Thanks so much for the quick reply!
I know I jump too much, I just seem to face so many fireball - jump away - fireball - jump away - hurricane kick escape Ryus that I just wanted to get in. That also explains all the random exghs.
I should’ve used more spds I know, and failing that punish on the early srk was just stupid
Towards the end I was jumping loads because I was in a scrubby mood - I desperately wanted to finish him off with a blizzard 
I am definitely going to practise my footsies (currently I have none) and my max range spds.
Thanks again for all the advice!
Oh and one more thing - if I do jump, and we have an air to air, what is the best normal to use?
Max range SPDs, Punishes, footsies and Anti-Air Lariat. Don’t forget that, you’ll need it against opponents of any skill.
Btw, if they run away and throw fireballs, you should learn how to avoid them with Focus Absorbs, Lariat and neutral jumps. But I get your point, bad runaway Shotos are no problem for me, but they are annoying.
About the air-to-airs… well, that depends. Againt hurricane kicks, headbutt and j.mp work fine. But if your opponents do mostly heavy kicks in the air, I’d use j.hk, prefferably from max range. Jumping jab also works great, but not if they do j.hks very early. But normally, you shouldn’t be in too many air-to-air battles. I leave that to the Gen players.
Medium Punch is my go to air-to-air.
As for the runaway stuff, just be patient and minimize damage while working them to the corner, then sit on them at a little outside of max range lp spd and wait for them to make mistakes. If they walk forward mp, if they try to tatsu out j. headbutt, and if they are throwing fireballs you can reaction ex hand or jump over it from relatively close and get j. hp to combo/mixup/sweep. Occasionally mix this up with step forward lp spd. Gief has a really strong corner game.
Placed 2nd on a National Tournament here in Costa Rica. Thank you guys I have gotten and stolen some very good tricks here, enjoy:
Vs Kikin (abel) *He was the one who beat the cr@p out of me on the previous recorded tournament.
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Vs PBRKYO (Guile) *beat the cr@p out of me on the previous recorded tournament
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Vs Nano (Boxer) *Loosers finals
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Vs Amen (Jimmy) *My sparing partner =)
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*Any feedback will be apreciated 
First vid, last round. Epic scooping.
Third round versus Abel was just great. Makes me feel like a newbie watching it.
The final round was just ridiculous, though, wow.
My Gief vs Dhalsim
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That Dhalsim was ASS.
Yeah he was ass and also fadc’ing lariat is just a total waste of meter imo. You did it twice.
Honestly, I don’t know if you should really be lariating all that much to begin with. I mean it’s really just random and you are just hoping to catch the sniper for a free chance in there right?
Gotta really block in this matchup. Also jumping with Knees to anticipate/react to limbs from long range (kind of like parrying a limb with knees like 3S) is something I go for when they try to tag me with things like st. lp. Jumping mk/mp is good in this matchup to mix up knees.
On xbl however, I play this mu as Random as possible and lariat travel. Basically, I just troll since I can’t really walk and block online. It is actually really fun to do and I have like a 70% win percentage against Sim lol. Try it sometime if you are getting Salty about Sim.
Yeh too much lariat but the objective for me against Sim is to get in, this is the only matchup I’m not patient.
I’ll try jumping knees next time
Yeah, Knees can stuff Sim limbs and compresses Zangief’s hitbox a little bit.
I already thought that juri-gief was close to a 7-3 matchup, now I´m convinced…this is depressing:
Itabashi was jumping way too much but the match up is annoying my friend who mains Juri has been using those combos like crazy.
I saw that video a while ago and had to stop watching. I wouldn’t base that match-up on this though; I couldn’t understand why Itabashi kept jumping when he knew it could be countered into U2 so easily.
Lol I am pretty sure Kazunoko and the Shaggy Haired guy were baked. They were going hard in those snack foods and trolling with the beef jerky. 
As for the matchup it is definitely bad for Gief. Idk about Ultra 2 for Juri though, I mean Gief is pretty free to Juri’s overhead and low mixup in Feng Shui Engine. Itabashi didn’t respect Juri’s great Anti-Air game for some reason.
Hello Guys !
here is one of my matches
I’d appreciate some feedback 
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That Rose was a training dummy, real talk. There’s really no point in critiquing when you play such a bad opponent, just being honest. Basically, you hit him with a lot of gimmicky bs. You were doing random gh’s and terrible cr.rh’s that should’ve been punished every time but weren’t. He was doing totally unsafe drills which says he obviously has no clue what he’s doing and it was basically just a mess of a match. Again, just saying what I saw and not trying to be a dick or anything but I think most would agree.
tnx m8
i was hopping for a honest feedback, thats why i post this
i will post some more games l8ter…
You did fine. But that guy beat him self post a loss or a match vs someone using footsies.