"Long" Moonwalk?

[Hermit]

I've been messing around with CF for awhile now, and practicing moonwalking. In most of the videos I watch where there is moonwalking, they go very far, and I hardly go anywhere. What are people doing to slide so far?

Note: I read the sticky and didn't see anything on a long moonwalk.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

you have to do it faster.

 

[Psychoace]

Like sveet said but quoted from red skirts moonwalking thread

Notes
A lot of people get confused on what exactly cause you to moonwalk the farthest. There is no way you can moonwalk "faster" just farther.

What determines how far you moonwalk, is how fast you move the control stick from one side of the control stick to the other without going through the center. If you go through the center of the control stick, then you will just dash dance.

 

[Vall3y]

to do it longer, focus on two things:
moving to control stick faster to the other side
and moving it in the shortest way possible (you dont have to do a full half circle, if you get what i mean)

 

[ConnorTheKid]

you have to do it faster.

that's what she said!!!

on topic: you DO have to do the moonwalk faster for a longer moonwalk

 

[abit_rusty]

sveet's answer was clear as crystal. should have stopped there.

 

[Klowne]

Dashing in one direction first helps too, right? Since no one mentioned it i'm just going to assume it's common knowledge, but i guess i'll throw it out there anyway...

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

lol moonwalk is a dash in one direction. but no, you dont have to do it out of a dash dance and dash dancing has no effect on the length.

 

[jmic]

OMFG, are you kidding? I posted it in big, bold, red letters.


edit:

Bottom line:

If your moonwalk is too short, you're not moving the control stick fast enough.

 

[°UÇK]

I had problems with moonwalking too. the thing is trying to moonwalk out of the stand wont get anywhere especially when you just started practicing the moonwalk.

Like everything in smash it takes practise. Getting sexy is a progress!

To start, I would recommend you to do it out of the WALK.
start walking one direction, wait a short moment (there are 3 different walking types: slow, middle and fastwalk.) and then start moonwalking by flicking the controllstick back and diagonallydown/in a halfcircle/NOT through the center forward again. moonwalking out of the fastwalk gets you the farest, with any char. If you do this you will see recognizable results even if you did it slow.

As you get comfortable with walk->moonwalk try to dashdance to moonwalk. the key for me was not to try to dashdance (immediate) to moonwalk, really hectic and felt uncomfortable, just perform a "medium" long dash (or foxtrot) to one side and then try to moonwalk just like the walk only a little faster.

Try this and tell me if it worked

 

[Rang Flash]

It's less like a half-circle and more like a Nike "swoosh" thing, with the long part the direction you want to moonwalk.

 

[abit_rusty]

if the OP actually read through the moonwalk thread, not just the first post, there would be no questions asked.

 

[Smash G 0 D]

Press down on the C-stick in the middle of your moonwalk. 'Twill double the distance.

 

[ch_checkmeout]

Don't moonwalk at all. I don't, and look at how good I am.





Sarcasm.

 

[AIDS]

lol i do moonwalks by fluke, im wavedashing and dash dancing, mixing that up around the stage and once and a while i get a random moonwalk, it is so funny, i did a super long one last weekend, i can not moonwalk worth crap when i try though! lol or not far at all.

 

[Toushi]

just practice i used to suck at it now i can keep doing moonwalks out of one another until im off the stage. the more you do it the more you can use it like i do to do cool things http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_fgdpcsOA (i moonwalk better now then i did when this was recorded)