Do what I do, post both. Posting wins may not have as much to say about what you did wrong than loss movies would but it allows people to highlight what (if anything) you did right - Let’s face it, you can still play badly and win in some cases so it’s always open to critique. In my eyes, just because I win a fight doesn’t mean I played good, just that I won.
Then again I always was a self depreciating bastard when it comes to games but I stand by my self-view.
just brought pc SFIV, dont know why but i won most of the game compared to ps3 maybe some people are using keyboards to play… anyway some videos of my matches
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will update again soon!
I played you yesterday, shame you didn’t record that one considering it was pretty close, Balrog mirrors stink, though.
If you’re used to PS3 then you’ll massacre most of the PC players, it’s not just that most play on KeyBoard (like myself) but the game came out so late and they’re often way behind the console players bar some who play on Console + PC (Very few).
really? did you use the same ID as this? anyway these 3 days of my sfiv (pc) time i only met 2 rogs one of them is you and both of them are really good. maybe u wanna add me and we’ll play some time.
you got a point there didnt thought of it, on pc sfiv is really much better, no much lag and always manage to find 3 bars and above unlike psn where i get to play like 1 match every 30minutes of countless refreshing.
pls delete this, accidentaly double post
wait for the cross up and work on ex focus shielding it and dash back…now they cant jump in safely and theyre pressure disapears…u reset the game…congrats 
Yep my in-game name is RopeDrink and I recognized your name, pretty much remember it being a first round whitewash to you due to me being hyper aware of Balrogs and the fact that 95% of them on GFWL love random headbutts or just nonsense shinanigans so it was a case of sussing out more than anything, remember you kept on decent pressure and the occasional throw mixed in though I seem to remember returning the favour then getting a very lucky chip win in R3 - Quite literally could have gone either way. You can be sure you’re better than 75% of any other Rog’s you might fight against though suprisingly there are a number of very decent ones on GFWL at the higher end, too.
Welcome to the platform, though - Always nice to see more SRK posters using GFWL version considering PSN/XBL is pretty much the staple choice 
some new updates
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getting lazy to record
1st vid:
-Jumping back on Rufus’ wake-up might seem like a good idea for beating ex jesus kick, but it leaves you open to an ultra juggle if the Rufus player catches on. Don’t overuse it.
-safe jumps and meaty cr. jabs beat all of Rufus’ wake up options. Everything either gets stuffed or comes out slow enough for you to recover and block. The only thing you have to worry about is ex messiah because you have to guess a bit on what follow-up Rufus is going to use.
2nd vid:
Looks like a standard scrub beat down. Nothing much to say about the vid, except be wary of jumping forward over fireballs when Akuma has ultra. Aside from that it doesn’t seem like you need any advice thrashing flowchart Akumas. Maybe it’s time to look for better competition in that department?
thanks for the tips really appreciate.
didnt thought of cr.jabs to beat wake up options.
i guess so thats y i asked if pc players were more new to the game, i just bought the game recently for pc and dont have much buddies to play with but i will try to improve with advice… thx man
I just played my first tournament and lost both of my first matches. I guess it’s a learning experience but here’s a video if you guys could help with some of your criticisms. I have to admit I do not know the Fuerte match up at all and it really showed.
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the best advice i can give you isnt match up related but playstyle related : slow down. you played very panicky and seemed to recklessly jump in at some points, you also pressed c.hp WAY to early every time. like the moment there feet left the ground you would press it. you gotta slow down how you play and not get jittery from being in a tournament. but i can say you started playing the ken smarter in the later half of the match, when he would whiff f+mk you would sweep him, thats not bad except that good kens wont do it that far out.
but don’t get discouraged. my first tourney i played alot similar to how you played. i went 0-2 for the first three tourneys i went to, but then i started hitting training really hard. and i started to notice the mistakes i would make in a match, and because of that i went 3-2 in the following tournament and have started to be a more consistent placer over all.
but it takes alot of time to get to a point where the jitters stop. hell i was just at final round ( biggest southern tournament there is) and on the first day of the team tournament i played like i just picked the game up , but after the first day my jitters were completely gone.
so over all just start to play more patiently, and get in as many casuals before a tournament starts as you can. i find that to be great to get my jitters out. and you have already taken a great step, and thats noticing that you can learn from your loses, that shows that you have great potential to become a better player
Here’s a vid of a G2 game. I played against some below average Sagat. It’s nothing special…you can comment on it if you want to. I’ll post more vids coming up soon since I play against some pretty good players that are on my friends list. Also, since I don’t have a vid capture card, I used my digital camera for now. The quality came out pretty better than I thought.
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Double Post. 
I just watched the ken video not the fuerte. However, your links are not tight and there are extreme holes in your strings. Ken was able to srk you every time you were on the offensive. That being said your defense was extremely week. You just need to block more and actually wait for opportunities to attack. All of us played exactly like you when we first started going to real competitions - we all were too much aggro and not enough defense. This game and our character in particular require less aggro intensity and more precision. We are heavily punishable, yet we have the ability to punish among the hardest in the cast. Pick and choose when to be on the offensive - especially against a character such as ken who wants to be all aggro as well. Balrog’s defense is his strongest attribute and you are not utilizing it yet.
A good way to practice this is during your practice sessions - when you have a big lead stop going offense. Just let your training partners go on the offensive. It will test and level up your defense. It will likely frustrate you as you feel you are losing matches you shouldn’t be - but it’s training, these loses will lead to wins in real environments when you’ve properly stepped up your game.
I really appreciate this post. My defense has also been lacking as of late mainly because my ground game is so strong that I haven’t been put into many defensive positions, and if I do its not long before I steal the momentum back. So that said my anti-air and wake up defense has been suffering from playing against people who don’t pressure me enough. I’ll be taking your advise and turtle alittle bit more just to get my blocking, absorbs, and AA timing solid so that I can go back and forth alot easier.
VS. both Ken and Fuerte you let them have complete control of the match. They controlled where you were on screen and the pace of the match, etc. You let Ken score way too many jump ins, and reversal DPs and you let Fuerte do whatever he wanted. VS. Fuerte I’m extremely aggressive chasing him down the entire time with light/medium dash lows on his runs and catching him with some meaty Dash Swing Blow -> Cr. HK. Everytime he takes to the air you can stuff all his moves with either Cr. HP/Buffalo Head(Light seems to work best)
But 1st and foremost… WORK ON THOSE COMBOS. Every time you scored a hit you didn’t follow it up properly. Balrog’s solid combos and mix-ups is what makes him such a great character. Make every LP, Jump-in, DSB, etc. count by making sure you follow up properly. Balrog’s DSB (Dash Swing Blow) is his best move IMO. After you put in the ground work and shut down their offense this move dominates. DSB -> Cr. LK/Cr. MP -> H. Buffalo Head -> Ultra, has won me countless matches.
I disagree with your thoughts on DSB.
IMHO DSB does not dominate, and there’s no way that it’s Balrog’s best move. It’s a very high risk move at mid-level play and onwards.
To each his own I guess. If everyone played the same it wouldn’t be much fun. Works very well for me, especially throwing out a quick ex DSB during a block string to catch someone off guard, or as a nice reset after a EX upper loop. But I may have let my personal liking of the donkey punch exaggerate how it “dominates”. Its the polar opposite of the EX Rush Upper, and it has a solid place in Balrog’s arsenal. High risk or not.
Props to OP. I just recently found out about this thread. -.- I read quite a few pages of posts and they are very enlightening. The problems and solutions I read all fits me. Hopefully reading all this would help me improve my game somewhere! Awesome thread!