How often do you practice?

[KevinM]

Practice?? We talkin about practice?? Not the game, the game I give my heart and soul for... we talking bout practice?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI

I'm ashamed it took this long...

Dumpstered.

 

[colonoscopy]

Seeing as how I'm relatively new to the game, only just recently acquiring a Gamecube for the first time, and how interested I am in getting as technical as I can, I've been practicing against CPUs 3-4 hours a day. Goddamn this game is too fun.

 

[Metal Reeper]

I hate practicing. I never really did it until recently. I really been liking my fox lately....so i practice and have fun. Watch out.

 

[keeper]

You sound exactly like a sheik main from where I live (Oregon)

No you.
10yous

The only practice I get is on bots unless I take the bus an hour each direction and spend $5 every Wednesday, other than our monthlies. At home I just sharpen tech skill and test stuff.

 

[Big_R]

when i first started i couldn't get enough. we had the fests that would be a few hours weekly. id practice like every off day. prolly put in like an hour n a half. as i got better practice got less. i could get by with maintenance. it needed to be with others tho. i always craved more than i ever got though.

now that last time i even played was about a month ago. it's all a bonus now. just play for funsies and if i can pull any sick **** then it's cool. i'm slipping away though and noticing i'm playing like an old fogey compared to new metagame

 

[KirbyKaze]

I fluctuate greatly.

Can be like 10+ hours in a week, sometimes /significantly/ more. Other weeks it's none at all. Depends.

 

[ShroudedOne]

also, practicing tech skill between stocks is one of the best things ever[/b]

People always say this. Why?

 

[flantasticflan]

I have 2-3 days out of the week to play with people, other than that I usually practice in 100 times earth's gravity for 30 minutes a day.

 

[Bing]

Well, I try to play as much as possible, I work awkward hours(11am to about 10pm by the time I get home) So I dont really have that many Chances to play except for Sunday's and Monday. regardless I do atleast an hour of tech practice and half an hour of CPU's every night after work, I would do more but Im too mentally tired by the end of the work day.

Now I also live in a pretty dead region, infact, theres 1 other player who plays in tournament, and he's from the GTA just here for school. We try and play atleast twice a week for a few hours. But again work and school interfere.

Also, Local tounaments to me are the ones held monthly. To attend these is kind of expensive but I still try to attend them every month(I only missed 1, that was this past one because it was the week after Apex, and I was broke from said event)


Also, I read the comment by Tai about practicing Tech Skill between stocks, I ALWAYS do this. I find that mid match is when I generally playing the best, the most focused, So I like to do this.

For marth, I just Wave Dash around, waveland on platforms etc.

For Fox, I either waveland and laser like crazy, Practice waveshines to see how many I can do in a row(Im just starting to get consistent) Or I grab the ledge, Short hop onto the ledge, waveshine off the ledge, FireFox Stall. Repeat.

 

[Violence]

At least 10 minutes when I get home from work. Mainly movement.

I find that some things I can't practice without a partner. Namely, DI, SDI, ledge techs, powershielding different heights and rhythms of Falco's shl, shield DI, etc.

But I'm trying to work on incorporating utilt into basic spacing, which takes quite some technical practice for me.

 

[Bones0]

You can practice ledge techs by going into Training Mode and throwing Motion Sensors onto the ledge than recovering into it.

 

[Bing]

I hate doing anything in training mode because you cant use the c-stick...

 

[Wizzrobe]

I practice about 30 mins to an hour every day.

 

[DerfMidWest]

uhm... about 2 or 3 hours a day against bots, mostly just to learn techskill

usually about 6 or 7 hours against actual people on fridays and saturdays, sometimes a little bit on sunday too.

 

[Mr Postman]

You sound exactly like a sheik main from where I live. (Oregon)

You sound exactly like a sheik main from where I live. (Oregon)

What is the meaning of this?

 

[SpaceFalcon]

i don't have an f'in console anymore, so my practicing is just hitting the subscriptions button on youtube. I only smash about once every 2-4 weeks anyway. If I play for like an hour I feel fully warmed up tech skill wise, so there's no point training. I learn a lot more from videos, practicing alone just creates bad habits.

practiced tech skill tons in 2006-2008 though.

 

[omgwtfToph]

I'll go through like, a few weeks where I practice about an hour a day then I'll stop for a few weeks. Usually coincides with whether or not there's a tourney coming up, and whether or not school is busy lolz

 

[Fregadero]

Alone, 2hrs a week.
With friends, 15hrs a week.

 

[Walt]

I usually get rides to and school with bob$, he hang outs with me and my roommates like every night, we I probably get about an hour a night with him. When a local peach player Azusa wants he gives me a call and comes over and we play for like 3-4 hours once every two weeks or so. I've begun to hold smashfests at my house when I have free time/no homework once every couple weeks. Last couple ones lasted for about 8 hours. When I get bored I still turn on the cube and whack computers if I'm not playing SW:TOR or guitar..... I practice a lot.

 

[King Funk]

1-2 hours 4-5 times in a normal week.

Right now... exams.

 

[DerfMidWest]

all you guys practice so little <_<

 

[Divinokage]

All you guys?

 

[DerfMidWest]

most of you guys*

 

[Sinji]

I used to get carried away and play from 9pm to 3am and not notice it. lol. But now I practice for 2- 2 1/2 hours.

Right now... exams.

same here.

 

[Mr Postman]

Alone - Whenever I feel like practicing something
With people - About 5 hours a week

 

[n1000]

These days I'm strict with your practice. Someone said, "it's not practice that makes perfect, perfect practice makes perfect."

Comboing level 1s over and over is fun but I've seen a significant improvement in my play since I became willing to practice the boring stuff. Anyone can shffl but almost everyone could shffl better.

Also if you practice on unlimited length time matches you're a casual, it's all about never-ending bonus matches.

 

[KrIsP!]

A few hours each day alone.Working on all ATs right now.

 

[ranmaru]

I have been practicing more than usual. : D Because I don't want to lag behind. : P And to improve otherwise

 

[Thanos828]

I can say for myself that sometimes it's not that I don't practice but I'm ignorant of what to practice.

I don't know if I'm the only one, but just something I thought of

 

[ranmaru]

How so?

Like I try to practice what I think is important. Or things I mess up usually during real matches or just can't do but I try to do them.

If I AM ignorant, it'd only because I just didn't think it was THAT important, or I just haven't thought of it. Like, platform dropping. A friend linked me to a vid, and I thought "I should practice this actually", because I never do well on platforms. It's always "I suck on platforms, but don't know how to get better at it"

I actually should be more proactive... hmmm

 

[choknater]

i practice whenever i want to learn something new, or whenever i'm with homies who play

 

[S0FT]

IDK if PB&J practices his Ice Climbers anymore because they just lost to my Pichu.

 

[oukd]

I used to put 70%~80% of my practice in friendlies, but now that I commute to college I don't have as much of a chance to practice with other people...which means my solo practice has increased a lot. Practicing on my own has definitely helped in its own way though.

I mess around for a few hours whenever I get bored...so maybe 3-12 hours a week? It fluctuates a lot, but I try to get at least an hour in every 2-3 days.

 

[ranmaru]

I have been practicing a bit more. In fact I should keep this thread on subscribe (like I already have it) so that I remember to practice. : D

 

[Nintendude]

all you guys practice so little <_<

I'm honestly surprised at just how MUCH people practice.

 

[ranmaru]

I'm honestly surprised at just how MUCH people practice.

I am not. They really want to get good. They know what they need to do. Practice. (Course they gotta go to tournies too, but Practice helps)

 

[choknater]

i'd like to hear more about s0ft vs pbj

 

[V]

2-3 hours a day doing various specific nuances. The way I see Marth is that since his sword is always the same length what determines if I tip each move is the combination of my movement and my opponent's movement. I can only control half of that equation, so to better my chances of having good spacing I need to have absolute command of my movement and every nuance of it. Being able to WD all 3 lengths (in place also which is very underrated), doing any tilt out of any WD, doing any tilt out of any aerial and vice versa, spacing an aerial perfectly out of a DD, utilizing different DD lengths and WD lengths to control the stage with just JC grabs, utilizing wavelanding on the ground and also platforms to bait things/put myself in a better position, everything possible on the ledge, and most importantly making everything smooth and as frame perfect as possible.

 

[PK Webb]

If i practice i just waveshine and waveland everywhere. Just move around the stage

 

[ranmaru]

If i practice i just waveshine and waveland everywhere. Just move around the stage

Yeah good idea. Gotta keep our basics practiced as well, not just the hard stuff. : D