Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 94 Domain
After the training match ended that day, there were many things to deal with.

The first is Tamamo Cross. Judging from her performance in the game, her psychological problems must have been greatly improved.

In the early and middle stages of the game, she was surrounded by Oguruma, Inariichi and Xiaowan, which was the same as arranged by Kitahara and others.

According to the original deduction, such an encirclement would have to last for a while, and Tamamo Cross would have to slowly adapt, and then try to break out until the game could proceed smoothly.

But this time, she broke through the encirclement directly without any sign of avoidance, which means that she has at least adapted to the psychological shadow this time.

One characteristic of psychotherapy is that after you adapt to it once, the process will go extremely smoothly. To put it simply, many psychological problems are like a "threshold". Before you can cross it, you will feel it is very difficult, but after you cross it, you will just feel that it is nothing special, or even have no great feelings.

This was also proven by the psychological scale results of Tamamo Cross after the training.

Dealing with psychological problems generally requires the use of various scales. Most scales follow indicators such as discrimination, factor loading, internal consistency, validity, and reliability, which can help determine whether there is a problem and the extent of the problem.

She had been given relevant scales before, including SCL-90, 16PF and other professional scales for general mental health and occupational mental health.

Compared with before, all her data are now within normal levels, except for the "anxiety" index which is slightly higher, but not as high as the "abnormal" level, just the "tendency" level.

In other words, the progress in resolving the Tamamono Cross issue has exceeded expectations.

Another thing to deal with is how she solves this problem.

Kitahara and others speculated that this was the "field" mentioned by Taro Yusuhara.

"The English word for domain is zone, which is not a very complicated concept. There are relatively mature studies on this internationally, and I have had some exposure to it."

Inside the office, Taro Yusuhara distributed documents to Kitahara and others and introduced them slowly.

"To put it simply, it's a bit like what we call 'feel' when we do sports or play games... What sports or games do you like?"

Komiyayama raised his hand first to answer.

"I joined the tennis club in college."

"As for me, I joined the Kyudo Club," Kyoko Miyamura continued.

Kitahara thought about it.

"I usually mainly run, just like Oguruma and the others."

"But as for games, I've played them before." He was talking about things in another world.

"That explains it."

Yusuhara Taro nodded and held up his hands, "I was on the basketball team in high school and college, so I have a little experience in this field."

"I once participated in a college game. I was out of shape in the first quarter of the first half and my touch was very bad, which caused the team to lose opportunities and a lot of points."

"Although my coach and teammates didn't blame me, I blamed myself. Perhaps it was because of this mentality that I performed exceptionally well in the second quarter."

"It's hard to describe, but at that moment, I just knew or felt that I should dribble at this moment and shoot at that moment."

"Before I took the shot, I knew it was going to go in."

"That was the case. In that situation, I was lucky enough to make up for the mistake in the first quarter."

He smiled with some regret, "It's a pity that the opponent in that game was too strong, and our department still lost in the end, but..."

He said back, “That state is undoubtedly the field.”

At this time, Komiya spoke thoughtfully.

"If that's the case, I had a similar experience... It seemed to be a crucial tennis match, and I won that match. The feeling at that time was similar to what Brother Yusuhara described."

"I haven't experienced it, but..." Kyoko Miyamura thought for a moment: "In medicine or psychology, there should be such a professional field. Let me think..."

“Mental flow.”

Kitahara uttered a noun and looked at Yuhara, "Is this it?"

"Bingo."

Snapping his fingers, Yuhara nodded, "Shin-flow. What Kitahara-nii said, the translation is 'Shin-flow'."

"Former Soviet scholar Hanin has done special research on this."

"Based on field research, which measured state anxiety before and after competition, he proposed the hypothesis that 'each individual has an ideal functional zone' and believed that optimal athletic performance can be achieved when the individual's anxiety level is within this zone."

"The proper name for this section is Zone of Optimal Function, or the Zone as we know it in short."

"Subsequent related studies have also confirmed this."

"The famous psychologist Turner has a related paper, Anxiety and performance, which contains not only data but also a large number of introspective reports from professional athletes and horse racing girls."

"The literature mentions that when you enter mental flow or the zone, you will be very focused on the present moment and will not feel the passage of time or most stimuli from the outside world."

"In addition, the actions and consciousness completely overlap, there is no need to think, the body reacts automatically, the perception, movement and thinking abilities are greatly improved, the emotions are extremely pleasant and satisfied, and a strong sense of accomplishment and positive feedback are obtained... These are all typical manifestations of this state."

"According to what we learned from Xiaoyu before, the feeling she had at the end of the training match was very similar to the state she was in when she entered the field. I think it was because of this that she was able to adapt to the psychological shadow faster than expected."

"Brother Beiyuan, what do you think?"

Everyone else in the office turned their attention to Kitahara.

"I didn't know much about this field originally. I only learned this concept from anime and games." Kitahara smiled bitterly at first.

“Ah, this concept does exist in anime.”

Taro Yusuhara also laughed, "But that kind of expression is too exaggerated. The real field does not have that kind of special effect."

"Otherwise, with Xiaoyu's strength, her special effects must be very gorgeous. I'm afraid her future games will be in a science fiction style."

Because of Yusuhara's joke, the office was filled with cheerful laughter for a while.

After laughing, Kitahara thought: "If I were to express my opinion, I actually have a question."

He looked at Yuhara and said, "You said that there is mature research internationally. Is there such a hypothesis?"

"Assume that this area is controllable, that is, it can be entered autonomously."

Speaking of this, Kitahara became a little excited.

He still remembers the scene when Oguruma made his debut.

In that race, Oguruma made a mistake at the start, but only burst out with terrifying leg strength in the last 200 meters or so, winning the championship.

At that time, Kitahara mistakenly thought that it was similar to the "inherent skills" in the game, such as "Victory Incitement Lv5" or something like that, but now combined with what Yuhara said, it is very likely a state similar to the field.

The reason why it is similar is that Oguruma said that at that time she thought about other people's expectations of her, so she tried to catch up, which is different from the situation in the field.

However, no matter how Oguri's situation at the time was defined professionally, Kitahara believed that similar situations, especially in the field, would be very beneficial to all subsequent training and competitions if they could be controlled independently.

Tamamo Cross's performance in the training match has proved that the field can greatly improve all aspects of the physical level, especially speed. As long as this is mastered, the chances of winning any game will be much greater.

However, under Kitahara's expectant gaze, Yusuhara Taro shook his head with regret.

(End of this chapter)