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Blood for Oil
Excellent post by UltraDavid from SRK! Every Hakan player should take a look: “Lately I’ve begun to get more comfortable with doing an oil even when I know I’ll get hit (people are calling this “blood for oil” heh). One … Continue reading
PSN battle log; the last two weeks.
I played crazyandy1982’s Gen a while ago and did pretty well against him, even with my Hakan. Not getting hit by mk hands mk hands helped a bit. I felt my zoning game was pretty much on point, and obviously … Continue reading
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Tagged BaldieBasher, Blanka, crazyandy1982, Impakt55, Kazzee, Ryu, Ultra SFIV
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Getting that counterhit part 2: Notes on Valle vs Cheeseface Immortal
I was thinking about frame traps for a while yesterday, and happened to watch this match; Valle vs Cheeseface Immortal (Claw) at Midwest Championships. Watching it was a great lesson in frame trapping. Some quick notes: 1st round 00:27 He … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Valle, Cheeseface Immortal, Keno, match notes, Midwest Championships, Ryu, Ultra SFIV
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Eyeballing your opponent
One deceptively simple question that I’ve yet to find an answer to is: where do you look at on the screen during a match? When I was just starting out in SF4, I spent most of my time looking directly … Continue reading
Street Fighter is Dead
A beautiful piece by Darry, from iplaywinner.com.
Essential SF4 viewing
Now that SF4 is done and dead, and SSF4 is here, I thought it would be good to list the many moments that made 2009 such an awesome year for the Street Fighter spectator. (I can’t play SF that well, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Valle, Arturo, Chris Hu, Combofiend, Daigo, Fuudo, Gootecks, Infiltration, Iyo, John Choi, Long Island Joe, Luffy, Mago, Marn, Mike Ross, Momochi, P.R. Balrog, Poongko, Ryan Hart, tournament, Ultra SFIV, Yeb, Zangitroll
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Random matchup notes
-Bison’s ex scissors kick is -8 on block. I should be able to punish it better than just hp srk. -Gen’s ex rolling thingie is -3 on block. I need to test whether I can consistently reversal dp it, or … Continue reading
Getting that counterhit
With most of my opponents on psn being at the intermediate level and not truly high level, (I am perhaps significantly below intermediate), I find a lot of my offense being beaten by people mashing crouch tech. I try and … Continue reading
First time at Box Hill
At long last, I finally worked up the courage to head down to Box Hill for one of their tournaments. I got seventh place! But I didn’t win a single match. Let me explain that to you: it was their … Continue reading
One and out at Galactic Circus
One of the first tournaments I ever went to was the Galactic Circus tournament held in March 2010 with a cash prize of $1000! The writeup can be found here: http://www.shadowloo.com/?p=1237 I wasn’t planning on going for the tournament, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Galactic Circus, Recap, tournament, Ultra SFIV
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Upping my damage
One thing that I feel good about my Ryu at this stage is my consistency with basic combos. Unlike a lot of online Ryus I play, who do combos like crossup jmk, hp srk fadc ultra without hit confirming, risking … Continue reading
Should I…moneymatch Daigo?
As many Australian SF players are aware of, Daigo Umehara is coming down to Sydney for the Evo APAC qualifiers to try to win a ticket to Evolution. Link: http://www.ozhadou.net As I main Ryu, it would a dream fulfilled to … Continue reading
Hakan ddt setups
I’ve picked up Hakan as my new main in SSF4. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem that good. Unreliable anti-airs without Ultras, a lack of a hit-confirmable knockdown combo like Gief does, he has no crossup and no good GTFO me move. … Continue reading
Being a scrub
I have decided to keep a record of my Street Fighter 4 progress and journey. I know a lot of people think investing so much into a fighting game is stupid, but this is strictly for myself. I started playing … Continue reading
Being a Scrub 