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Y0FACE!
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Age: 30
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Watch out, wall of 64ths!!! Because I stopped playing for so long (like two years?), I feel sort of new to this game and I am now able to make changes rather easily to my techniques, improvise on the way I used to read patterns and correct past mistakes. On top of that, I come with a different outlook on things. I can honestly say that the biggest mistake I did was to start playing this game one-handed with my dominant hand (right hand). I did get pretty awesome at it, but not only did I hinder my progress that year, but I messed myself up. I feel like the movements and techniques of playing one-handed made my right hand become stiff, thus being great at wrist jacking and direct patterns, but weak at vibrating and weird patterns. How would I go about "loosening up" my hand again? When I started playing spread, my left hand picked up rather quickly. The cool thing about my left hand is that I feel it can move "freely" and hit any sort of pattern, no matter how weird, or complicated it may be. I can also vibrate with it (haven't practiced much, though). To date, I cannot wrist jack well with it unlike my right hand. When it comes to jacks, I exploit my vibrating skills by controlling and doing short bursts of vibrations. Recently, I've thought about getting good one-handed with my left hand because it worked well with my right hand, but fear that I won't be as versatile anymore. Is there a better approach? Barely registered as a member of the community, one of my objectives that drove me to get better at this game was to be able to combo anything (FotBB to be exact. I know that everyone thought it was the hardest thing EVER at one point in their career). I learned how to break down patterns, change a pattern mentally to four others, exploit some of the mechanics (jump-trilling some rolls, etc...), I used to play on intense rates to brain shock myself till I couldn't anymore and things seemed easier the next day, but my accuracy suffered. Also, FFR doesn't really help, hehe. I've been working on my MA since I started playing again and I've gotten noticeably better. Because I haven't played in so long, my reaction time has somewhat diminished. I can't play on C750-C800 anymore and was forced to drop to C575. The weird thing is that dropping the Cmod so much was the very factor that increased my MA and I can even combo certain songs better than before. Maybe because I have so much time to think? The problem is that in a couple songs, I can't hit a certain pattern no matter how simple it is because I have too much time to think. If I bump up the Cmod to, say C600, I have no problems with combo'ing, but my MA is significantly hindered. A couple questions arise: I used to think the faster the speedmod, the better, but is that really the case? Could a slower speedmod than normal be better? Should I stay with a slow speedmod and just work at those patterns, or is combo'ing in general more important than MA? They say knowledge is power and I couldn't agree more, but what if I applied that to learning and mastering all the different playstyles? Like I said earlier, I'm going to practice and master playing one-handed with my left hand to sort of balance my hands out, but should I also learn index? I'm sure I can master it within the week no problem, but would it be worth it? What about the "silly" playstyles like pettanko (or whatever)? Do they have some value, or would I be wasting my time? I play with my wrists on the table because it gives me more stability and speed, but when I was being coached by Mina (haha good times!) he told me to raise my wrists because it's better for wrist jacking and for your biceps to get bigger ![]() My weakness: - Vibrating - Wrist jacking - Scythe of 13 My strenghts: - Bursts of any sort - Speed? idk - Face Random/miscellanous questions: Do the notes dropping (forget the name) have more effect than overhead? Does lighting matter? I prefer the dark... I'll add more here later because I'm bored of writing. Basically, I'm asking the community how I can improve and what I can fix right now that it's easy to change. You don't have to answer all my questions (I'm not looking for "practice" because that's a given), but feel free to elaborate and give tips on subtle details I might have overlooked. Hopefully, you understood what I was trying to ask and maybe you might have gotten some insight that can help you as well. I'll check up on this later... Ps. Hi guiz!
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