Looking for a mentor

[Jrzfine]

Right, so lately it feels like I've hit a cap on what I can do to improve on my own. I've been entering as many tournaments as I can in an effort to get better against real people, but your opponents don't point out your mistakes, just capitalize on them. So, I've decided to try to find a mentor and/or sparring partner who I could consistently fight to get tips and learn from. I would look for people locally, but none of my mates play competitively and Arizona's Smash community is...lacking, compared to, say, the Golden State.

 

[Vic]

Right, so lately it feels like I've hit a cap on what I can do to improve on my own. I've been entering as many tournaments as I can in an effort to get better against real people, but your opponents don't point out your mistakes, just capitalize on them. So, I've decided to try to find a mentor and/or sparring partner who I could consistently fight to get tips and learn from. I would look for people locally, but none of my mates play competitively and Arizona's Smash community is...lacking, compared to, say, the Golden State.

Well you've kinda given yourself a solution to your issue, albeit unknowingly. In matches where you lose (or hell, any matchup where you feel the opponent was taking heavy advantages of your shortcomings), make sure you save the replay. At a later time and date go over a few of them, and keep a pen and paper handy. On one side jot down the mistake(s) you made in a given match, and then on the other come up with possible solutions to these shortcomings. Replay review I feel is huge: for me, it was a substantial help to further improve my sc2 play and the same can be said for smash imo.

 

[Jrzfine]

Well you've kinda given yourself a solution to your issue, albeit unknowingly. In matches where you lose (or hell, any matchup where you feel the opponent was taking heavy advantages of your shortcomings), make sure you save the replay. At a later time and date go over a few of them, and keep a pen and paper handy. On one side jot down the mistake(s) you made in a given match, and then on the other come up with possible solutions to these shortcomings. Replay review I feel is huge: for me, it was a substantial help to further improve my sc2 play and the same can be said for smash imo.

Okay, I will try this. Seems useful!

 

[Inazuma]

If you haven't read David Sirlin's Playing to Win, I highly recommend you do. It will make you considerably better at competitive games. You can buy the book or read it for free online at the following url:

http://www.sirlin.net/ptw/

 

[Mercify]

I am kind of in the same position as you, not really being able to improve much without any more without extra help. With that I am willing to try sparring with you if you'd like, but I live in New Jersey so it would have to be online. Let me know if you would like to try it out!

 

[lie015]

Hey guys add me maybe we all can play together and get better my name is lie015