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They do, but you can prevent it by getting a blood transfusion with younger blood.
I don't know. I'm 34 and I'm better at games now than I ever was.
Daigo Umehara is about my age and he stills seems to be one of the top Street Fighter players.
It probably depends person to person though.
Of course reflexes (skills I will absolutely dispute) generally decline with age but the guy is talking about a specific age bracket in relation to a niche competition.
This isn't the god damn Olympics where people are red lining their bodies and accumulating years of injuries until the point comes where they can't compete anymore. It is a videogame competition where the only thing that moves are a competitor's fingers and eyeballs.
Of course people in the 16-25 age range will dominate those competitions: They've got copious amounts of spare time to condition themselves to become experts at their game of choice (and let's face it, it usually is just one game). People beyond that age usually have more pressing concerns and interests.
We find no evidence for the common belief expertise should attenuate domain-specific cognitive decline. Domain-specific response time declines appear to persist regardless of skill level.
Finally, an exploratory analyses of other age-related differences suggests that older participants may have been compensating for a loss in response speed through the use of game mechanics that reduce cognitive load.
Yup, and this phenomena isn't exclusive to gaming.
You age hit your physical peak and then everything declines.... then u die.
Here's a study Titled:
Over the Hill at 24: Persistent Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times in an Ecologically Valid Video Game Task Begins in Early Adulthood
I am 40 and been playing since Atari 2600 days and I can tell you that the only thing deteriorating is my patience and motivation
Boxers don't peak in their early twenties usually. Mayweather and a lot of others fight well into their thirties. I just wonder if games are less forgiving than real sports in that regard. Nobody is post prime at 25 in any physical sports.
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Well I imagine at 50 years old, there is a good change could happen. Not before.
I am 40 and been playing since Atari 2600 days and I can tell you that the only thing deteriorating is my patience and motivation
No reflexes in general across both sports and esports drop off in the late twenties . In thirties most ppl compensate with strategy . Very few ppl last into their forties unless they are by ridiculously talented/strategic . 50 ? Professional sports /esports ? Who the fuck you kidding ? Or maybe you're from te future .
I am 43 and this conversation is bullshit, the only thing that changes is how much time you can devote to it and how it ranks in your priorities. I spend about 40 hours a week gaming, but as far as where it ranks in importance, it is dead last on the list. You can get out of practice, and there are far less people my age or older that play regularly. But it's not a matter of can we compete, it's more why the hell would we want to?
Check out Bernard Hopkins
http://livehealthy.chron.com/men-women-reach-physical-peak-2652.html and check out essentially any other athletes careers post 35 .
Check out Bernard Hopkins
Wait? I'm past that point lol.
Do skills and reflexes actually deteriorate with age?
The fuck? Play a vg now it's a sport? I doubt I could notice change before 50 years old (if I continue to play vg). For now, I didn't noticed anything of particularly different in my reflexes compared the past. And I'm almost 40 years old (well not exactly but I'm not so distant).No reflexes in general across both sports and esports drop off in the late twenties . In thirties most ppl compensate with strategy . Very few ppl last into their forties unless they are by ridiculously talented/strategic . 50 ? Professional sports /esports ? Who the fuck you kidding ? Or maybe you're from te future .
There are always extreme ends of the bell curve when there are such a massive amount of humans.
It's weird that people are giving their own anecdotes of whether their reflexes have changed over decades. It's impossible to know because there are so many other variables that have entered over that time, add to that the fallibility of memory and it's just a messy anecdote that means nothing. Without a time machine to visit your earlier self and have a large series of trials to determine what's changed then you're just being hopeful (or pessimistic). And even if you could do that, it wouldn't be significant to answering the question because it's a sample size of 1!
Are there any studies on this? Most people in esports are 16-25 at which age they oftentimes retire or vanish into obscurity. Is it because +25yo can't keep up with the up and comers or is it because people at that age just shift their priorites and are less dedicated on average?
Last week Fear, a 27 years old Dota player, won the tournament with highest price pool in esports history so I wonder if age is actually relevant when it comes to reflexes.
Is there something like a physical prime for players in competitive games?
Which point? If you think you've reached a point from which aging doesn't affect you, I've got bad news for you.
I notice the prize pools are pretty good, maybe they just quit once they make enough money :/
As for getting older and skills going down, nah, I still got the moves from the old days just need to shake off a little of the rust
I notice the prize pools are pretty good, maybe they just quit once they make enough money :/
As for getting older and skills going down, nah, I still got the moves from the old days just need to shake off a little of the rust