I decided to try out a fightstick because I kinda struggle with the DP motion and fighting on the 2P side with a pad.
But with a fightstick it’s even harder to play. I fail to do simple stuff like low block and jump diagonally. I can barely pull off a fireball lol
I’ve been practising with it for like 2hours so far, but it feels like I’m going nowhere.
Is there any advice that can help me?
Keep at it. Honestly it takes at least a few months 2 truly get used 2 playin on stick. Go into training mode a try and do 10 hadokens in a row and if u mess one up start again. Also u have 2 find the proper way 2 hold the stick. go into YouTube and search fightstick tutorials
hi
just keep playing, dont matter the result, just feel the movement during the motions
dont worry about what position to hold, keep your eyes on screen and your hands will adjust to a natural comfortable grip
also play other games with the stick, try playing some platformers on a snes emulator, or a shmup on a neo geo emulator
you will adjust, give it time
Wow. I imagined I would be comfortable with a stick in days or maybe a week or two at most, but months… 
I’ve looked at ways some people hold sticks but when I try it, it doesn’t feel like I have full control. Feels like I’m just touching the stick.
When transitioning from pad to stick/stick to pad…it’s like basically starting over.
I don’t think so. I’m not comfortable with a stick, but it’s not like it was with my first time ever using a pad.
When I try to do Juri’s axe kick. The inputs show down, down, LK over and over again. How??? How is down down even possible unless you let go and push down again. I did this motion successfully on my first try when I was a kid and probably could’ve done that motion in my sleep after the first try.
I might sell this stick very soon 
You can’t give up after a few hours. You have to build muscle memory first. Practice, practice, practice, practice, and practice so more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXP0kc9Sry8
This might help.
don’t give up and sell the stick man. you’ll be missing out. i played in the arcades when i was younger like 15 years ago, and i just got my first fight stick this february when i got sf5. i’d say it took 2 months to get decent with it. you have to go into training mode and practice a lot. it’s worth it though man. now here in september i’m a pro with it and i’m able to do complex movements in kof and other games. learning to use a stick is like learning to use a guitar. think about how much people have to practice to get decent with a guitar. the moves and combos of the game you’re playing are like learning the music notes to play. If you’re just dicking around with fighting games every so often then by all means stick with pad. but if you want to take the hobby seriously a fight stick is definitely the way to go. now there are people like nuckledu who play on friggin ps2 pads. to me that’s just an unwillingness to accept change or to learn something new. don’t give up man really. it will get easier the more and more you practice. sorry for the long read.
Thanks. This video is helpful, but I’m still trying to find a way of holding a stick that feels right.
I don’t want to give up but it’s kinda frustrating when I can’t do a basic motion. Yesterday I was successfully doing a fireball motion like 1 out of 20/30+ tries and I had to stop playing because it was too sad. The more I try, the worse I feel.
Sticks don’t magically make you better at the game. It takes just as much work as when you learned to play on a pad. Stick with it. My main problem when learning to play on a stick was when to stop my motions so I could perform quarter circles without jumping forward. But there are definite advantages you just don’t get on a pad. Not the least of which is a layout that facilitates hitting buttons quickly without needing to hit triggers or shoulder buttons, as well as several advanced techniques that just don’t work on pads.
My main piece of advice would be to mix it up. Just sitting there grinding fireballs and DPs will just bore you and make you feel like shit when you don’t do as well as you’d like. Try stuff you had a hard time with on a pad. I couldn’t reliably hit 720s until I switched to a stick, for example, so suddenly my grapplers felt a million times better. The same thing went for double half circles and mash moves.
I knew it wouldn’t make me better. I chose to get a stick because I could never play fighting games seriously because when I’m on 2P side it just suddenly feels awkward for some reason and I just couldn’t master the DP motion. It came out like 75% of the time but I could do other stuff 100%.
Playing on 2P side doesn’t feel awkward with a stick now, but I can’t do any motions now.
I don’t know what else I should try practising so I can mix it up. I want to main Juri and she doesn’t have any of those motions. So I’m stuck doing fireballs and DPs over and over again and feeling like shit just like you said.
You have to pay more attention to what your hand does initially. Don’t just try to do a motion, pay attention to exactly how the stick needs to move to do the motion. Do it slowly, then gradually faster. Listen to the sounds of the microswitches and learn how big and small of a motion you can make with the stick and still trigger those inputs.
You are training muscles that normally didn’t do this before. Anyone who has played the most basic games for years can smush their thumb across a D-pad easily enough, even if you didn’t play FGs before. Stick takes a small learning curve at the start but you never have to repeat it when learning new games in the future.
Have you tried a Sanwa restrictor? It was better for me
First time I ever heard of this. I don’t think I can use it. I think I remember someone telling me that you can mod expensive sticks but you can’t do that with cheaper ones. I have that SFV Alpha stick
Plus in the description it says “Quarter-circle, half-circle and full 360 motions no longer take effort or feel unnatural…”
Do people really use this? o.O Kinda sounds like cheating
No offense, but you probably need a better stick. That alpha stick is tiny… no wonder it’s hard to do motions on that thing. Send it back and get a hori rap or madcatz te if you can, you’ll like that one a thousand times more.
I don’t even think the alpha stick has real arcade parts in it.
You should get a Madcatz TES at least. It´s much better and you will feel the difference. They were on sale for 149.99 on Amazon 1 month ago
Get a HRAP 4 Kai with the Hayabusa buttons.
I felt I was having problems because the stick was too small but I thought I was just telling myself that to feel better.
I guess I’ll return it and get a better fight stick when I can.
Yeah, that might be a good idea. My first stick was a budget PS2 stick that online reviews said “you couldn’t feel the difference with a more expensive one”. Once I got a real one, I totally could even though I was even worse bac then than I am now. I played on that stick for like six months, and it did teach me the fundamentals of using a stick, but I did realize that having cheap buttons and a slightly wonky stick led to unnecessary input errors and a general feeling of “wrongness”. I’ve tried it recently and it works fine if you just want to play around a little, but it doesn’t feel good, if that makes any sense. Like even if I hit my combos and inputs, it doesn’t feel satisfying, and I think a big part of playing on a stick for me is just the positive reinforcement of it just feeling good to hit buttons and waggle the stick. Slapping a button on a fight stick just feels more rewarding than hitting R1 on a PS3 controller to me.
But anyway, if you’re going to go for a stick, you should probably like fighting games enough that you’re willing to sink at least around 150-200 bucks into the hobby, because I’d say that’s the lower end of high end fight sticks. You don’t need to mess around with custom parts or anything, but at least get one with some money sunk into it. Otherwise I’d say just stick with a pad.
this post is right on point. also, if you like to use shotos or characters that have dps and fireball motions, you may want to get an octogate for whatever joystick comes in the new stick you eventually get. some people say you should start on square gate but i started on octo gate and when i made the switch like 2 weeks after using square i felt like i was let loose from being encumbered is all I can say to describe it. just a suggestion. good luck dude…