Try not to make the movement so forceful.
All you need is a gentle double tap to the left or right and you should be dashing.
Of course it is, and you know it is, that’s why you’ve been thinking about it. Seriously, is there any doubt that the stick is superior? Anybody? If it wasn’t clearly so, wouldn’t top players be divided on the subject?
Maybe it isn’t strictly better, but at this point, you either need to accept that almost everybody that’s good thinks so, or stick to your guns and prove them all wrong, pad-warrior. :wgrin:
Also, I thought this question was answered just right earlier in the thread, and nobody acknowledged it. So, I’ll repeat:
i just did a test with my girlfriend. I gave her the stick and the pad (she never played sf before)
with the stick she was able to pull off hadokens within minutes consistently
with the pad she was unable even after trying about 10 mins 
damnit, my GF will play games like oblivion and fallout but I cant get her in on this… how’d you manage?
Come on now, everyone knows chicks are good with sticks.
hahahhahahahaha it was quite hard muhahahah
i managed to get 70-80% of my skill back but only if Im on the right side of the screen. On the left side I suck horribly. I dont know how to improve 
hey do you guys dash with your hand or with your hole arm???
Haha thats the exact problem I’m having. I realized my left thumb / wrist are just not fast enough when executing quarter c moves from that side. So I’ve switched to the pad for now. But i’m sure i’ll go back to stick (since i spent a bill for it lol )
Dont do that believe me. Im going thorugh the same thing I was so pissed first because I sucked so badly, and my Ryu is based on rushdown. I was so freaking slow it pissed me off, but after a week of playing you will slowly get used to it. Think of it, you have to relearn all the motions that are no problem with a pad, since you used a pad for your whole life, for all the games. Keep hanging in there and you will see the progress.
dashing’s pretty easy, gentle double tap forward is all thats needed, you don’t have to spam, or bring it back to neutral, just gentle double tap on the edge (small movements)
also, go to training mode, and practise special moves 100 times on each side, that way, it easier to execute moves/combos in matches (especially when its close)
I too had to adapt to a stick. In the beginning I was like “what the hell am I doing”, why not use the pad which seems easier to adapt to.
After a good month I saw the results; the perfect timing, the perfect combo’s w/o mashing buttons, very few ultra failures, FADC’s… and so on.
In my opinion a pad let’s you start higher in skill since it’s easier to adapt to, or in many cases: you just already know the pad mechanics because of previous console experiences. A stick will let you start at 0,0 skill which often causes frustration, which leads in to ‘giving up’. However, there is a point in skill where it’s simply put: STICK > pad. This can not be explained very well, you just have to experience it.
Thank you, i’m now motivated!
But, MadCatz-Sticks are out of stock. :sad:
and Gameshark dont deliver to europe.
I played 3rd strike on a pad casually for 5 years with no problem until one day I found myself working in an office with a 3rd strike arcade machine. Everyone would play on it daily, so i was forced to learn on an arcade stick. It took me about 1 week until I felt my gameplay was equal my pad skill.
However, 2 weeks in, I realized I was suddenly playing better than I ever was on a pad. Execution, reaction time, everything. Going back to pad after that was very handicapping.
I currently play SF4 on a pad because it’s very hard to get a stick where I live, but I’m playing my heart out because I know once I get my stick my gameplay is just gonna get that much better!
lol I talked with a proplayer from sfa3 and he told me that it takes about 1 year to adapt completly to stick 
Ehm, you do have to go back to neutral between 2xf for a dash. Maybe not in a sense where the joystick is actually physically in neutral/center, but the microswitch must release before it can click again, and that must in terms be regarded as neutral stage, since you’re not using any other switch in that moment.
Edit: If you’re not doing a neutral in between, you won’t dash.
That might be true for some, but it’s individual. Depends on how you work up your handdexterity. Maybe it will help if you are used to fine musclework, like from playing a musical instrument or other.
I’ve played stick in SF4 for two months, 2 weeks ago I started an exercise rutine similar to the 100-drill stuff, but also inserted dash-training. If you do it alot, and begin with warmup exercise and stretch your forearm muscles often, and remember to relax and breathe while doing hard stuff (like fadc-ultra to the right), you will improve ALOT in just a few weeks.
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Just got my TE stick 2 weeks ago for my PS3. But one thing more is pratic and more pratic… I still lose most online macths coz I can’t even doing Ryus Ultra from right side, left side no problem… Compare to PAD, just a noob… Let see how t doing after a month. hope better than PAD, coz I can still win with my PAD.
You should quit trying to play with the stick, you will never be able to do it…
People have been giving you advice on how to play with a stick and all you do is talk about how you can’t.
If your stick isn’t broken the problem is you…
Bite the bullet, quit complaining, sit down and spend a few hours at time practicing the same things over and over. If you can’t dash practice dashing, if you can’t throw fireballs practice fireballs.
Get the basic moves down.
Took me 3 months to get to my pad level with a stick.
I have a problem with dashing on the stick too, seems much faster to do on the pad.