE KUROKO NO BASKET SO MUCH

I am not a great player myself but i can indeed confirm "The Zone" is 100% real. I was practicing three pointers for years. I was always bad at them and could never find a shooting form. One day i had a chance to finally play and show my friends i improved. I missed most of my first shots. Until eventually in the second game i got a nice release, felt good, and the shot sank. I got a confidence boost from there but i still wasnt in the zone yet just playing normally. Next shot i got i hesitated less and focused on the hoop. Released and it sank again. I instantly felt good about my shot from then. I got another open shot in the opposite corner. Did not hesitate one bit, looked up, quick release and it sank. It felt great. I didnt realize anything special was going on in my head i was just doing what i practiced. I was open again, boom, another one. Got the ball on the left mid, cut in for an easy layup it felt like i was practicing alone. Caught the ball on a fast break on the left corner and let it fly, it felt great. And i remember watching the ball go through the hoop perfectly and hearing the swish. Everything was going my way. I just played, and let it come naturally and felt great.

The backbround music that starts at 6:25 is from Katekyo Hitman Reborn - Ost Tsuna Awakens

It’s real I’ve been in a zone and couldn’t miss and focused so much I was making shots almost half court range and didn’t have a reaction

I remember when i was playing nba 2k14 in myCareer one time i break my most points records and when it comes to interview section my character talks about "i was in the zone backthen" so yep i think it is same "zone".

Everything in the anime can be done and achieved But only if you are a world class player with extreme skills

I think its real but its overly exaggerated in the anime

I live for this.

Great video brother! I play basketball in college. Its definitely a real thing. All it takes is seeing one shot go in the basket and your body does the rest.

I’m an artist I draw a lot and I think I entered “The Zone” a couple of times. PS my favorite nba player of all time is Kobe

Hell I say u get in the zone when practicing your scripts🙌🏾. Love the video💯

By the way i have just subscribe nice video and i love your intro it's damn cool!

Alright fellas its time to go BALLS DEEP into Kuroko no Basuke

I've experienced that stated before. I was training (Basketball) with my team and we were playing a little match. There was a steal and a guy wanted to take thy layup, and when he was about 4 metres away from the basket I just kind o snapped into the zone and ran from halfcourt to the basket and blocked his layup without even thinking. I was faster than ever, I jumped higher than ever, and I can't remember much of it, but it was an awesome feeling. Unfortunately, my body was too untrained and weak to sustain the zone for any longer and I had to go to the side because my legs were just really weak.

Great video, one of the best on your channel

when you playing some ball and then you make some shots making u think you're aomine and some kuroko no basuke ost is playing in ur mind.

I freaking watcjed this anime so many times.... This is one of the best anime ever!!

All games had this zone thing. I got one when playing futsal the other day. Its zone or adrenaline rush. I didn't feel tired in the game, my mind is clearer, able to demonstrate good level of awareness (Didn't look at the ball at my feet even once, saw all my teammates around me, faster reaction.) But after that, burned out for 3 days.

I entered the zone a few times back when I used to play Call of Duty multiplayer. During certain games, I would be annihilating everyone I ran into, I would react faster then usual and I wasn't worried about getting killed. I was really confident in my abilities and I would have the best K/D ratio for that game. But once I start thinking about how good I'm doing, my play slowly start getting worse and I pretty much lose the zone state. When I try to get back into that state and focus it never works, only once I stop trying so hard, there's a chance that I could enter it again.

I think zone is just a feeling of being so hype in real life

Zone is a real thing........trust me I know

I experienced something like the zone, one day while in a basketball tournament between a bunch of schools I just started scoring at least 15 points thanks to my teammates. Honestly the only thing I thought of at the moment was to make everyone proud and to surpass myself. That was a thing that I only experienced once unless you count every time I made a shot with very little help.

I remember some of my friend entered in the zone in the middle of a basketball game. He fell down than got up and started dominating the game alone for like 5 minutes.

Everyone can enter the flow state when they’re doing something, but you have to feel a complete dedication to nothing else but what you’re doing at that moment, I’ve done it in sports and games and it almost feels like your mind is blanking out and thinking of nothing but the one thing you’re doing at the same time automatically.

I think i was in the Zone two times in my life. First time was with 15 in a football match with friends. I scored 10 goals in the match and we won like 10:5 or something like that. Second time was in a Company Football Cup with 19 or 20, i played with and against players from the 4th and 5th german football league and scored 4 goals. In both games my team was the obvious underdog. And after both games i was so exhausted that i had to lay down for like an hour before i could go change my clothes. I didnt even noticed realy much from the games, it was just play and score for me. After the second game one of the players from my team ( a guy from a german 4th league team ) asked me if i wanted to make a try out on his team. I never did the try out, i know that i am not even close to playing on that level.

The ZONE is known as adrenaline rush in scientific words It has happened to me once when I was playing cricket and my team needed 4 runs to win and we only had one ball left plus the opponents team fielder were the best and even the best batsmen in our team got out by those fielders and I kept saying in my mind that I have to score a 4 in this ball and the bowler's ball swing felt too easy for me (actually it was a difficult ball) and I hit it and scored a four

I have experienced the zone a few times once when playing basketball and once while playing splatoon I have found that it has gotten easier for me to enter the zone as the challenge has increased

This is so true. Even if you are playing on the park with your friends, there are moments where you suddenly hit 5 threes in a row, or just hit shot after shot including crazy contested ones you usually never hit

I’ve only ever been in the “zone” once (as far as I could remember) I was playing a game and I was doing okay throughout the game. But I really wanted to win so for some reason in the last 5 minutes of the game I couldn’t MISS A SHOT. Like Idk how to describe it. It was like no matter what shot I took or how contested it was it would always go in. We won but I felt like I was still getting better as the game went on but the game ended. So idk maybe I was almost entering the Zone but I’ve never felt anything like that again. But my school basketball season is about to start so I’ll come back and tell ya how it goes or if I enter the zone at all.

LeBron did this zone thing At 2012 finals vs celtics

13:20 that name seems like someone literally ran their hand across a key board and decided to name their child the result of doing that 😂😂

Love the video! I'm going to back to watching the series later. Plus, I did play basketball in high school back in the day. I've experienced being in the zone in baseball & basketball during youth league years ago (it's real).

When i play i get Cold hands

Funny I experienced the zone about 3 months ago when my team was so tired and breathless and we were down by 4 my body just felt like It had awoken something at the end of that game I got 4 consecutive blocks and won the game with a buzzer beater

this is actually very well reasearched and the video goes to good length to tell us about the "The Zone"

This anime was the only reason I tried out for the basketball team😂

this just makes me want to play high level basketball again and get into the zone again. there is nothing more fun it's like playing indeed in slow motion and you just get so hyped.

I think The Zone is real it is the desire and love what you do. It can apply to all the things that you do. Kuroko's Basketball is my favorite im waiting if it have a season 3 i hope that it have.

NBA eastern conference finals Heat vs Celtics 2012, LeBron's performance in a win or go home game will be one of the best example of a guy in the zone for the whole game

damn so this was before the edits got good props to ABD

As a former basketball player The zone exists And it's incredible to hit

Basketball ball in real life surpasses anime! The action and the suspense of the playoffs when every thing comes to the last second - literally- Curry 3 pointers rivals modorima Kyre irving Handels and movments are better than aomini Chris paul passes are better than koroko or akashi to some extent LeBaron dunks and high vertical jumps are better than kagami Harden's movments and foot work better than kise Cousins, porzingis, AD, whiteside, drummond, deandre jordan are dominant like murasaki Not to mention kD, westbrook, giannis... Etc And those are just the current players So if u like basketball anime,,,,, ooh boy u should watch the NBA

Zone is like the full use of muscle memory and full operation of mentality

i just played vanguard,kendo and basketball all of those games i was so focused that i didn't even know we won

Wait.. When i Play Basketball i Lit Never Pay Attention To Anything Accept the Game... Does it Mean im Always in The Zone? Or Flow? I'am Interested.......Btw im So Focused i Let Someone Steal my Snack ;( I Also Dont Give a Dam About Someone Talking to Me.

So...... Anime is just real life but exaggerated?

Kuroko is my favourite anime. I started playing basketball just to play like kuroko and think like kagami. I love kuroko so bad but i akways feel sadness when i realize that its just an Anime... i just suddenly startet crying after i heard ur words buddy.. ty so much

I have experienced this while drawing and it is a feeling of mental ecstacy whilst doing what you love to do. It's like being in a void where all sensory perceptions seem to become one and rather than thinking of "being" you just will yourself to "be" without doing so purposefully.

Duh!!! zone is as real as the sun example Tom Brady come back against Atlanta.......

No flex zone No flex zone Remember that song ?

ah yes my fav knb character owemine xd good vid tho

Okay that intro video😫👌

It's real in everything we do in life, I get in the zone sometimes when I draw and it's fucking amazing, so yeah there's your answer

Like if last game made u cry

i love getting into a zone.. its like its a great day that everything is going your way.. but to me you should play at your best everytime and practice.. zone will come because of that..

Idk why but when I went in the zone I forced it open the gates of the zone even now when I remember myself playing in the zone it makes me shivers

No because ........ No matter how hard u try, you can’t get lightning coming from your eyes that match your hair colour The more you know Now you know

Anime at 0:46?

In the zone is a real state of mind where your focused to the maximum and you play your best in any sport

To activate zone 1.focus for defense and offense 2.now do neutral offensive focus and neutral defensive focus 3.increase your speed and the last this is important 4.you must have the consistency in a game

Slam Dunk>.........................>Kuroko no Basket

I played at a basketball tournament, I was locked in and had this focus like I didnt even notice any other things in the background I was focused on winning, I just felt that state, it just visually looked different and I was focused so much that my shooting percentage was pretty high, everything was slowing down, my shift of mindset was only on the game

This anime has finally made me play a sport from ALL these years of laying around, doing nothing. Not only that, but I also want to try making the moves from the anime like Kuroko's misdirection and his ignite pass kai! Totally inspired!!!

I remember in baseball, when I wanted to score. I haven’t scored all year and I just felt it in my chest, and I destroyed the ball to left field

I have been playing basketball since I was 5 and now I’m 14, I’ve only experienced the zone once when literally just forgot about everything and went crazy making 6 to 7 consecutive shots

Bro this is the best anime ever. It got me hella motivated to play basketball

watch curry and thompson when they explode,or old videos of kobe ,tmacs streak,kobe even talked about the zone ,achieved by having the passion for the thing and getting the challenge so its not to easy but hard enough you can surpass yourself but at the same time having the skill to do,if you get into flow state everything falls in line for the one thing

Well done bro 👍

It's also called for teams who don't have players who can't guard their man.

The way i get into a "zone" is when i get really determined to score

In football when you're in the zone you feel like your in complete control of everything, every pass, every shot, every dribble you know where the ball is gonna be exactly and its almost like you control the whole flow of the game and can change the game in a second

Ive experienced the flow state a few times, and it just feels like a dream, the flow state is kind of when you zone out , and for me i see kind of blurry and i can’t see anything else out of the game, i cant hear anything but the game,and in in total focus. I jump higher, i dribble faster, i shoot faster,i move faster, i have insane accuracy.But it has one flaw, once you go out you have no energy and cant do anything anymore, the best thing to do is to not think so you can keep it for longer

I remember when I was alone in a gym and I had headphones in and I wasn’t even thinking about that I was doing I was making shots and doing crossovers I’ve never done before, I’ve also felt it in a game and mad 32 points, so I believe it is very real, it also feels good when your in it

I guess i’ve entered the zone when i had a basketball game i was only focus in this game and literally i heard in slow motion and i was feelin like heavy from inside and then minute ago i was like a flash super fast

Yeah i play baseball. I can tell how I will do and feel before I play. Everything just resonates together it just flows like water. Then while I get into the batter's box everything is quiet and when the pitcher pitches the ball I can see the ball in slow motion and the ball isn't blurry either. Seeing the ball so clearly makes it seem like you were watching that ball come in for hours when everything happened in less than a second. all of a sudden the bat comes around and the ball launches and you snap out of that state of mind and run.

I remember being injured while playing in a tournament, got this feeling and started making shots I've never made before. It was great, might've been me in the zone :D