Lucien
just remember
(14:28:28): you dont have to hit them to punish them
(14:28:31): just getting out is a punish

Pre Good Shit German

Alot has happened since my last entry.
I've been doing decently well at tournaments.
My fox match up has improved leaps and bounds since losing to KFC.
I have the distance down now and my chain grabbing is worlds better.

Right now I feel my Falco matchup could use a clean up. Calming down under pressure and getting more consistent with power shielding

My falcon matchup is great at seeing as I was able to trump Silent spectre and I' loving the doc match up after beating Shroomed as well.

Losing to Justins (Falcomist) marth really gave me a wae up call on how much I need to work on the marth match up.
Couple things I need t0 start doing
-Play simple
-Dash dance to avoid stuff
-Stand my ground
-Play faster

Bio 4 is next weekend, and although I don;t think I'll be able to enter I'd love to get some friendlies with M2k.

BAM!

So yeah, The work and research payed off on learning how to play vs Doc. I was able to beat HMW that tourny and did pretty well overall beating Scar as well. Placing 3rd overall, I need some work on the fox match up..I'll write more later about it but I'm too lazy right now. I don't feel like writing during the school year much because writing take up lot of my mental resource.

Fighting Doc

-More Later
Lucien ran through a clinic of how to play vs Doc

Walk forward
Play close wit F-air
F-AIR ALOT , Nair is easy to get under
Once your close you can work a dash dancing game
Be aggressive, Doc needs to work harder
Make a wall

Hmm

"I wonder what causes this, and if it could be changed," shows a much deeper thought process than, "Is it laziness or incompetence that prevents my desires from being fulfilled?" ~ floon

Old school Videos

I got very caught up in the "Watching my opponents movement" thing that I forgot to be patient and let opportunities come to me.
Watching KDJ's Marth reminded me that waiting is how to play some matchups.
Now there is a time to just run up grab etc but it's not all the time. I definetly need to bait more. Even Watching Amsah vs M2k. M2k wouldn't just pressure Amsah with guarenteed stuff. He would bait jumps (waiting) even on offense.

A couple of notes
-React to rolls better
-Use more mind game pressure
-Use Shield better
-Fsmash otherway
-Have a gameplan for every match up
-Tipper f-air vs Shiek
-Use platforms and move around more.
-Rolling is okay in guarenteed situations
I got really used to Lucien punishing extraneious movement in my game that I kinda removed alot of it from my game. Movement is good but doing it out of impulse is a bad idea against some players. Then some players won't even get near you if spam f-air. Smash is wierd like that.
I think my biggest problem is having multiple mind-sets through out my match. Maybe that's a practice thing, where I am trying to concioussly improve a facet in my game.
For example- Punishing Dash dashes.
Some time I get carried away and that's all I look for.
Sometimes I feel like reacting puts me in ''losing situation'' where if I don't react then I lost because of that. Thing is though, great players blend every aspect in there game and no one is perfect. Where one player saw a run up grab another player sees an opportunity to bait a jump.
Safe movement isn't really safe because someone could be baiting that movement. That's what is crazy about smash, nothing is black and white.