Is it normal to be awful at stick when you first try? I was at San Japan today and the game room had tons of FGs (BB, MVC3, P4U, SFxT, SF4, Melty, and Smash) going and some rentable fight sticks, so I got one and played some BB with other people.*
I...did not so so well. In particular, I was pretty bad at doing special moves--I did the correct motions and everything, but it only actually registered like 10% of the time. Maybe it was the stick, I dunno. Maybe I was just holding the stick wrong?
But it felt was less precise than pad. This was probably due to the stick being old and kinds beat-down (hey, it was free to use), but it just felt mushy and imprecise