Mistakes aren’t the problem. Carrying them into the next ball is. The reset is four moves, about six seconds, and it’s the difference between one bad pass and ten bad minutes.
name it — one word, to yourself. frustrated. angry. embarrassed. breathe out — one long exhale. the word leaves with it. next ball — say it. that’s the whole sentence. head up — find three things: nearest teammate, nearest opponent, the ball.
That’s it. Practise it now, while nothing hurts — the timer feeds you misses to reset from:
The last round uses a real miss — your most recent one. If it still stings, it still needs reps.
progression. it’s learned here, but it lives in games. next match, use it once for real and notice: how many touches until you were back? that number shrinking is the whole skill.
background: the next minute — coming back from a mistake