#Arm aiming and tracking help

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loud saddle
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1000 hours in Val, serious aim training since last week. Decent at clicking and switching, still very bad, but atleast I know where I lack and steadily improving. Tracking, otoh, feels impossible. Especially, any vertical tracking, because I have to engage my arm. It's so frustrating, I search for easiest versions of tasks to build up and even they are too hard.

What I have tried:

  1. Playing High sens to learn stability and smoothness. (I play 35cm in tracking)
  2. Focusing on target instead of crosshair, being relaxed, and trying to read bot movements.

When I use my arm, I don't know what muscles or joints am I supposed to engage? I know that it's all supposed to be in tandem, but I just can't get a feel for it. With my wrist, I use fingers for micro adjustments and wrist joint for larger flicks, still using fingers to 'stop' at target and general control. How do I achieve that with my arm? My arm movements are highly inconsistent.

Specific questions -

  1. Where does the 'primary' power to move your arm comes from? Forearm, elbow or shoulder?

  2. Where is my arm supposed to rest, what is the 'pivot' point? Like my wrist rests on bottom of my palm, and that is sort of the 'lever' I use to make wrist movements.

  3. When doing fast snappy arm flicks, how do you deaccelerate? This is the biggest reason for my inconsistency even in clicking. In wrist flicks, I manage to land bang on or at a small distance so only a microadjustment is needed. But arm flicks, I'm way off.

  4. I need help with vertical movements desperately. With horizontal movements, I can use my wrist to generate some degree of control and consistency. I use a claw grip and there is no space to drag mouse down within my palm. So I can't make any downwards vertical movements with my wrist at all. Should I switch to a fingertip grip?

If you guys can point to any resources on any tips, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read this long.

ivory matrix
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mainly ur forearm and elbow are used for all arm movement, ur shoulder is engaged with low sens vertical movements, im kinda confused about 4, are you resting your palm on the pad?

loud saddle
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I mean when horizontal tracking, I can use my wrist to account for sudden switching in bot direction. Or generally for control, you know, for finer movements etc.

But the way I hold my mouse, there is no room for any vertical movements using wrist. Like smallest of movements have to come from my arm and that makes it unstable.

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Also could you clarify please, do all vertical movements come from shoulder or it's a mix between elbow/forearm and shoulder.

ivory matrix
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you wont make a wide enough vertical motion to force yourself to use your shoulder* unless ur playing static on like 50+ cm or like vertical tracking scenarios or rare situations like when the snake track bot hugs u, ur going to be using the rest of ur arm most of the time for vertical movements