me: "they are trying to condition me." them: "did i just eat cereal without milk?"

I admire the resourcefulness, good job.

When I was very first getting into fighting games with SF5 and doing the tutorial I was under the impression I was suppose to tech grabs on reaction and was wondering why I was having such a difficulty with it

FGs are just rock paper scissors on crack cocaine

Is that why i love Akuma but fucking blow with him? Feel like this true.

It's always scary to me fighting a Birdie player. Every move is a guessing game.

Birdie is easy to whiff punish and has a slow dash, you can always neutral jump his ex forward command grab move. Not nearly as bad as the other two

This is the same thing you do when you are playing the fireball game. You throw a fireball and, _while_ you are doing that, you look for a jump-in. That way, if the opponent actually jumps in, you are ready to anti-air them.

it depends because characters like seth have like 5 different ways to approach and pressure you

That can actually be good if you autopilot with your characters good options. Just do whatever you think is going to work on your opponent without any mental strain, and your brain will naturally take care of whatever your opponent does without you having to focus on any particular options your opponent has. As long as you have a clear head patterns will form naturally as the match goes on, and you can end up picking apart those patterns without thinking as well.

@@warriordinag3921 That might be, but I've got so many bad habits that keep me in high bronze low silver. Random sweeps, committing buttons that don't give me time to anti-air when I get jumped on, doing *nothing* in neutral, throwing out random DPs because hot damn am I sure he's going to jump right now... or random unsafe moves for *no reason*. Once I've reined in my autopilot I think I'll have a decent path to at least gold, because I know my character really well on paper and in the training room, but it's putting that stuff into actual matches that I struggle on. I also realized that I struggle transitioning from my standard neutral buffer into DP, but a little practice in the lab at least helped me acclimate to QCB->DP, which is a combination I didn't even know I struggled with until I actually tried it.

@@kevingriffith6011 Practice mindfulness. Keep your habits in mind and try to break them during matches. Do it one habit at a time.

@@warriordinag3921 I've been making attempts at that. I'm trying to remind myself to go one step at a time: watch your opponent, do they quickrise or backrise? I don't even get that far, but eventually I think I'll get there.

thats because your goal is to "Just win" and "just be better". I was there for years also, until one day it hit me. forget about winning. I mean, stop caring about it, caring about it makes you rush to "just win". in other words, you lose patience. Pushing forward too much is exactly what makes people predictable. because then they can say "something is coming... ... Now" and it probably does. I notice my cody is much much stronger when he is juggling patience defence and offence. hes great at pushing, but if he pushes three times in a row, he got predicible. if he pushes even every other chance, and waiting 50 percent of the time, its still pretty predictable. when I add 5-10 full seconds of "fake looking pressure" while focusing on just defence, stopping what ever the other guy is, my cody win rate goes up nearly double. once they notice im one of those strong wall defenders thats putting in some pressure, with rare jumps, after they think "shit this guys not a jumper" sometimes I like to try and switch it to crazy jumper. I actually suck though, I never get past silver. i just understand the basics.

that's not eliminating the mental stack, it just increases the size of your mental stack. it's basically training your mental resources rather than removing some essential function of human cognition. this is illustrated by the fact that it is still possible to jump in or dash in on daigo, it's just less likely to be successful

Way easier said than done

At the end of the day you're never going to anti air or dash check 100% u can only train to be ready for one option or block the other. There will always be guesses and 50/50 situations. All we can do is use our game plans to dominate the situation and limit ur opponents opportunities.

a good way to train your reactions and improve your execution

SFV Holly Jolly Beatdown stage theme

@@HiFightTH thanks 👍

Holly Jolly Beatdown stage theme

There are less "Get out of jail" situations in SFV. You guess way more than any other street fighter game ever.

I think most people react to that quick "forward, forward" input before the actual dash

But there's an online delay in every fighting game.

@@gamer9720 Not every fighting game has the same delay

That’s just a special costume to look like that

@@des6801 I’ve seen that effect on the original guile costume before. Maybe it’s the stage.

It’s a mental fight. That’s why I like fighting games so much, it gets me thinking and every player plays different. So figuring them out is kinda like a puzzle

Nitpicking here but I think it's still a reaction, it's just so ingrained that it feels automatic. Muscle memory is a bit different, that is basically how doing a DP motion feels strange and awkward at first but eventually it is natural. Or even more simply, playing a scale on an instrument, you are not thinking about each note, your muscles remember the motion of moving through the scale. To be fair, the term muscle memory isn't a medical or technical term, it's a colloquialism that means different things in different context, so you are also correct in calling automatic reactions muscle memory. Again, I was just nitpicking a bit XD.

@@charliericker274 'Muscle memory' refers to automated movement meaning that the cognitive aspect (the decision) is bypassed completely. The brain receives the visual cues and the fingers execute the motion without decision making/reacting. Daigo recently referred to his antiair dp as 'automatic' meaning that it was executed without reaction/thought/decision. Similarly Brain F in a recently clip of his was surprised that his 'dp came out of nowhere', so where is the reaction there? In fact a lot of higher level play revolves around exploiting muscle memory, like interrupting a frame trap with a dash to surprise an opponent that has only practiced dash checking in neutral.