How do YOU Shorthop?

[Oscular]

Now, this isn't a thread asking how to perform the technique of shorthopping, I'm pretty sure everyone has that down, what I'm asking is, what do you do to shorthop. I'm posting this in the CF thread because i wanna know how you guys SH with him, not other characters, because it differs.

For me, I always jump with the x button, so when i SH, I use my thumb on the first knuckle line and slide it off the x really fast. This works, but I wanna try and get a better way of SHing because when i do this in games and im trying to combo, it doesn't come out sometimes.

 

[Betrayed]

I... tap x, then move to A real fast or the c-stick depending on the aerial or how I need to DI it...

 

[RaynEX]

I used to thumb-slide the top-right corner of the Y button.

But i switch to tapping Y lightly. It'll force you to have more control over your controller in general. Tapping lightly is the suggested method.

 

[Psychoace]

I have a long thumbnail so I slide the edge of it on the bottom part of the x button.

 

[RaynEX]

lmao. ^ thats original.

 

[Volvagia]

I press the Y button lightly.

 

[Chaotic Yoshi]

I flick the bottom part of the X button quickly.

 

[Mars-]

My friend pushes the jump button. I don't really know how I short hop, but I know it is really useful to know how other people jump.

 

[Abulize]

Y button lightly. That's how I do it for all of my characters.

 

[TheManaLord]

I use the jump button.

 

[jmic]

I'm a piano player, so I press buttons with my fingertips. That means I need to be well-groomed and always have my nails cut. I also short hop with X. For JC grabs I use Y. Sometimes for short hop rising Uairs, I use the Control Stick.

I'm weird.

 

[Sariku]

Dude, all you have to do is change your Controller figuration, then make the jump command Left on the DPad. Then try short hopping. So much more challenging.

 

[Hylian]

I use X to SH with falcon....I just press the button...really not hard at all..though I guess that is from me being a fox/samus player lol.

 

[Wilhelmsan]

I shorthop mostly with the button, but for some reason I shffl uairs with the control stick. It just came to me that way.

 

[RapeFalcon]

I'm probly the only person that plays like this but I jump with the right side of my index finger and keep my thumb on the A button so that i can freely move it to the C-Stick or A, or B buttons depending on what I got to do

 

[RaynEX]

^



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[aMpLiFy]

I used to have a habit of jumping with the analog stick because I played the N64 version alot. I use X to shorthop.

 

[jmic]

I'm probly the only person that plays like this but I jump with the right side of my index finger and keep my thumb on the A button so that i can freely move it to the C-Stick or A, or B buttons depending on what I got to do

I'm pretty sure that's the claw grip. Mew2King is known for this grip with his Fox, I believe. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[RaynEX]

M2K doesn't claw.

as far as i'm aware.

 

[TheManaLord]

A lot of people use it. I use it. It makes everything easier/better. You can play relatively frame perfect in aspects like SHDL and JC'ing shines and SHDF and things like that.

 

[RaynEX]

how does this clawing thing work again? I forget the exact finger positioning.

 

[jmic]

I could've sworn I read somewhere on the boards that he does, but oh well.

The claw is exactly as **** Falcon described it, using the side of the index finger on Y, and the thumb ready for either A or the C-stick.

 

[TheKneeOfJustice]

I slide it off the bottom of X. I should probably take to tapping it instead though, or maybe switch to Y altogether, because it will likely make SHDL with Fox easier.

 

[Mars-]

MLG has an interview with M2k about him "clawing" his controller.

 

[RapeFalcon]

when people watch me play they can't understand how im playing with my hand positioned like that. . . .

 

[Hylian]

I definitly have one of the weirdest ways to hold the controller.

Not only do I claw, but I double claw. I hold the control stick with my thumb and index finger.

 

[Mars-]

I definitly have one of the weirdest ways to hold the controller.

Not only do I claw, but I double claw. I hold the control stick with my thumb and index finger.

Trail does this with his control stick too. It is quite odd looking, but I can see how it would benifit, well, not really.

 

[D.B]

I flick the bottom part of the X button quickly.

True that

 

[RaynEX]

I definitly have one of the weirdest ways to hold the controller.

Not only do I claw, but I double claw. I hold the control stick with my thumb and index finger.

Lol! So THATS what its called. I remember a long time ago seeing a guy at a tournament play his Falco like that. I couldn't believe my eyes. I kept calling over my friends to check it out (and he was actually good too.) 0_0

Actually probably one of the weirdest styles of holding the controller was demonstrated by Jv3x3 @ a tourny here in Canada a few years ago. I remember him putting the controller on his lap and tapping away at it like it was a keyboard. Not holding it at all...

I think thats what he did...but now that I think about it, how would he have been able to WD or lcancel?

 

[Animal control]

just be quick with your fingers when you tap X then A

 

[yinn_skitchy]

i shorthop by pressing the jump button

 

[tofucake]

I short hop by I learned to short hop with Fox so now Falcon seems slow.

 

[ProNoob]

Shorthopping consistently requires lots of practice. LOTS!!!
Shorthopping should be as natural as reading and writing.