yes but how can you practice such a simple thing like dashing??!!
How do you hold the stick, with a âwineglassâ grip, between ring and pinky or just hand lying straight flat? I dash right by tapping fingers and dash left with my thumb. I wonder if thatâs right or not.
It amazes me that people can play with a pad worth a damn. When I first got sf4 I was playing with a pad & felt I was getting worse the more I used the pad. I eventually had to mod my SFA stick so I could play properly. Once I did that I could finally start pulling off FADC to ultra & have decent execution. But if you are good with a pad just use that, sell your stick on ebay while they are still worth something.
When you are on 1p side you should dash by placing your index and middle finger on the ball and make 2 quick flicks of the wrist. When youâre on the other side you can do it with your thumb and let the quick return to center from the stick help you. When you use the thumb to dash, you almost do a turn of the wrist. First you can push left with your thumb, then turn your wrist like youâre opening a door for the second push to the left.
If you canât do it you need to practice.
Double tap the stick in the direction you are trying to dash until you have it down.
I feel your pain (no homo). I have been a pad player all my life, until 5 months ago. It was about the time I started getting back into 3s, prior to SF4 launch. I realized that my level of play would not reach much higher user a pad, so I hooked up my trusty old DC arcade stick and just started to practice jumps, cross jumps, blocks, hadouken, shoryuuâs and everything. Between starting to practice, having enough confidence to play online and everything it was about 2 months.
To get used to the stick (I got a HRAP.EX for the 360) I started using Guile when SF4 came out. Charge character, easy to control, defensive so you get used to the feel blocking and jumping. 2 weeks later, I start with Ryu (Ryu was always my main with a pad) and now I cannot conceive playing with a pad. Things like links, ultras and some more advanced combos are just easier with a stick due to the layout.
Now you will think that life sucks, that sticks are overrated and you want to get back to your pad. DONT!
Give it a few weeks and eventually you will get used to it. As I said, I would never ever go back to a pad again.
Wineglass for me, if I grab it in my hands (like when you jerk off, lol) it is just too unprecise. Wineglass lets you tap quicker, and perform quicker motions and doesnt tire your hand so much.
haha, thanks for the encouragement and motivational pep talks. I seriously wanted to go back to pad every time Iâd miss a simple execution that I could have done with my eyes closed on pad. I gotta keep at it I guess. Itâs all about the training mode. I have to go back to basics. Iâm just practicing the standing fierce into dp so that I can pull it off consistently and get the feel of it on stick. Then Iâm moving to jumpin RH into s.Fierce xx DP. Then I can tack on the FADC after that once I get more comfortable.
hmm on the right side, i get 70% of my fadcs off. on the right about 5%. with pad, both sides 98.587382%.
But, the problem is that i can train the fadc stuff all day long and i wont be able to do it 100% with stick. should i maybe start with the easier thing to learn? :S
^^^^^
like all things in life you gotz to crawl before you walk
just keep at it
get the basics down first. normal movement should be mastered before you take on any advanced stuff
after that move on to special moves. you should be throwing fireballs one after the other without screwing up. so on and so onâŚ
and if your having problems playing from a certain sideâŚdouble the effort
nobody knows pad playing like meâŚyou just gotz to practice, practice, practice
can you guys really play both sides the same? i feel much more confident with my thumb on the stick. the index and middle finger suck
It took me about a week to transition. I just played some friends on GGPO while waiting for my PS2->PS3 converter, and then went online. I went from winning about half my matches on pad to winning at least 4/5 if not more on stick. When you have the mentality that you canât make the transition, you wonât be able to. If you stop worrying and just get your simple motions down, and break your character back to a plain play style, youâll have an easier time.
ok seriously it pisses me off. im still sooo bad on the left side. please can someone send a video or a photo on how he dashes??!!! im really desperate. everything i pull off on the left feels so cheap
I have a real tough time getting QCFx2 on the left side. My hands are just retarded or something.
Have the same problem but its getting better. What you should try is keeping the keeping infront of the stick and the finger behind it, kinda like a wineglass just angled different. When doing QCF try to guide your fingers with the thumb [ which is on top of the stick ]
OK HONESTLY! DO YOU GUYS HOLD THE STICK WITH THE HOLE HAND OR JUST WITH TWO FINGERS? With two fingers its impossible to dash!!! Please any photo 
lol thank god, a whole thread where people have the same problem.
Been using stick for a couple weeks after years of being on pad. Very disheartening. Even had to change mains (cannot use shotos for shit now, so now use charged).
I really think it depends on the person. Some people pick it up in a week or two, some 6 months. I reckon I am in the 6 month catagory.
It makes me laugh though, I am all holding the stick like Im a jerkin off, then I see the pros and its barely looks like they are moving their stick at all.
ad1swiss, try the wineglass thing people mentioned.
Thats the one I am using and I see a dramatic improvment. I find that the trick is to move the actual stick and not the ball top since it rotates if you know what I mean.
I sort of used my middle finger, index finger, and thumb to grab the ball and do it that way. I mean naturally youâre going to see super pros with very specialized movements, but Iâd say just walk up to your stick and assume the playing position, what ever you do naturally is what you should do all the time.
Just noticed this thread, i got my SE stick on Friday and started using it at about 12pm⌠i went to sleep at about 5:30am haha. I can honestly say I sucked and couldnât even pull off Hadoukens consecutively anyway after a couple of days with this thing iâve become much better.
I was trying to pull off the srk, fadc, ultra with Ryu all of yesterday and kept firing out the metsu waaay before my opponent landed, was trying to do the combo so fast. Since reading this post i calmed myself down a bit and didnt go mad when trying to dash out of the focus and just pulled off 2 srk>fadc>ultraâs in a row!
I feel so pro right now 
I dont understand this wineglass thing. It seems like no one wants to upload pics of this wineglass style. I just broke my fightpad, I threw it at a wall as I was losing against a blanka. I think Iâll stop playing street fighter. I played every street fighter with pad, and now i suck with both.