Sabin SF4 Japan Q/A - match of the day: Barfights II

competition is tighter out here since its a urban area where arcades are abundant.
i really learned a lot out here. of course i improved im playing strong players every day.

as for 2nd question, depends on where u are planning to go in japan? then i can answer your question honestly.

for tokyo: i went to nakano TRF during tourney time
shibuya sportsland freeplay on thursday nights
bigbox during most of the week
shinjuku sportsland when i get lazy

yea people think i downplay myself when i really dont lol, and yeah osaka people are hype as fuck

yeah im thinking about doing that but it would be nice if someone else did it for me lol.
i play st sometimes when noone is playing sf4. its not a huge scene but i dont think it will ever die out…its sf2 hahah. i came to mikado too late for xmania tho!

yeah i did ultra motion too fast and you can have fireball and ultra on the screen at the same time. and yeah i was really sad at the outcome of that match since CANTONA clearly was in a bad position.

i cant check now but somewhere like 1400 games played now…ive won 64% of my matches so far

hmm well i played against this really good gouki over the past two days named “6” that brought me back to 39k bp lol…and im stilla master.
he kept owning me with demonflip grab in the middle of gouki vortex and u cant crouch this on wakeup like i normally do so i would get grabbed over and over. ex upflame got stuffed.

reno was there with me and i complimented him on his play and asked him what i could do to stop this. he said “jump cancel and instant air teleport out of demon flip grab”.

sure enough it worked and i started beating him after that. japanese top players arent reluctant to give info if u ask.

i dont know cause ive never played him outside casuals where we went back and forth. for my sake i sure hope so lol

dude, have you not seen any of my videos? check out my prefight comment on my vids…it says #1 Sim in USA :stuck_out_tongue:

as for ur ryu/sim question, they gotta try to get inside to win. if they play patient and try to punish my limbs (only viable when they have super stocked imo, cause dp -> super >>>> sims limbs) then they lose straight up. pretty much if i play the match perfectly ryu has to guess the whole time to get damage.

no need to hate on gootecks, barfights 2 is gonna create crazy hype. i respect the moves this man does.

if i can get reno to help me do it then yeah, but what yorue asking is really hard so dont count on it.

haha im trying, as you know that matchup is hard as shit

check hfz69’s playlist if you want to see some vids of me vs japan dictator players. imo andre/kim really has the best bison in the world and hes from NY lol, kim is in Japan and reps norcal.

I know about andre lol. Everytime he is at ctf, I try to get at least one match in with him. I never come close to winning but its always a good learning experience seeing how he mixes it up and what not. thanks man.

Yo Sabin how does that teleport jump cancel thing work? If he does the throw, you’ll get out. But if he does a dive kick or the strong arm, does the game consider you airborne and then knock you out?

Yo buddy, congrats achieving the Master status, I’ve been reading the whole thread since it started, and there is always something interesting posted, keep it up man.
By the way, this last fight against Uryo, you played it Godlike, amazing.

Great job against Uryo!!

Yeah man, hence why I’m askin’ Art to pick me up a pack. That would be so gdlk.

so you gonna be on the west coast by then?

are you planning to go back to japan for a little while after that or stick in the states, if so are you planning to attend SB4?

He’s not.

As far as I know, they’re flying him out for Bar Fights, then flying him back to Japan.

You can buy cartons of them online, btw.

Yeah, but that shit’s shady. It’s hard to figure out which sites are legit and which aren’t- and considering you have to use an echeck, you’re up shit river if it’s not. I send Art a few bucks, he hooks me up with a pack that I only use for special occasions, no one gets ripped off. Win-win, imo?

Sounds like a win-win. Safe and secure is always better.

at the time you didnt know about the jump cancel teleport

did you try anything else to get out of that set up or was it that you just couldnt do anything cuz everything would result in a grab?

Sabin tried to do EX up flame but got grabbed out of it by Akuma about 80% of the time. If he stood there he just ate the throw, and if he teleported he either got demoned or he got swept.

I saw the EX up flame work a couple of times so I bet art was thinking “well it’s working, maybe it’s just my timing” or some shit.

The dude also said that you can jump cancel out of it, but the risk to dhalsim is very high if he guesses wrong, so the best way to avoid it is to not get into it in the first place lol.

I oughta know… I played my honda against his and wow, Honda cannot do shit against that lol.

dude, i wish i could get me a pack of those lol. Sabin, when you get back I hope to play you at ctf.

I was not planning on going but now that I know Sabin is going to be there I must. Can’t wait to see that Master Sim in action against the hometeam.

Grats on reaching Master while playing against Japan’s finest. I also appreciate all the useful info from your experience in Japan you’ve been sharing here.

Hi Sabin and anyone in Japan right now

I have hard time to find a way to buy the new arcadia magazine (playasia is a dead end now :frowning: ) and i think i’m not the one :confused: .
Do you think you can play the Online sellers for some of us (or just me lol ^^) if it’s easy to find the dvd here of course ^^

Ok sabin what I would like to know is if you have faced Bouya’s Zangief or if you’ve seen the way this kid plays. I main gief myself and its quite disappointing that the best zangief in japan doesn’t have even one video footage. Does he play turtle zangief? I have this feeling he does which might explain why he is so high up.

Hope you answer and goodluck with the japanese scene. Doing good things for sim players. I am almost tempted to have you ditch him for gief instead (lol).

There’s no footage of Booya? I see him a lot at Big Box, he has an amazing Zangief alright. Couldn’t tell you much about his playstyle since I don’t play Gief and haven’t really been paying that much attention.

play-asia.com is a dead-end ?
PM moi o tu habites en France parce que je vais en recevoir une copie :wink:

Je crois qu il vit au DOM TOm

Tiens si arcadia est sortie demain j irais me le prendre. dommage qu il soit pas en combi je serais passer vite fait la.