Intro
Hi,
I’m a total newbie to fighting games and this is my first post here.
After 8 weeks of reading, watching videos and training for about 6 hours a week
(in periods of 30 to 60 minutes a day), I have decided that I must work on my
execution.
I understand there are a lot of aspects of my game that I must improve, for instance,
going online and losing 200 matches will probably be better to improve than
planning a workout routine. But right now, execution is the most entertaining and
rewarding aspect of the game for me.
So, to improve my execution, I have developed the following Ryu workout routine. I
was wondering if any experienced player can comment on it.
Workout overall description
This Ryu workout routine is composed of several exercises.
Each exercise consist on repeating the same movement several times, until I
manage to execute it perfectly a certain number of times in a row. If I fail at
executing the movement, I begin the exercise again.
I increment the length of the series each week.
All exercises are to be repeated switching sides.
Instead of repeating an exercise switching sides just as I finish it on one
side, I wait until I finish two or three different exercises on one side, before
repeating them on the other side. That way my brain does not get accustomed to the same
move and I force myself to rethink the moves again when switching sides.
Exercise 1: hadoken
Believe it or not, I still cannot do hadokens reliably. My record so far is
about 50 in a row.
To improve this move I set the dummy to stand at max range and throw hadokens
as fast as possible, combining light, medium and hard at random.
Trying to throw hadokens as fast as possible and being at max range, forces me
to look at my opponent instead of to my character, because I have to visually confirm
the hit before throwing the next hadoken.
Exercise 2: cr.LP cr.LP cr.HK then air-tatsu crossup
Dummy on stand and auto-block at close range.
This link (cr.LP cr.HK) is a 1 frame link and still difficult for me.
The air-tatsu crossup is just a way to practice air-tatsu on reaction as my
link is very unreliable, and a nice way to do this exercise from both sides
during the same series.
The future plan is to set the dummy on random block to end up practicing hit
confirms:
cr.LP cr.LP cr.HK then jump-in
cr.LP cr.LP cr.MK hadoken if blocked
or
cr.LP cr.LP throw if blocked
Exercise 3: cr.HP shoryuken
I understand this is slow and unsafe, but it is also quite useful as part of
punish and combos.
As I cannot yet practice real combos reliably, I am trying to practice this
unsafe combination first, before going into more real, more practical, but
complicated combos.
I am using the shortcut: “df+HP d df+negative_edge” for this, just to practice
shorcuts and negative edge.
This is quickly becoming very easy, so I am tempted to thow a HK jump in at
the beginning, but I am afraid that this might build some jump-ins bad habits.
I have try to begin with a f+HP, which I believe is a quite popular punish
move, but that 1 frame link is still quite hard for me as I am not used to the
timing of the solar plexus yet.
Exercise 4: cr.MK hadoken
I can reliable execute this important poke when standing still, but when I am
moving, I end up getting a shoryuken 50% of the times (which I believe, is a
well known problem among beginers).
To practice this I set the dummy on record, move and dash forward and backward
and throw some jabs here and there, then I try to execute the poke.
Exercise 5: shoryuken super-hadoken
This is just to improve my speed, but I believe it might be important to
practice buffering.
Right now I cannot execute it more than once in a row, so I am practicing with
cl.HK cancelled into super-hadoken (which is not buffering, but at least I am
getting faster).
Exercise 6: anti-airs
I record a few jump-ins mixed with dashes and random movement on the dummy
and then try to punish them either with crouching shoryuken or with cr.HP or
standing HK.
So, what do you think?
Does this make sense at all?
I would love to learn from your comments.
PS: please excuse my lack of lingo and my poor English, it is not my mother tongue.