How Do You Hold The Arcade Stick?

Classic Fighting Games Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
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I am quite new to playing arcade games. And I have a problem with holding the stick.

At first I realised quickly that putting your palm on top of the ball makes it hard to do any moves.
So I changed my grip. But I still have the problem of not being able to control it properly. It is embarrasing to say, but when I try to do a hadouken from the right of the screen to the left, I often end up jumping forward instead. This is because my hand does not seem to move the stick left when I try to, instead it goes left-up.

Also, I have difficulty doing hadouken movement left to right (down, right + punch). I have to move the ball kind of in a quarter circle away from my hand to do that. It is really hard to do it for me.

How I am holding the stick now is with my thumb on the side of the ball close to me. and my index, middle and ring finger on the other side of the ball.

What is a good way of holding the arcade stick for fighting games like 3S ?

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put three finger around the ball and your pinki behind the stick thumb on top of your index, or if u want use two fingers around the ball.

when i do left to right hadoukens i lift my arm and push my rist sort of way.

iv’e seen seen people use index and thumb and leave their other three out .

theres a thread somewhere like this but i can’t find it.

so just try them out

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hold it like a wine glass.

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this man speaks the truth

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this thread reappears every 6 months.

ill go ahead and post the obligatory “like my dick”.

search function people, seriously.

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The thing about it though is there is no definite answer besides “whatever is comfortable for you.” There isn’t one position that is going to make all your moves 1000x easier to do.

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I kind of hold it like a pencil…except it’s a pencil that’s shaped like a ball. Index and middle fingers touching the ball, with the thumb touching the other side.

You’re probably just underestimating how sensitive your stick is. Sit for hours in training mode dashing back and forth, doing hadokens, SRKs, etc, until you know the exact motions. That’s what I did.

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This is true, but some people still have problems deciding what’s more comfortable for them. For example, when I started playing, I used to hold it at the top of the ball, and that was “most comfortable for me”, namely because I knew of no other way. Then someone showed me the whole wine glass method, and it was weird at first but I find it infinitely times better than the “palm on top of ball” method. Recently I’ve been told there’s an even better method where only the fingertips touch the ball or something, which supposedly makes execution smoother, but I think it’s too late for me to adjust to a new style now.

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In my feet.

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My biggest problem is smoothly doing hadouken from left to right, consistently. My fingers find it hard making the stick go in a circular movement. I am starting to think people use their wrist rather than fingers for that. Is this true?

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well. i take it ur using a jap/lollilop stick soo

yeah like a wine glass like the guy said and ur thumb supporting it at the top. i hold lollipop sticks like i would a pencil, making an O shape with ur index finger and thumb

but i use a MAS stick (bat/american layout). so i do, index and middle finger around + thumb around to close it. then my ring/pinkie just spposed at the bottom so i dont fuck up :tup:

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So is the wine glass hold putting the stick between your index and middle finger and thumb on top?
Or is it putting the stick between your middle and ring finger and thumb on top?

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middle and ring finger, you dont have to put the thumb on top.

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Can someone show me a video of them doing shit with the Wine Glass method? I dunno it just seems like moving a thick piece of metal between two fingers would be really uncomfortable.

Also, how would you move up and down with the wine glass method?

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I hold Japanese sticks like how Daigo does.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fGkpNI_aRmo

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Daigo holds it pretty weird IMO. It’s like he’s so worried he’s going to make a mistake that he doesn’t touch the buttons or the stick until he actually wants to do something.

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With that method, can you give me some examples of how you use it?
Which part of the fingers do u contact the ball with? The finger tips?
If you want to do a shoryuken, how does your fingers, hand and arm move?

Also, with the wine glass grip, which part of the fingers are you holding the ball with,the very tip ?

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How Daigo is in that vid isn’t wierd. That’s how I do it. Only thing is I don’t double tap buttons as much as he does.

Why do you need someone to teach you anyhow? I’ve never understood that. I’ve been playing fighting games since sf2ww came out. No one showed me. Just grab the thing and do it lol.

And if that fancy wine glass shit works for you, then do that. Shit, do the infamous cross arms if ya want. Just grab the thing and practice. Your body will learn.

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I also play like daigo does. the stick holding part at least.

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is every one ona ball top ?
i have the american bat stick, im really havent trouble doing QCF from LEFT TO RIGHT
and have trouble doing d,b +K moves RIGHT TO left,

the most irritating problem is tapping the stick to dash and i cannot do that properly either to reach right to left