theONEjanitor
Smash Champion
Link to original post: [drupal=615]Training to Be the Best[/drupal]
So I've been thinking recently.
I have a desire to be great in Brawl. I joined the game too late in Melee to really catch up with all of the great players, so I thought Brawl was my window of opportunity. And I picked up the game pretty quickly and starting doing well in the beginning, getting second in one of the first tournaments I ever entered.
By now, people are picking up steam and I fear I am being left behind, and I'm trying to figure out why. I mean, I can beat the average player, but I'm no longer doing very well in tournaments do to the rise of all the good players. And I think the reason is because I don't train with any kind of intensity. Originally I thought Brawl was simply a thinking-mans game, and therefore you didn't need to really do much in-game training, but now I'm not so sure.
When I see interviews with other world-champion players for other games, such as Quake, Halo, or Street Fighter, they always mention how hardcore they are about training. For many of these successful players, the game is as much a "job" as it is fun for them. They speak of 8-hour a day training sessions, and having wake up early or miss out on hanging with their friends due to their training.
Even in the game of Smash, I am reminded of someone like Mew2King who spent (and possibly still spends) much of his time training and developing ideas.
I'm starting to think that it will take that kind of dedication in order for me to become great at Brawl. This is just a personal thing, but I would really like to become a world-class player and win money playing. The money is out there.
The problem is that with the lack of an efficient online system, getting good practice in is difficult in Brawl. Sure you can play friendlies, but if you're not playing with people who are interested in training intensely, you might find yourself playing Sonic dittos on Spear Pillar and not really learning any strategies. And there is only so much you can do on your own.
Maybe I will figure something out. But I believe I will start to get more hardcore about this game.
So I've been thinking recently.
I have a desire to be great in Brawl. I joined the game too late in Melee to really catch up with all of the great players, so I thought Brawl was my window of opportunity. And I picked up the game pretty quickly and starting doing well in the beginning, getting second in one of the first tournaments I ever entered.
By now, people are picking up steam and I fear I am being left behind, and I'm trying to figure out why. I mean, I can beat the average player, but I'm no longer doing very well in tournaments do to the rise of all the good players. And I think the reason is because I don't train with any kind of intensity. Originally I thought Brawl was simply a thinking-mans game, and therefore you didn't need to really do much in-game training, but now I'm not so sure.
When I see interviews with other world-champion players for other games, such as Quake, Halo, or Street Fighter, they always mention how hardcore they are about training. For many of these successful players, the game is as much a "job" as it is fun for them. They speak of 8-hour a day training sessions, and having wake up early or miss out on hanging with their friends due to their training.
Even in the game of Smash, I am reminded of someone like Mew2King who spent (and possibly still spends) much of his time training and developing ideas.
I'm starting to think that it will take that kind of dedication in order for me to become great at Brawl. This is just a personal thing, but I would really like to become a world-class player and win money playing. The money is out there.
The problem is that with the lack of an efficient online system, getting good practice in is difficult in Brawl. Sure you can play friendlies, but if you're not playing with people who are interested in training intensely, you might find yourself playing Sonic dittos on Spear Pillar and not really learning any strategies. And there is only so much you can do on your own.
Maybe I will figure something out. But I believe I will start to get more hardcore about this game.
