Recent content by bts.mongoose

Do you have any recommended reading for intention theory? The way you talk about it makes me think it's an established area of study, but searching it up has given me mixed results. Are there any other key terms that would be good to search for?

What's the best thing you can do to prepare once you know who you're going to have to play at a tournament? At a lower level, is it more worth your time(with respect to performance at the tournament and also overall learning in general) to prepare for a specific player, or try to spend some time...

I have a mentality question: an oft discussed topic, in this thread and in well known books like Inner Game of Tennis, is sources of motivation, both good and bad. I've heard that the only sustainable or "good" things to be motivated by are playing to learn or playing for fun. But after some...

The big ones I always hear are anger makes you more risk prone and fear makes you more risk averse.

Can you elaborate a little more on what you mean by internalized knowledge, and how to acquire it? I assume you mean understanding something intuitively rather than intellectually, but I'd like if it were demystified a little bit.

Just for clarity's sake, when you talk about threatening range in neutral, you're referring the opponent's rather than your own, correct?

Thank you for the response. So would you say I'm maybe going too wide with it? Like, is the solution to break it down into smaller pieces instead of trying to look at the big picture all at once?

Alright, so this is a stupidly vague question, but I'm still typing it: When people say they're "learning a matchup" or "how to play neutral" in a matchup, what are they actually trying to learn? My idea has always been something like, you have a goal, and you want to learn setups that achieve...

So to that end, will top players generally commit to even a small option, like dtilt, only after they've done some form of conditioning or observation that makes them confident that it'll work? Or do they sometimes make a commitment "randomly," or simply to gain information?

When doing analysis, is it equally important to make note of the feints that Marth players do as well as the actual approaches? For example, if I'm trying to examine the interaction that happens every time the Marth player approaches the Fox by running at him, should I be paying attention to all...

So I think that it's pretty imperative that in every matchup I have a good, fleshed out gameplan going in. But presently, my strategy for developing a gameplan has been watching top level Marths in various matchups and trying to get an idea of the kind of positions they try to set up, the moves...

Immensely helpful replies, thanks all.

I often hear people talk about how you need to build up "respect" for your hitboxes, or that you need to make your sword felt without swinging it. Let me know if I'm wrong about any of the following: I interpret this as meaning you show your opponent, through zoning, that they can't "get away"...

PP, I'd like to hear your thoughts, as well as other people's thoughts on this quote from streetfighter player Daigo Umehara: "By 'reading' an opponent (memorizing their habits, tells, and methods), you take your focus off of yourself and what you are doing. While knowing an opponent's habits...

Okay, quick, potentially pretty complex question but I don't think so? So in the Peach matchup, I think I have a pretty solid gameplan for avoiding getting hit. I dashdance outside of like, dash attack range, and try to stay close enough to punish her for pulling a turnip. If she jumps then I...