Vs Honda
1st round
After u did back trow u waited to long to do a safe jump and by mistake u did a criminal upper. Honda responded with a sumo splash what you did next was falling into the fear of Honda mix up and you decided to do a FA on wake up you should have blocked the first cr.lk and back dashed if you suspect that he would have tried to do an oricho trow set up the error here was the wake up FA. Sometimes the best option is to block or back dash.
Second you did great in doing a back dash after he did hand slaps and went for a cross over but u instead used j.hk u should have j.mk but props for teching the trow after wards perhaps you should have tried j.n.mk after the failed j.hk so that way you escaped trow and could star a combo of your choice either way great tech
After RK.lk why did you trow the zonk? You should have keep a safe distance where he can’t oricho trow so you could bait with fake rocks. Also why did you use a another lk RK he got hit the first one but has you can see he expected something like that. So you should have started to play the waiting game and play it slow because afterwards he started playing the poking war which he will win because his pokes have a longer reach you cr.lk to poke is AE after all so you can hit confirm to CU/RK MK or RK EX(hard knockdown).
2nd round
So far so good you seem to notice he is weak against normal grabs you did it 2 in a row but you should have safe jumped instead you did an EX zonk but you also saw that he likes poking you after he hits you so good use of bad spray. Great jab pressure btw at the end of the round you connected a EX Zonk which you could have FADC, f+mp/f+Hk/U2 and you would have won even tho at the end it was your win
3rd round
Great start you baited your counter hits but instead of following CH c.HP with ex rocks u should have gone with RK HK FADC, f+HK, CU EX or with a RK Lk which gives a hard knockdown and thus you pressure him to do mistakes like sumo splash. After wards missing the combo did hurt and then you chocked :(.
So in recap you could have beaten him but u were to eager and you abused to much of Zonks which he always did punish with cr.lp, slaps weird thing he never did s.hk afterwards. Also LK RK abuse was getting you killed yes you can do that tactic but if you see Cody zombie back and forth walk you are telling him that is coming remember that a charge character will always want to charge :db: so he can have charge for headbutt and sumo splash.
Anyways what you should have done against this kind of Honda poke him with s.mk or cr.mp because he was always expecting to see cr.mk
Overall I don’t think you lost because he is a better player than you is simply that you killed your self by trying to be over aggressive. Sometimes you need to play lame that is until you get a hard knockdown and that when you set up your OS/Safe jumps/frame traps etc.
Vs Akuma
1st round
Great use of zonks against fb again dropping that combo hurt maybe instead of going cr.lp x3, cr.lk, Rk/Cu why not go with cr.lp x2, cr.mp, RK/CU IMO I think is easier to do that combo. NM that you did went wild kudos in making Akuma feel the fear of the CH’s You should have punished Akuma fb spamming with RK EX when you found yourself at middle distance but overall np. Now here something I also noticed in the Honda match sometimes you get desperate and you jump towards them learn to play your ground game. After Akuma did U2 you should done U2 that mistake there could have cost you the round.
2nd round
Ouch welcome to Akuma vortex this the main reason why I chose U1 instead of U2 in this match up and why is important to know that your best option after you get hit with cr.Hk is to either block or back dash I chose back dash first to see if they do OS if they do then is time to block and get ready to grab tech.
3rd round
Right now the pressure you must be feeling is HUGE thus you are prone to make mistakes it happens to me but I learned that when that happens get ready to play LAME start the round with rocks and make your slow approach forward so you can give him pain aka patience. Also mix up your patterns that why he FA your cr.mk
Overall
I think you did great compared to the Honda match but you lost mainly because of your lack patience and bad spacing (RK LK, Zonks). Also I trick I use on tournements is I put my headphones so I can’t hear people that helps a lot the second thing I do play lame at first and try to always be at a safe distance after I get my knock down that when I star my rush down.