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<div class=“QuoteAuthor”><br></div><div class=“QuoteText”><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>i’ve been playing this game for almost 5 years and for a guy who considers him self aware, fast learner and smart!!! every game that i play i’m above average,and if is racing games way more, it seems that i havent learn anything, like its pointles to play the game anymore, every time i practice its ok, but for no reason i dont apply what i practice in the actual match. I play guys whose points are close to 20k, 15k, and i wonder how they get those points?? i’m struggling to get 5k, and they beat me with the stupidest game…The other day against skyakuma i played the lamest way possible and get blown away and perfected twice in a match!!! i was like… did i miss something here?? played mi best friend who plays balrog (yes climaxter you know him) and he beats me the simplest way you can get beaten, he mixups high and lows and i was almost throwing my arcade stick because i was doing it late or lagging… fuck it i’m not playing this game for a couple of days and play need for speed where i think i’m good…</span></font></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>rants ends</span></font></div></div>
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OK so this sums up your post “<span style=“color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);”>but for no reason i dont apply what i practice in the actual match”. Ok, see the thing is I had a hard time doing this for a while too but I eventually figured it out. You have to break it down into sections. You cant just practice and take EVERYTHING you learned and try to apply it all at once. Theres so much to remember that its just not possible. Ok, so, what you have to do go into training, work on a few things but just pick ONE to actually work on in a real match. This relates to both meta game stuff and executional things. So I would take a week and work on AA…just AA’ing. Play matches in endless and strictly work on this, forget about everything else. After about a week you’ll learn what you can AA and what you cant and it becomes muscle memory. See thats something simple…something harder to incorporate is looking for patterns. Go into endless, take a whole week, play and just block, read your opponent and look for his patterns. Watch his strings and see if he goes cr.lp, cr.lp, cr.mp, hado or does he use a cr.mk where cr.mp would be…or does he do two cr.lp’s and do a crossup attempt because he knows we have bad overhead AA options…or does he do try and frame trap you…what does he cr tech with?..or full screen does he diagonal jump over hados or neutral jump…does he even KNOW about frame traps…can he reaction ultra to something you’re doing…its alot but this is data you have to suck in all while playing and running your own gameplan and thats the hard part. You focus on what you need to do so much that its difficult trying to take in what your opponent is doing. EVERYONE has had that aha moment watching a replay of a match they lost and saying “He did every single time I did this and I didnt pick up on it?”. Just take a while and really work on blocking and looking for your opponents patterns. Once you figure it out you can exploit them.</span><div><span style=“color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);”><br></span></div><div><span style=“color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);”>Take another week and work on reactions, strictly reactions. Go into endless and work on hp and mp palming through fireballs on reaction. The way my reactions got better was fighting up close. I took a while and did not throw a single fireball. The start of the match I would walk up to my opponent and just cr block in sweep range. I tried to poke and focus and see what pokes worked where and what didnt. This helped my reactions because when you’re that close you HAVE to see stuff coming…you have to block block strings, frame traps, constant crossup attempts. I’m telling you, do this for about a week or two and your reactions will get way better. If you can react to a honda headbutt mid screen then you’ve made it. While we’re on reactions, take another week and just Ultra shit. Ultra everything you can on reaction. Our fireball recovery is so good that we can ultra everything coming over (U1). Just take a while and work on reaction Ultra’ing things like Abels EX Heel Kick, Jaguar Kicks, Cannon Drills, Hooligan Flip, Spin Knuckle, reaction Ultras to our own palm, Blankas who like to ball from mid screen like it cant be punished…dont try to block it and Ultra…try to ultra, if you use Ultra 2 face a Ryu or Sagat and work on reactionary Ultra’ing fireballs from mid screen a la Infiltration vs Ryan Hart. </span></div><div><span style=“color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);”><br></span></div><div><span style=“color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);”>(Sigh) I say all that to say that you have to break it up. You cant just work on 10 things and try to apply ten things at the same time. Alot of it is muscle memory and alot is meta. Gouken has so many things he can do and so many approaches that I forget to do certain things myself sometimes. We can jump in cr.lpx3 (block string) and overhead…works everytime because we’re pushed out so far that they dont think overhead will hit. But I’m always so focused on frame trapping or throwing when in close that I forget to do this. But you incorporate things like this into your game and it just makes you that much more dangerous. Your opponent wont know what you’re gonna do next and that freaks anyone out. Just take your time Martinez, break it down, incorporate one thing at a time spending about a week or two on each and it’ll come. </span></div>