Hand positions?

[Duality]

What's a good hand position for short jumping, wave dashing, etc. Perhaps I'm just not that good at this but when I try to short jump my jump is always long unless I hit it with my pinky hella quick.

 

[Sizzle]

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=73411

Check out that thread for a video of hands doing wavedashes and whatnot.

 

[Duality]

Nice, thanks man.

 

[Jekyll]

I was NEVER able to short jump consistently with fox in the heat of an actual match back when I handled A,B and Y with my thumbs. I ended up changing my grip around december so that my thumb still handles A,B and the C stick but my index finger comes down and controls the Y button. "The Finger" then takes over Z and I use L for everything else. Whenever I need to short hop I just do a kind of "flick" with my index finger to quickly run it over Y. It took about a day or two before I felt comfortable doing a match that way, and it took weeks before I felt like I was totally comfortable and competent with it.

 

[Cornstalk]

I was NEVER able to short jump consistently with fox in the heat of an actual match back when I handled A,B and Y with my thumbs. I ended up changing my grip around december so that my thumb still handles A,B and the C stick but my index finger comes down and controls the Y button. "The Finger" then takes over Z and I use L for everything else. Whenever I need to short hop I just do a kind of "flick" with my index finger to quickly run it over Y. It took about a day or two before I felt comfortable doing a match that way, and it took weeks before I felt like I was totally comfortable and competent with it.

That's exactly how I shifted my hand to play about a year ago. Took me about a week of practice just to retrain my hands to hold the controller and push the right buttons with the right fingers, but once I got it down, it was perfectly comfortable.

It made a big difference in my handling too. I went from barely being able to do 1 short hop lazer with falco because my fingers were to slow to being able to shoot low enough to hit a crouched kirby reliably.

 

[Duality]

Hmmm I might try that out so my thumb should cover a,b, and c? Index finger x and y and middle finger Z?

 

[BrTarolg]

heres a pro way to hold the controller -

use both your thumb and index finger to grip the two edges of the joystick, and your middle finger for the l-button

use your entire thumb to cover the x, b AND a button, and use your index finger to cover the y, and use your middle and ring to cover the z and r-button.

oh yeah LD

 

[fluffy]

i use thumbs w/ like 99% of gamers.

but azen can play 1 handed...

 

[the problem]

well i have big hands so i keep it near the A buttom and just slitghtly shift it so its easy if u go big hands

 

[Platypus]

Well, that _is_ the Nintendo-sanctioned grip. For some mysterious reason, big hands are unsuited for XBox controllers.