But to seed that clarity, Shedge believes, the key lies in preparation: stay calm to birth the chaos. “The calmness and patience you get comes from the preparation,” he says. “If your mind is not prepared, you will start to overthink and get hyper. If you’ve done everything you could, and get on the field with clarity, leaving everything aside and focus on your efforts, that gives you a lot of calmness. That work can only be done at practise. Once you enter the field, you have to let the situation take over and back your instincts.”
