I find these extremely helpful, plus after obsessing over the ranbats and Dr. Subzero podcast I’ve been interested to see what many of the FFA players have been up to. Also, is denjin-video going to sit untouched or are updates coming soon?
that was a good listen. he broke everything down logistically. can’t wait for the next one.
any way you can get an interview with hungbee, gootecks?
I’d like that.
Although I am not a yun fan. Pyrolee’s consistency makes him fun to watch.
In interview with Emphy would be cool.
These 2 interviews are awesome. I really like both of them but it seemed that Pyro had a deep insight of 3S that only someone who has had the years of experience that he has. I agree with what Haunts said: “I think the best piece of advice was learning other characters for the sake of learning how to beat them with your main, rather than learning them just to have a counter character”.
I would like to hear from Ricky Ortiz if someone could get him to do an interview.
I gotta be honest, I’m sure 5star is a great 3s player, but that advice for new players about what to do if they have little comp/no community/no arcade was pretty terrible. He was asked what a hopeful 3rd strike player could do if they DIDN’T have a thriving community or an amazing arcade and he basically replied “Give up or move to socal, and if you do start a 3rd strike community, don’t let anyone in”.
Also, how can anyone say that a new 3rd strike player with very little comp shouldn’t play on GGPO? If he can play 3rd Strike with 3 frames of delay from someone a state over, then why the hell shouldn’t he? It’s not as good as playing on arcade machines at Family Fun, but then again, what is? At least it’s SOMETHING 3rd strike. At least he can get better at the game by doing it. At least it quenches his thirst for competition. No duh he’s not gonna go to EVO and win it, but GGPO and p2p are both recent advances that make it so almost anyone in the US can get a near-arcade experience. To tell them not to use it when they have nothing better is idiotic and wasteful.
I wouldn’t let it bother me too much if I were you. One person’s opinion on 3S or on how to get better at it isn’t gospel no matter how good he or she (lol) is. In this latest installment of the podcast (?) there were several times I felt like “hmm, I’d like to dispute that”. I’m sure I’m not the only one that thinks “sloppy parry input into low blocking is NOT new nor difficult nor that amazing”. Still, I like the interviews cus I love 3S and anything 3S related.
Exactly. I mean who the hell are these people really other than top 3S players? Their names aren’t Jesus and Moses and they’re not going to say everything according to the bible so everyone will be happy. They’re each their own individual people and if Kobe believes that online simply can’t make you a better and/or top player…he has a reason to believe that.
He just personally feels that it can’t make you ready to be a top player in itself. You have to also get out and go to tourneys and get some kind of offline comp. He’s just saying that it’s almost impossible due to how completely different the games are between what you play online and offline. You’d have to be insanely good at adjusting between on and offline play to go to say…an FFA ranbat or Evo and expect to do really well.
There’s nothing wrong with playing GGPO online and Five Star knows for sure that people are still gonna play regardless of what he says. You can already tell from his interview that he’s a bit of a cocky guy and feels that you need to be that way to really get people to level up in an offline scene. If anyone was gonna tell you to not play GGPO ever…it was gonna be him. No surprise there. Top players know what they need to do to get at and stay on top.
If you just want to simply get anywhere more competitive than you were by yourself…then yeah…GGPO is a great tool for helping you get a feel for what you need to do against another human person. You can’t get that unless you play against someone. Whether it’s through the internet or in person.
I agree with him on the GGPO issue, but because of limited arcades around the US its become a necessary evil for practice. Although I’ve had the misfortune of only playing Ken players for the past 2 days for some reason, I find it does help some aspects of my game. In a perfect world, we would all be able to step up our games at arcade communities, but we have to settle with GGPO.
if dudley jumps in and you block high and then you do that tap down to qcb trick, it will lose to throw and a high move
i.e dudley jumps in and does fierce then s.rh and you do that tap down qcb trick, rh will hit you, also throw beats it as yi said as well and walk up short short will beat it
it wins to uoh, rh overhead, immediate short short after the jump in, back swing blow
all i gotta say is… someday, somehow, somewhat… someone from 2dfighter or ggpo or kaillera is gonna make take out a pro offline player in a major tourney… the fact is… people may not get that side by side experience but they are learning crucial adaptations against a human player…
You should try interviewing more non-ffa players since they all play each other consistently.
it already happened lol
nataku a.k.a Chi-Rithy (on here) took out jwong at NEC to win 1st place
before he went to NEC he was online very often…he took it to them seriously lol
A lot of good players play casually on GGPO/2DF anyway. Valle, Paul Wall, Shinshay, Exodus, Smoothcat, Harmonaz, etc.
I don’t see why anyone would be offended by someone saying it’s unlikely you’ll get into top level play by training online. It’s true. If you believe otherwise, arguing about it online doesn’t prove anything. Just step up your game, and prove people wrong in tournament play.
i dont know if you guys noticed but ryan updated his blog with an interview with amir and also an sbo/evo quals wrap-up.
THANK YOU!!
Thanks! Still have 1 more Dr. Sub-Zero show to put out. Not sure what will happen with DV because I’m really hating the old content management system we are using. That’s why I set up the blog to kinda move away from it. Hopefully vids from this weekend will appear on the site soon, whether it’s on the main site or the blog.
I can ask, but don’t hold your breath.
Pretty sure that he meant to make the community exclusive once it’s already thriving. Obviously if it’s you and your buddy and you want to be the next Daigo and Nuki you’re going to have to be homies.
Did 2 this weekend with Emphy and Justin Wong. Please keep in mind I’m not a pro interviewer or anything so it’s easier for me to start with guys I know well.
YES, THANK YOU! Also, please subscribe to the RSS feed at the top. What is RSS? Going to be making a feed for the podcast asap (and technically it’s not a podcast unless there is an RSS feed 
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oshi! you got emphy! i cant wait to hear that one.
Ryan, your interviewing skills are top tier. You ask all of the questions I want answered.
Well…I don’t know if you can really count him. He regularly played at Toronto arcades before that so it’s not like he was some underground online warrior who had 95 percent of his training online. He just happened to really get on the online bandwagon when it got started up but he definitely had a good bit of arcade offline training before doing what he did at NEC. I really can’t see how you can get as good as he is simply playing online all day.
The only person I can think of that came nearly from internet practice alone and beat somebody good was Magneto Maniac’s money match against J.Wong in MVC1 in VA. AFAIK…he did a majority of his playing and practice online and was able to beat J.Wong. Granted…it wasn’t a tournament, they used the emulated version of the game…and MVC1 is not a game that J.Wong in the least took seriously but to beat J.Wong in any Capcom fighting game is an achievement I say.
Magneto is pretty much known as the only online warrior that did anything significant in an offline situation. Even then…he still regularly came to play multiple tourney games at C3 in VA before that event happened. So he definitely understood the different mindset and pressures involved in playing a game seriously offline. Every other online warrior just talks on SRK and backs down on offline challenges/tournaments. It’s hard to get anyone to prove the tourney/offline players wrong cuz all the online players get scared or blow off any offers to prove themselves any ways. Those are the guys that basically have never been seen in person at a tourney or other offline get together.