SS'd Shanghai Romance S16 yay!

Hard Core Rock Mix S21 - A w/ 128; painful sightread >.<

Vacuum S21 - A w/ 39; still can't do that ending...

2-X S23 - B w/ 91; i think i've figured out the 24th mess.

Thanks Chris! Yeah I've been pushing pretty hard to get my stamina up. Hoping to get more 16's and my first few 17's in the next few weeks before the tournament.
Don't give up man! Just talk to Tony and he'll put more material on the machine. He's really good about that stuff.
It's a little hard though because stuff like speedcore can't all be on the machine because it has bad words or bad images.
Evan really wants you to get an 18 and so does Sara and myself! I know you can do it. Everyone hits dead spots but pushing though just makes you better.
Maybe try focusing on things you don't normally play? Quadding gimmicked charts or something.
Also that 17 is like 227 for days but I'll get it.
Anyway keep playing man, keep beasting.

Thanks Andy! 

Working on those 18's, rough stuff. We Luv Lama (18) is brutal... I get about 4:30 minutes in and I crap out and Marunouchi Surviver (18) is just plain dumb, lol.

I know, I gotta keep pushing but it is just so hard to want to keep playing sometimes! 

Ian (Archi) (also my boyfriend) wrote the pendulum pack, is better than rynker at stamina + footspeed. He is pretty much amazing at the game.

Dirk (Dirksy) has passed a ton of 18s, but his FA needs work he is a socks player tho.

Demir (Drazu) has passed a bunch of 17s, working on his footspeed for 17s.

Oliver plays mostly 13-15s. I think he recently got his first 15 pass.

YES YOU GUYS WE ALL NEED TO GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER. GET. IT. TOGETHER. NO. BITCHES. ALLOWED.

Also I passed a 16 today on a sightread. It was lol. I also attempted a bunch of 17s and got into the songs but overall didn't do anything exciting. I almost passed gate openerz, did a bunch of other crap. My pads are really bad. There are a couple 17s I think I can get within the next couple weeks. I'm going to push really hard to be consistent by the tournament.

PEZ - Flower Forever - 16 - 85.21

OMG! I missed this! Tell her to KEEP BEASTING, it would be very impressive to see abbye attempting 16s during the tournament. Will you guys be at acme on Saturday? I might go there to play (maybe)

Score dump



not a 14 imo

up by over a whole percent.


FAIL SCORES

This is nothing I can really brag about but I'd like to post a personal achievement that I... achieved a little while ago.

This is the first ever song I did not miss anything on the ITG machine (albeit I still have a shit ton of Greats and I can never be perfect at any song yet lol)
Welp, I'm making progress, and I'm definitely not the same player I was when I was a 12 year old playing standard mode on DDR.

I'm hoping that with practice, I can actually fully concentrate on the game because I still feel like I "let" myself mess up and end up getting at LEAST one miss and sort of "ignore" my leg movements.
Anyone have advice on how I can beast like you guys?

@ Kevin

When I watch you play on Sundays the first thing I've noticed was your stance/form is wide. What I mean is that your feet tend to hit the entire panel. If you watch players like Mad Matt, Happyfeet, Parrax, Rynker, etc., they are very narrow in their stance.

For me, when I play I try to be narrow by thinking about keeping half my foot on the center panel at all times.

For instance, when I hit the up arrow, from the middle of my foot down to my heel remains on the center panel. Also, I think about looking robotic. My upper body doesn't turn, sway, and shift. I try to prevent extra movement. Extra movement leads to burning out faster.

Also breathing is very important! When I play hard song like 16s I focus on breathing. I breathe through my nose and out of my mouth, always! Never through your mouth. When you breathe through your mouth, you generally use your chest to intake air. When you use your chest, again you are making unnecessary movements. When you breathe through your nose you should be using your stomach to intake air. Using your mouth/nose to take in air and you feel your chest expanding, you are breathing wrong. When you intake air with your chest, you are using muscles in your shoulders and chest which can fatigue you faster.

To put it simply:
1: Work on footwork, narrow your stance.
2: Stabilize your upper body.
3: Breathe through your nose, and fill your stomach not your chest!

Kevin, it depends on what you're striving for. Accuracy or Stamina? I'd say most of the advice APHR offered is for intense play on hard charts. If you want to focus on accuracy and getting higher scores, I could offer you some tips.

Any advice would help guys, I'd like to beast at ITG someday so that I can at least be a peer lol, even if I won't be flawless at the game.

EDIT:
So, how does one not suck as much as I do?

Playing some Pendulum on In The Groove

I'm an old diddler from "back in the day".  I probably don't have the best advice to give these days. I think PEZ and the "newer crowd" will be who you want to take advice from. Plus, they'll be more likely to see you in the arcade and help you out.

Now, if you want advice on how to AAA, then I could give you some help. But I'm dead serious, most of my advice is completely contradictory to what you need to do to beat 15's.

If you're talking about timing for just regular ol' songs, that's just something I have to develop on my own since it's not a technical thing.. ya gotta feel it.

As for learning how to beat 15s... yeah I'm not going to be able to do that in a 100 years lol.

I wouldn't say it's impossible to teach somebody how to play dance games with more accuracy. There are certain techniques that could help you maximize your odds of success.

One such technique is the "flat foot". I wrote an article about it and I'll put the link below. This style will probably help improve your accuracy, but at the cost of your stamina and ability to play fast, intense songs.

http://www.pnwbemani.net/articles/dance-game-techniques/flat-foot-technique/21

if you are interested in obtaining higher accuracy in songs. I suggest you try to play easier stuff  so you're not worried about passing the song while also focusing on your score. Challenging yourself with new, and harder songs is great. But, if you want to perfect your accuracy and get AAA's, you should try playing songs you can easily pass and focusing hard on getting the highest possible score you can.


Edit : I also found this post I wrote on DDR Freak a few years back. Just click on this link and find the post by me. I don't think it'll help too much, but if you have a minute it's worth the read.

http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=134999#top

Okay, thanks.

So err, not sure if I can make it to the ACME tomorrow, and I really wish I could go more often, but due to the limits of not having a vehicle or my own job yet, I sometimes can't afford to come :{
but eh, I'll come by and play for like 6 songs anyway today (sunday)

Posting this here for Abbye : )

wow there's at least one darn miss in each of these

I survived this one for the first time oh god I am weak


dat percentage omfg


so friggin' close to getting a full combo but ass damn it


seriously I cannot get those 24ths


makin' progress with pendulum


better... now i just gotta stop fudging up


wow
this song is supposed to be a piece of cake yet I still sucked at it

I don't always play ITG, but when I do...

This whole time I've been breathing wrong. Epic sightread win!

I remember this from years ago. Still fun to play!

And...

SS'd Love is a Danger Zone (Cranky Mix) S12 & Lion's Roar S13

Nice Congrats on passing Propane Nightmare! 

How are the pads btw, are they functioning okay? 

oh. FUCK.

Thanks! I felt pretty awesome afterwards! As far as the pads go, P1 felt all around good to me. Travis was complaining about P2 right arrow though...

oh not me.

Yeah, turns out that the Player 2's right arrow sensor closest to the center panel was split and busted. It caused the arrow to stick, fixed that up today though so it should be working like a charm! 

Beast! Abbye passed this as her sightread...

I was so excited when she passed this!  

Here's a variety of things:

This took five tries; it's so rhythmically difficult!

I think the sync is a tad late.

Shortcut version

*shrug*

Wi-Ex-Doc-Va D23 - C w/ 141; didn't take the pic in time. Last part is stretchy!


Did this today and persevered; totally wasn't expecting to pass!

I think I'm comfortable doing 160.

Hey guys, just wanting to make sure Chris + Abbye see this. I've updated some stuff on the  IWSS tournament page. Hopefully tony will add the new pack to the ACME machine soon so you guys can all start qualifying. You need to make accounts on AIJ to qualify for the tournament, you should start posting scores ASAP. Please see the updated first post on the thread for updates:

http://www.pnwbemani.net/events-meetups/(tournament)-washingtonwest-coast-staminafootspeed-tournament/