Agni

Woah. I tried your suggestions of "break it down into parts" on AH3, and I actually managed to consistently pull off a Weiß combo. Now, granted, it was an extremely simple 2A 5B 5C 236A, but still. I also see what you mean by muscle memory--as I practiced it, I noticed that I was starting to commit it to muscle memory. Thanks. I actually feel motivated to continue now.

Really? Even if they can easily perfect me consistently? (Granted, I did have fun maining Hakumen in CT netplay)

I'm not good enough for that kind of thing, now, but if I ever do get good enough, I'll think about it.

>3 people That's....low. This is the 9th largest city in the whole damn US! I probably couldn't go to an offline meet anyway, I'm only 16 and I'm unemployed without a car, so I'd have to convince my parents to take me, and there's no way they'd let me go hang out with some guys in their 20s.

Hi, I'm a avid follower of FGs and especially ones like BB/GG. I say "follower" and not "player" because for a long while, I merely followed the FG scene. I didn't play--I was in it for the metagame and watching matches by other players. I did this because I am, for lack of a better term, god-awful at fighting games, and I had kinda just "given up" for lack of a better term on actually playing them. ...Of course, I couldn't just do that, so I've decided to try my hand at it again. Now for now, of course. I need to get CSE (Only fighting game I have right now is AH3). Anyway, I've been able to pinpoint my main difficulty with FGs, and it's mainly inputs. Not putting them in--I can do pretty every except 360s (seriously, how the hell are you supposed to do those without accidently making yourself jump?) well on pad, and they're probably easier on stick anyway, so that's not the problem. My problem is that whenever I try to do even the simplest combos, my mind just sorta "blanks out". What I mean is, I all of a sudden basically forget how to do the simplest things, and then I sorta panic and whiff horribly. This happens to me everytime I try to do a combo in an FG. I can memorize the inputs as much as I want, but I become the dexterical equivalent of a drunken hobo who's spent the past six hours downing 210 proof* moonshine as soon as that first hit lands. Maybe playing on pad excerbates this, but I don't think it comes down to my choice in controller (and I'm thinking of getting a stick anyway). I'm just a scrub. Actually, I'm probably worse than a scrub. I'm that guy that scrubs point at and laugh at and say "thank god I'm not that guy". It also doesn't help that getting better is hard for me because my town (San Antonio) doesn't seem to have a very big scene for FGs (or gaming in general) AND I generally tend to be too embarassed of my skills, or lack thereof, to actually challenge somebody (I remember that I once went online in MVC3--in the first match I got into, I got triple perfected by some other guy using Tron. That was the first and last time I ever did netplay on that game, and was so embarassing that I just gave up FGs--until now, that is) ...But I'm rambling here, so I guess I'm just going to cut this short right here. Any advice? *I'm well aware that that's logically impossible

Oh, damn, there's actually a scene for BB here in San Antonio? I'm surprised.