Below is Twinkletoes' post from a discussion of ours in another thread. I also posted a thread in here about my discovery of how to further increase Captain Falcon's f-smash, which twinkletoes lists as (c) . He also talks about the other two methods. I really only find the (c) technique useful because it goes farther than the others.
My thread in the falcon forum.
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=152326
My thread in the tactics forum.
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=4110066#post4110066
Twinkletoes's post found on the third page of the tactics forum thread that discusses all three ways to increase the f-smash.
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There are two kinds of "stutter step" and this is neither. I think you should name this a sliding smash or something since the mechanic that makes it work is much different and the result is different as well.
The two kinds of stutter step smashing are
a)left on the control, right on the c-stick (which you named)
b)right on the control stick, right on the c-stick (discovered by yours truly)
and then we have your discovery (I'll credit it to you because you put me on the track of finding it)
c) lightly tap the control stick right, smash the control stick left, and smash the c-stick right-- all in immediate succession. (smashing the control stick in the first step will result in a dash attack or a stutter step)
To give you an idea on distance between the three things we have here I went to Final destination and used the dark green arrows on the stage that point outward as a guide. I put Sonic's toe to one tip and measured how many times I would have to do a technique to get his body entirely on the other side of the arrow.
a) Takes 3 stutter steps no matter how you do it
b) Takes 2 if you time it right
c) Takes 1
So in other words, your method yields 3xs the distance of what most people on the Sonic forum have been using, and 2xs what I've been using. Of course, the need for each will probably be situational but it's good to add as much to the ol' technique arsenal as possible.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the reason why it is different can be seen in the tapping of the control stick. If you smash the control stick as you do in a stutter step you will see your character dash. If you tap and then smash in the opposite direction you will see your character move forward ever so slightly and then quickly run in the opposite direction. To distill that even further, if you just do the tap you will notice that instead of going into the dash animation, the character just takes a short shuffle forward. I tested what would happen if you just did the tap and the smash and instead of sliding the initial short move forward is the only distance added to the smash.
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