Street Fighter Podcasts

Posted on September 17, 2010 by muttonhead

Mike Ross, courtesy of Iplaywinner

When I was starting down the path of a Street Fighter scrub, there were a lot of podcasts out there that were essential to my education to the scene. Today, there is such a profliteration of podcasts out there catering to different audiences, covering different topics.

I love this new variety in the podcasts; you have WakeupSRK covering the general fighting game sphere, you have Juicebox doing his extremely technical player-improvement JuicyBits podcast, and you have the personality pieces of Gootecks’ podcasts.

I thought I might make a mini-list/guide of my favourite podcasts I’ve listened to over the years. I’m still an avid listener, and everytime I go into training mode, I put on a podcast to pass the time.

Gootecks Podcast

I’m not sure why Gootecks gets so much hate in the community these days. Sure he might not be winning tournaments anymore, but when vanilla SF4 was starting to hit its stride, he was putting out a ton of media, and personally his podcasts taught me a lot about the SoCal scene and the myriad of personalities there. So I have to give him props for that, as well as being very creative in his approach to Street Fighter as a venture.

edit: Gootecks also has a new podcast going over at http://crosscounter.tv/. Thanks to Anonymous for the tip.

His stuff did a good job of describing the early exploration of Street Fighter 4, as well as being good showcases for the Socal personalities (It certainly helped developing my man crush on Mike Ross). You can get that from one of my favourite episodes featuring Dogface and Omni. And this one is literally a Street Fighter history lesson with Alex Valle.

While the Gootecks show was probably the first stuff I started listening to, the other show I have to list down is none other than Alphaism Radio. Originally the home of Skisonic, and hosted by Bunkei, this show can be overly long, nonsensical, random but ALWAYS hilarious. From prank calls, to Wii Boxing, to Face-Gina dreams and which way Keit’s weeping willow bends, to shit talk central, Alphaism radio has it all. To be fair, the show can also be very informative when Bunkei sets his mind to it, and long live Alphaism Radio!

Skisonic and Keits were mainstays on Alphaism radio, and they’ve brought their talents to shoryuken.com’s weekly podcasts, Wakeup, Shoryuken! This show is the current Godfather of the podcasts out there, with wide-ranging topics covering the entire fighting game scene. It also probably is the most consistent out of all the podcasts in terms of quality, and the fact that they deliver it every Wednesday really brightens my week, as well as leaving me marvelling at their dedication. Like I mentioned before, the quality is really consistent, so you could really just go ahead and take your pick out of any of their podcasts and take something away from it.

Iplaywinner is one of the premium sites of the community, and though they don’t often put out podcasts, I’ve always enjoyed what they put out. I guess it might be on hiatus now because Pherai is in Japan, but I’ve always liked Pherai’s candour in the podcasts. Here’s one featuring the man himself.

Juicebox Abel has always been an entertaining player, but I had no idea he could be capable of putting out such highly technical, detailed and helpful podcasts! Here’s his latest and greatest, Juicy Bits Podcast – Episode 3 – ‘How To Get Better at Street Fighter’

As our scene continues to grow, I hope to see the quality and variety of podcasts constantly getting better, to sate the Street Fighter fanboy that resides within me 😛
Hey, down in Melbourne we might be getting our own podcast in the near future! I’m personally very excited about that. Keep your eyes peeled.

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Street Fighter Graphs: Player Styles

Posted on September 12, 2010 by muttonhead

Crossovers, by freedarko.com

Inspired a little bit by Juicebox Abel’s latest podcast about merging player style and character style, and the wonderful graphs I have been reading over the years over at www.freedarko.com, I have tried to come up with a rudimentary graph of my own regarding player style.

I thought it might be a fun exercise to analyse yourself and place yourself within the graph. For example, I feel that I lack a certain feel or intuition when it comes to playing Street Fighter, such as knowing the right time to do the right move, or feeling what your opponent’s intention might be. Instead, I tend to rely more on frame data, risk/reward math, and matchup knowledge, perhaps becoming methodical to a fault. I also tend to be a bit more reactionary than proactive in my game, and all this sums up where I place myself within the graph. I also guesstimated a little bit and put in a few more players to avoid myself being lonely up there. (You all might completely disagree with where I place you, and I welcome the discussion!) I also am putting up a blank graph below for you guys to place yourselves, and to think about your own game for a little bit!

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PSN match vids with Garylok 2: Only an Idiot would get hit by that…

Posted on September 10, 2010 by muttonhead

At last, I have recorded footage of my HAKAN 🙂 Unfortunately I have been neglecting him for a while to level up my Ryu and it really shows here. Thanks to Garylok for recording and uploading the videos! (Edit: Analysis by Gary added in.)

1/14

M: The normal whiff standing fierce meaty DDT setup doesn’t work on Cody.So if I landed any, please bear in mind that means Gary was being antsy and pressing buttons. I actually only remembered it in the middle of the game, and was searching for the character specific list on my blog while playing. I quickly saw that HP Rocket, dash forward HK DDT is a setup, and I tried it. But I seldom practice that particular setup, and as you can see, I missed pretty badly.
This is also the first time someone has timed their jump early enough to avoid my Ultra 2. Overall, I played pretty badly, missed a lot of ddt dash jump over loop by accidentally jumping back, and missed a lot of crossup setups too. Should’ve done EX SPD after the last FADCed slide.

G: Game 1
Nothing too special about this match, it was our first game, playing characters we dont main and definately a weird match up.
Ive only played your hakan about 10 times which was along time ago and prob bumped into 2 in ranking games so this match up is unknown for me. I dont even know the names of his moves and whats blockable or not.
Some notes ive made are
I shouldnt use fierce CU in a block string, im left at a whopping -10 frames
Me not being familiar with hakans moves definately put me at a disadvantage but thats no excuse as i should be able to adapt to the match up
I shouldnt be so antsy and trying to tech throws or pressing buttons but i tend to do that alot with grapplers
Using RK’s too close and they will get punished hard, it puts me too close to the enemy with at least -7 frames if blocked.
– I tend to connect alot of crack kicks (f+hk) but i never follow up with EX CU. That is something i should do on reaction but its really hard
I told myself not to jump once you had your meter before the match started but i scrubbed it out and jumped once and paid the price
I think thought, perhaps i could bait it out and counter with my own ultra without having to FADC. It turned out as i expected
Although i won the first game, i thought we were both playing pretty poorly and it was waaaay to close when i know mutton hardly plays hakan. (Edit: Actually I  often try to play Hakan, so I just suck.)

2/14

M: I missed a lot big things, like that FA at 1:36, I did a forward fierce, when I should’ve done maybe Ultra or a fmp mk ddt uncombo.
That last super was…WTF. You can see clearly I was doing an SPD motion. How the hell did the super come out? And why did Gary jump?? Not high level play.

G: Game 2
Not much to this game other than WTF.
I keep choking my FADC ultra, kept trying to get lucky HK RK without hit confirming
I remembered i should be plinking (which i learnt from mutton) but i failed. Not enough time in the lab causes that
Why did i jump and eat that super mutton says. Answer is, i dont know, and what i really dont get was why the hell did i even jump backwards? I cant recall what was going in my mind other than the words scrub more.
A match i really dont even want people to witness.

3/14

M: More missing of the dash forward jump over lk ddt loop. And I should mix it up a bit more after FA dash forward on block. And I’m not sure if Gary knows that crouching wake up normal is a counter or he was just doing it.
I should’ve have just EX SPDed the empty jump on the Ultra.
That super in round 4 was a lucky guess for me. I should not have been rewarded. And Gary doing FADC into Ultra is even more of a random guess.

Should’ve teched after he missed the FADC Ultra, might’ve been able to punish.
Hm even though I lost, I think this matchup is a rare one that is not too bad for Hakan. I just need to get the Cody-specific setups right, and try not to play too scrubby.

G: Scrub fest. I got hit by way too many SPD. All you gotta do is stay low and that blocks his slide and SPD but i kept being antsy and not keeping my cool
@mutton you need to watch those empty safe jumps before you do U2 or it will get baited and eat a massive combo
EX zonk FADC U1 randomly, so random i even did the ultra even when i knew he blocked the zonk. Was i hoping for a lucky strike? I definately screwed up big time. I managed to hit confirm a HK RK FADC but ultra’ed too late. Epic fail on my behalf

4/14

M: Hmm I can’t really be bothered to analyse the Ryu matches too much being more excited about Hakan, but I may as well go through them and take notes. If Gary asks I might do a more in-depth look.

Brief note: If I hit confirm a meaty in the corner, I may as well go for the lk tatsu srk ender instead of sweep.

Still getting thrown by whiff forward roundhouse throw -_-
My input was d, f, d, d, mp and I got super???? I got a lucky break when it hit though.

G: Game 4
Theres no need to analyse them deeply unless the same error occurs multiple times or a big mistake.
Nothing much in this game, but i started to notice i do EX RK after a throw tech and you always get hit by it. This is a bad habit on both our play because im randomly throwing it out and its -10 on block. You are always standing which means you get hit by low attacks and half of those times you try to hadou.

5/14

M: Round 1

I had the right idea when I went for forward fierce after a blocked cmp cmk and just missed snagging his focus. Have to watch the spacing on that.
My anti-air FA is not very sharp either.
What a bad ending, I did the EX DP too early and only got one hit, basically handing him the round.

R2
A lot of bad play in the clutch. I didn’t DP my AA opportunities, and both of us kept missing our links. I did the unintentional DP off low forward again!Urgh.

R3
Why am I losing in the fireball war to Cody? Gary, trying to do Cody’s 4 frame clp after DP FADC is not a good idea.

G: Game 5. I blocked too much, i didnt even have a zonk charged. I was just getting toyed around. I wasnt even sliding under crossups or AA at all.
Last round i FADCed the EX zonk to U1 but i got EX CU because i tried to do U2 lol

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The Stigma of Street Fighter

Posted on September 8, 2010 by muttonhead

Yesterday, my girlfriend and I had The Talk. She sat on the bed glaring at me, and asked, “Just how long are you going to play Street Fighter for?”

Ah, the hard questions of life. I told her that I could not give her a definite answer and that a multitude of things could happen; I could start working longer hours and no longer have the time to compete in tournaments, I might lose my interest in the game, or I might simply get too old and lack the reflexes or speed to play the game anymore.

I was failing to wriggle my way out of the situation, when she said caustically, “You’ve been playing for two years already. Who on earth plays a damn video game for more than two years?”

Yes, who indeed would play a mere video game for years and years, manipulating polygons on a screen, clashing hit boxes together? I would like to lie to you and say Street Fighter is more than a game. But it isn’t.

Street Fighter itself is just a game, but it can mean to you or you can make out of it so much more.  It probably means something different to each and every one of us who bang on sticks. And far be it for me to tell you what it is. After all, where is the line between unhealthy video game addiction, and the pursuit for betterment of self?

I explain that Street Fighter was my hobby, my passion. She replied that most people have a hobby that improves themselves; like fitness in sports, or an ear in music. I replied that Street Fighter teaches me patience. She countered by saying that she only ever sees me extorting long sighs of frustration and slumping over after losses. I tried to explain that I exhale so forcefully not because of the fact that I lost, but rather over my own mistakes, my failure to execute a strategy or mind game, or attempting to improve but falling short, but I stopped myself. After all, what was the point of explaining?

Street Fighter can be so many good things. For one, it can mean community, and I’ve met so many great people and interesting characters in the scene. It can take you places where you’d never expect to go, and meet people you’d never expect to meet. How many people play basketball, and the best player they might ever play against would be a lower division college player? I’ve gotten to play the Michael Jordan of the fighting game scene, Daigo Umehara himself. I’ve even had the incredible opportunity to interview the most famous Street Fighter couple in the world, Momochi and Choco Blanka, in a WCG game convention all the way over in Singapore. I mean who am I? I’m just a scrub. But Street Fighter can take a scrub places.

And above all, hovering above everything, there is the ever-present stigma of Street Fighter. How many times have you told your friends that you play Street Fighter, and their faces scrunch up slightly in disgust? Street Fighter? They say. Um okay. What about a real competitive game like a first-person shooter or a RTS?

You tell them you’re not free on Saturday because you’re going to spend the whole Saturday stuck in a lecture theatre playing Street Fighter with twenty guys.  They look at you like they’re going to say something, but they don’t.

When you call home, and your dad asks you how your weekend went, you don’t tell him about how salty you were when you went 2 and out at your local ranbat. Neighbours hear the sound of Sanwa buttons, and it’s an alien sound, the worst noise pollution possible.

You walk into the Hi-Fi bar for a Fight Nights with your stick under your arm, and two girls in miniskirts point at you as you go past while whispering to themselves. You stop by a Macdonalds on the highway at 3 am on your way back from an interstate tournament, and sputter an explanation to highway cops trying not to shake their heads at you. Apparently, real people play WoW, and after all, isn’t Street Fighter a kids game?

You walk into an arcade, and it’s the greatest place on earth. Put your money on the line and into every uppercut, as you feel a welling in your throat. But back in my hometown, arcades are seen as disreputable locations. Punks hang out there. You’re told not to hang out there as a kid. But your eyes constantly flash over to the blinking screens, players’ hands smattering over the buttons with staccato fury. You wonder if you’d ever be able to do that nasty juggle combo you once saw on the screen, but grow up is what they tell you, no one plays videogames once they have a life.

What’s the point of all of this? Being a stick jockey, learning how to plink. Learning how to read the mind of the other guy on the other side of the machine. Watch as his character moves back and forth, communicating to you meaning and intent. We’re debating without words, staring each other down without eye contact. You learn things about yourself. I learned that I am mentally weak, that my biggest issue is confidence.

Maybe you do this for fun, maybe you do this for competition. Maybe you do this struggling to find something worthwhile within yourself. Whatever it is, we all still have to live,

With the stigma of Street Fighter.

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BAM Practice at Deakin University

Posted on September 6, 2010 by muttonhead

Original thread: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5374

Thread for this Saturday: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5387&p=91918#p91918

Basketbawful Man Love

So this Saturday we had our first BAM practice at Deakin University. I got there around 1145 am, and Igor had already been inside for ages.

I was pretty impressed when I got inside the lecture theatre 3; it was a 500 seater, a massive hall with two gigantic projector screens, a podium with a microphone etc. We were both feeling pretty hardcore that this location would be used for some good old SSF4 training. I regret not bringing my camera, and snapping some pictures of the venue.

Cactus and THK soon arrived, and we had our two setups going. The only bad thing only the day was the lack of setups; we had plenty of sticks and consoles, but only two TVs in LT3. We ended up going to the other room to set up with the other TV they had there, but more on that later.

Now we had no idea of how many people were going to turn up other than the people who posted in the Ozhadou thread, but it turned out that a ton of the Melbourne big guns showed up. We had Toxy, Naruga, Heavyweapons, Miceelf, Alex, Somniac, Stryfe, Raijkurupt, Carnage, Kazzee, and Spoony. Admittedly it was a little too many people for the number of setups we had, but hey! Not bad for what was originally going to be just a regular training session between me, THK and Igor. And next week we’ll hopefully have more setups as well.

I had a nice set with Igor, which he learned to Ultra my sweeps on block. Thanks to him, I think I’ve learned the Dee Jay matchup quite nicely now. He was nice enough to test Balrog TAP to EX headbutt for me as well, and we found that low forward counters that or jam spam after TAB pretty well. Yes Zerokill, I still dream about you 😛

The rest of the day I spent getting smashed by people. At least I can tick off two things off my “Scrub To Do List” by finally getting a game off Somniac for the first time in six months, and finally taking a round off Toxy. To be fair Toxy was using Ken, and for some strange reason, I felt really comfortable as the game loaded. It must be the effect of feeling confident about a certain matchup; like Heavyweapons feels about Fuerte for example. In any case, I was able to display uncharacteristic aggression to take the first round from him, before he adapted and beat me down the next two rounds. But I was still pretty happy!

One of my former administer of PSN beatdowns also showed up: Kazzee or Ben. He showed me that he still hasn’t lost it, beating me down 10-1 in the Ryu mirror, and going toe to toe with Stryfe! It’s funny, because it seemed to me that we were both doing a lot of the same stuff; similar combos, setups etc. It just was that his footsies were infinitely better. And that I kept falling for stupid mindgames like him saying out loud, “Uhh, probably not going to jump now.” And he jumped right after, and I ate it like a noob.

We were actually playing in the other room; I had gotten pretty bored waiting for games in LT3 and Spoony and I took Sryfe’s console over to the other room to get some games in. To our surprise, we found an Asian couple and a lightbulb guy studying in the room.

百兰氏鸡精 (If you have to ask, then you'll never know)

You can imagine the looks on their faces as we took out an XBOX 360 and TEs out of the bag. We told them we had already booked the room, but we were fine with them studying inside so long as they could stand the noise of our sticks. They were okay with that, but I’m pretty sure they had no idea what they were in for. (The couple left the room after a while, uh-oh.)

The setup was actually pretty good, the only thing was that the TV was mounted high up on the wall, and probably incurred a little bit of neck pain.

I’m not sure about the other guys, but me and THK were pretty amused to be playing Street Fighter to our heart’s content in such a classroom setting; the desks, the whiteboard, the lecture theatre. It felt just a tiny bit awesome.

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Thank you, SRK

Posted on September 6, 2010 by muttonhead

Lol.

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PSN match vids: Garylok and I

Posted on September 5, 2010 by muttonhead

Garylok was nice enough to record videos of our most recent set. Preface: he’s relatively new to Cody, and normally he does much better with his Balrog main against me. I still have no means to record video, big thanks to Garylok.

GGs Garylok!

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Shadowloo presents: I Hate Blanka’s Chips

Posted on September 5, 2010 by muttonhead

Incredible video from the guys over at Shadowloo, for everyone that has been chipped to death by Blanka’s new Ultra and hated themselves for it. Really comprehensive, and it’s really good to see videos of such high production coming from Australia!

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Couchwarriors R7: Pink Cowboy Ken FTW

Posted on August 31, 2010 by muttonhead

Results page: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5368&p=91404#p91404

Shadowloo Recap: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=2528

Because BAM is on October 2nd and 3rd, there is not going to be a CW in September. The ranbat was thus pushed forward to the last week of August.

I actually turned up on the day feeling pretty positive about the preparation I’ve done, but I pretty much went on to play like horse crap throughout the tournament.

I showed up just after noon, as I had made plans with Igor to come a little early for CW so we could get in some Dee Jay- Ryu practice. Unfortunately Igor ran into some nasty traffic, and despite leaving his house before 11 am, he only got there after 2 pm! Sorry man. We still got to play a couple of matches later on, and I learned quite a few important things that I’ll detail later.

I made my way into Abbotsford Convent, and noticed there was a food fair going on. That was pretty cool, because personally when I get lose horribly and get salty, I find solace in stuffing my face. With as much unhealthy fried food as possible!

I find Loki setting up and I help him with the tables a little bit. I was also pretty surprised to see Somniac and Toxy already inside. Normally they don’t show up until much later, around the time the SSF4 tournament starts at 4. Carlplight was also there, but I didn’t spend too much time talking to them; I was itching to start playing and warming up to playing on Xbox rather than PS3.

Somniac did tell me however of his matches with Sol online which I witnessed at the TEC house. It was interesting to see the different perceptions at work here; Sol was complaining when I was over that Somniac was turtling too much, and Somniac was telling me now that he thought Sol was just sitting there, which I found pretty amusing. Watching the matches, they were having multiple rounds go to time out. Maybe it takes two to turtle! I also found it interesting when Somniac said Sol doesn’t really rushdown that much, because that’s what Sol says about Somniac as well! I told him I found that kind of funny because both of them rush me the Fuck Down.

In any case Igor finally showed up, and we both got down to it. The big breakthrough I’ve made in the Dee Jay matchup is something that Igor showed me. Basically his EX up kicks whiffs on crouching, and I discovered that I could simply walk up and do meaty low short with an option select sweep to catch backdash, and that basically beats 100% of Dee Jay’s wake up options! So I don’t really need to test my crossup safe jump timing against his EX up kicks; I can simply walk up after any knockdown and meaty short him for free, into another sweep and untechable knockdown. I also had some success with using cmp to beat out some of his Sobats, and I also had an hilarious round where I screwed around with standing jab and beat his LK sobat, his jumps ins, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Now I do a whole bunch of work on my own, but these kind of things I probably would never have discovered on my own. This just shows the importance of playing other people and a wide variety of characters, as well as the power of sharing information. I was telling Igor some of Ryu’s setups as well, and we’re probably going to work on the matchup even more because we’ll be doing weekly level up sessions over at Deakin University every Saturday. Anybody in Melbourne wanting to level up is welcome to come! (Until we run out of space that is.)
Igor’s thread: http://www.ozhadou.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5374&p=91534#p91534
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Training for Bam: Hyphen and the TEC House

Posted on August 24, 2010 by muttonhead

I’ve really been motivated to train hard for BAM recently after my discussions with THK and Igor after Couchwarriors Round 6. THK and Igor were actually asking me to join them on their 3 man team for the BAM SSF4 team tourney, and we were discussing getting together for regular training sessions.

Now work and the logistics of finding a venue convenient for the 3 of us has proven to be quite problematic so far, so we haven’t actually met up for a session yet. Also, I had to drop out of the team because I might be teaming up with two of my friends, Joon Win and Eugene for BAM. Both of them don’t play SSF4 competitively, so I thought we might make a “Team Scrub” or “Team Noob” or “Team Losers Bracket” or something of that sort, and have some fun.

I figured this would be one of the only chances to get my good buddies into an SSF4 tournament, and experience some of that tournament hype firsthand. We probably will lose pretty quickly, but in my opinion team tournaments are meant for you to enjoy yourself and have a ton of fun. There’s nothing better than cheering for your buddy to clutch out a round, and conversely suffering the collective pain of getting OCVed by a Zangief or something.

That being said, I still want to try my hardest to do well in the singles tournaments, so I’ve been stepping up my training regimen whenever I can. Working on Bnb cmp cmp chk, and working on ground and safe jump option selects, and that elusive fhp chp srk combo. Which I’ve switched my plink (again) to hp~mp lp.

I’m always looking to play Melbourne people on PSN, and I finally got the chance to get in a few sets with Hyphen recently. If you recall, Hyphen was the Ibuki that knocked me out of CW in spectacular fashion quite a while back. At that time, I had never seen an Ibuki like his; constantly rushing down with the kunai vortex and the target combo super jump cancel resets. I got destroyed by him then, and he’s still the best Ibuki I’ve ever seen in person.

This explains why I was so keen in playing him online, and finally getting to work on the Hyphen-Ibuki matchup. The first set pretty much went down as I expected, I got tore up by his Ibuki and Viper, and I believe the win ratio was something like 15:1 or more to Hyphen.

I did get to learn a few things though. Hyphen was the first Ibuki to do the Kunai follow-up after an EX Up kicks reversal consistently to me, foiling my Solar Plexus Strike punish attempts and such. I soon figured out that you could simply LP DP through the Kunai follow-up, and get a free Ultra juggle. I was pretty much doing that every time, but I was feeling a little unsatisfied because when I didn’t have Ultra, I would do EX Fireball juggle for a total of 170 damage. A punish with one meter for 170 damage?

But I went to rewatch the Daigo vs Momochi Godsgarden set, and I noticed Daigo would simply dash forward after blocking the EX up kicks, and punish with cmp chp special. This avoids the Kunai, and if the Ibuki didn’t throw the Kunai, you still can punish the up kicks as per normal. So I’ve got to add that to my game now.

Hyphen didn’t do that much EX neckbreakers, but he was extremely good in his rushdown, bouncing all over the place with SJC. He was hitting his SJC to Ultra consistently, and he was tearing me up with the Kunai vortex, which after each successful hit he would combo into another knockdown and another Kunai vortex attempt. I was getting dominated, but slowly adapting to some things; like cmking his attempted slides to get in, how to block that Ibuki crossup etc.

After our GGs, I asked Hyphen on the Ozhadou PSN Feedback thread how to block the Kunai vortex. He said that if he releases the Kunai at the peak of his jump it’s a crossup, and if it’s released lower it would hit normally. He also left this very helpful video:

I must’ve watched this video ten times in a row, trying to burn that jump into my brain. I went through match videos, and thought a lot about the match.

I've got *cough* Ibuki on the brain.

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Joining the SRK Network

Posted on August 24, 2010 by muttonhead

Original post: http://shoryuken.com/content/srk-network-news-monday-august-23-2010-1506/

It’s an honour to be a part of the SRK network, a big thank you to Kineda and shoryuken.com!

To be honest, I feel a little petrified seeing my humble site up there with such luminaries such as Sonic Hurricane, Option Select and so many more, but hopefully I can continue to put out material that will be interesting to people and reward the faith SRK has shown in my site.

Also, I can’t forget to give a big shout-out to my fellow Australian site Shadowloo.com who also made it on the SRK Network!

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Dhalsim and Daigo

Posted on August 19, 2010 by muttonhead

There’s something about great Dhalsim players that brings the best out of Daigo. Here’s a compilation of the best matches:

Update: Daigo vs Arturo III $1000 MM at Season’s Beatings 2010

Updated: Daigo vs Filipino Champ, Socal Regionals 2010 MM

Updated: Daigo vs Filipino Champ, Norcal Tegionals 2010

SF4 Gamestop Nationals Daigo vs Iyo

Daigo vs Arturo Sanchez EVO 2009 moneymatch

Daigo vs Arturo EVO 2010 moneymatch rematch

Godsgarden Netplay Tournament FT10 Daigo vs Mochi

Daigo vs Arturo III $1000 MM at Season’s Beatings 2010

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Muttonhead’s Ryu safe jump option select list

Posted on August 16, 2010 by muttonhead

I’ve tried to keep this list as simple as possible to limit the memorisation required by my puny, forgetful brain.I’ll keep updating this list!

Updated: Makoto.

Updated: Late option select sweep; Guile, Chun Li, Dudley, Guy, Gen, Fei Long. Late option select tatsu: Ibuki.

Balrog:

sweep beats backdash and headbutt, gets hit by ex headbutt

cmk beats backdash (reset) and headbutt, and avoids ex headbutt

Chun Li:

mp dp beats backdash (range dependent), and EX SBK

late option sweep allows you to block EX SBK and catch backdash

Cody

Lp DP catches his backdash and allows you to punish his ex zonk (both whiff)

C Viper:

mp dp beats backdash, HP thunder knuckle, and trades with EX Burn Kick

Dhalsim:

HK tatsu catches teleport and backdash. Can’t escape super though.

Dudley

sweep and mp dp catches his backdash, but I’m having difficulty avoiding the EX DP.

late option select sweep catches backdash, and can block EX DP.

E.Honda:

mp dp beats Headbutt, EX Headbutt, Buttslam and Ochio. Trades with EX Ochio.

Fei Long:

Late option select sweep catches backdash, and can block all flame kicks.

Gen:

Late option select sweep catches backdash, and can block flash kick.

Guile:

Late option select sweep catches backdash, and can block flash kick.

Guy:

Late option select sweep catches backdash, and can block EX Tatsu.

Juri:

mp dp beats backdash and EX Pinwheel

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Fundamental Wakeup Defense by Sonic Hurricane (Or having good common sense)

Posted on August 16, 2010 by muttonhead

Good article by Sonic Hurricane, illustrating fundamentals that I’ve tried my best to adhere to since picking SF4, trying my best not to turn into a typical online flowchart srks away! shoto.

http://sonichurricane.com/?p=3923#more-3923

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Heart of Gold

Posted on August 15, 2010 by muttonhead

It’s been a long time since EVO, but it’s still very much in my head. And after watching Shadowloo’s video on Couchwarriors R6, I couldn’t help but remember this awesome video from EVO by 1up’s Richard Li.

update: I found this on youtube! What a legend.

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