I have taught many people to play SF. I have 2 sons who are now 12 and 16 who are now getting into it heavy. They are on a mission to beat dad. They surprize me with the stuff they learn as they practice together. About 6 of us get together every thursday for fight night. My sons look forward to it every week
I did a custom stick for my oldest and my youngest will get one once he is ready, which is soon. He is already able to combo into raging demon in a fight I'm so proud of him. :sad: They will both soon beat me unmercifully. The student must always surpass the teacher. We love this game !!
You guys play 3s together? Man that must be the best thing in the world. I look forward to playing sf with my kids one day.
Back to the topic, I think it’s really difficult to teach someone SF. Good SF players IMO have to teach themselves, search out the forums, vids, and competition to further their skill level.
I’ve tried to teach my roommates but they all get discouraged and quit when I beat them. If I hold back they get cocky and that annoys me so I dont hold back too often.
Yeah, i’m good teacher of stuff in general. I’m very good at explaining things.
But really, you can teach and teach, but the other person still has to listen.
It would be so awesome if you named your kids Akuma and Gouken. But then, you’d kind of be sealing your own fate… like when a kid is named Jeeves. Sooner or later, he’s going to become a butler.
I taught my cousin the fundamentals of how to play Street Fighter 2 and Alpha 3. He sucked at first but now has become a worthy opponent. He learned quick too. I was like how did you learn all these combos and moves so quick. Some I didn’t even know. He replied, “Google, bitch.”
I remember when my friend introduced me to CVS2. I was like “man this shit sucks” because he beat me all the time. Then I went all SVC (when it came out) and played that non stop until I found out it was retarded. Then I borrowed CVS2 from my friend and kept practicing. I was still pretty shitty back then and used crappy characters like Terry haha. I remember those times when I was having so much trouble doing a fireball and a dragonpunch.
I was like “WTF IS Z??” you know how the pictures show a Z when they teach you how to do a dragonpunch.
I remember the first time I did the Sakura CC. Shit I was happy as fuck.
Totally teaching the game to someone is hard (matchups, frames, the game’s system, etc). But teaching them the basics is easy. I have never taught a person how to fully play a game because I’m still learning it myself. But sharing strategies and tactics, I do that all the time.
I consider myself lucky, I had a World Warrior arcade cab set on free play at my afterschool program so I got some practice there.
Another thought, you can’t fully teach a person the game because they have to learn some of the things themselves, otherwise, they’d just be a clone of you.
My sons and I play 3rd Strike all the time. I am not even bottom tier level but we love the game. Life steals away practice time. Most times I just read Faq’s on my PSP while working. This week was great New game & good fights.
Plus we just got alpha and reminising oh the good old days. Any SF’ers in Jersey wanna hook up PM me. we have 6 steady ppl Me my 2 sons and 3 buddies.
If you think about it… SF in general keeps strong when we teach those who know not the way of Shoryuken.
Iv taught several of my friends to play streetfighter but none of them ever reached my level but they were beating everyone else they played so i figure a few of them will catch me someday i already passed the guy who taught me now he just sits back and watchs me stomp his boys