I went to a tournament over the weekend and was a bit disappointed with my placement. I placed 5th out of the 21 participants. I've been playing a whole lot, and I wanted to use the tournament as a test to my hard work and practice. I was having an off day to say the least. I was really sick and battling head aches and breathing issues all day. I also played on my lap where I was sitting on a goofy chair that kinda angles downwards...angling my STICK downwards. Basically sitting in a weird position made inputs weird on my stick...additionally starting in the losers bracket didn't help to much either. All excuses aside I managed to take 5th place, losing to Cole my first match (hence why I say started in losers bracket) then to Bokkin later in the tournament.
When the videos came out, I was able to witness how I played, and I must say I was pretty disappointed. Missed combo's, terrible zoning, uncalculated decisions....I was just off my game and I look like an amateur to say the least. After witnessing the monstrosity that I call my play style, I could see I clearly needed more work. So with that, here's the list of things I'd like to start working on and start using more often:
- Throw hadouken's in 2 instances...outside of jump in range OR during footsie situations.
- Use ex hadouken a bit more often in order to reset momentum.
- Anti air, anti air ANTI AIR (See picture for when to anti air)!!!!! Use s.hp anti air more often in conjunction with shoryu's. Most importantly shoryuken's OUT of c.mk pokes! This is pretty crucial...I find myself 9 times out of 10 getting jumped in on during a footsie battle (c.mk's or hadou's). By uppercutt'ing out of c.mk's and hadou's, I'll tighten up anti air'ing quite a bit.
- Stop jumping in the CORNER! Quit thinking your going to get some fancy crossup! Keep your opponent in the corner and PLAY SMART! Why would you intentionally put yourself in the corner if it wasn't an amazing mixup?! Play smart and stop throwing away great positioning!
- Counter jab and throw attempts with ex tatsu. This is something new, but I want to start delving into getting counter hits off of ex tatsu's.
Aright...lets get to work
- Mickey D'
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Word. I can really appreciate this. This was something that I was looking for. Something that focuses on the mindset, theory, understanding the abstract potential, and so forth. I couldnt figure out a way to improve my game even though I thought I was being analytical. It turns out that I dont have any structure to my analysis nor do I really know what to look for when analyzing my vids. I think my biggest problem is understanding how to build momentum on someone, preventing someone from doing so, and knowing the spacing that allows this to happen.
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