You know, I may have missed something in this discussion, but isn't zard's upB already DIable? Maybe I'm not sure of what you're asking for, but I can see definitive differences between upB while holding forward and upB without direction. Actually *trys something*, it seems you can actually start to hold back after the upB starts rising, and move slightly backwards from where you were going. You end up straight above where you started. Isn't this what you wanted? It's there, just work out the details.