Footsie Training Drill

[CaptainGinyu]

https://youtu.be/1qIJT6WBzks

This is a simple way of training your ground game in training mode solo.

It is universal, and is great for beginners trying to learn to whiff punish as well as veteran players that wish to quickly and efficiently cover multiple disciplines. It’s main goal is to provide a realistic environment that promotes reacting rather than anticipating. It can be expanded on by replacing jumps with something else. For example, replacing the jump-in with a fireball instead so you can practice reacting to it with your go-to FB punish while still focusing on the ground game.

Hope this helps!

Good video! I haven’t touched USF4 since summer when I sold my 360 but your video is really helping me level in Xrd against characters with incredible pokes that keep me on the defense like Sin.

[Mafamaticks]

So even if I disrupt the recording with a whiff punish, I know that he will only ever jump either immediately after my whiff punish, or after a low forward.

That’s why you disrupt it with just more than 1 whiff punish. You disrupt it with jump in combos, throws, ultras, block stun, etc. Sometimes, that jump HK turns into a sweep.

And also, when you record, you don’t just press cr. MK. You can mash it, you can buffer it into a special, you can hold up during the animation, you can do all sorts of stuff.

So when you disrupt it with more than just one move, you can get a wide variety of results from the dummy.

It isn’t perfect, but it’s better than what you’re describing.

[ilitirit]

I’ve definitely always wanted an option in training mode where I could record a bunch of different options and the game would play them back randomly. would help tremendously in practicing footsies, oki, or oki defense. I know 3s training mode doesn’t do this - are there any training modes that do?

Guilty Gear, SFV

[Sinister0n3]

I usually just throw the dummy to CPU on hardest.

Same here. Then I’ll play games with the AI. No jumping, only use X normal, etc…

[Sinister0n3]

To practice Rose’s Reflect I always train against hardest AI Sagat. He will chuck plasma if you stand half screen away, no matter what. So it’s a nice random pattern of low, high, ex tiger shots.

[DelayedWakeUp]

So even if I disrupt the recording with a whiff punish, I know that he will only ever jump either immediately after my whiff punish, or after a low forward.

That’s why you disrupt it with just more than 1 whiff punish. You disrupt it with jump in combos, throws, ultras, block stun, etc. Sometimes, that jump HK turns into a sweep.

And also, when you record, you don’t just press cr. MK. You can mash it, you can buffer it into a special, you can hold up during the animation, you can do all sorts of stuff.

So when you disrupt it with more than just one move, you can get a wide variety of results from the dummy.

It isn’t perfect, but it’s better than what you’re describing.

“Brick don’t hit back” - Chong Li

[nevillebamshew]

@ilitirit

Original video recorded two low forwards, a jump in, then 2 more low forwards.

So even if I disrupt the recording with a whiff punish, I know that he will only ever jump either immediately after my whiff punish, or after a low forward.

You sure about that?