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Who Trained You

Sleepy

Smash Ace
Joined
Jul 6, 2006
Messages
651
Location
Pasadena, CA (626)
I was trained by pandamasterx4 first. He gave me a lot of tips on spacing and such, although I'm not really much good, he showed me concepts. I trained with my friend gekigarion for a long time, he has pretty much given up playing, I still play. Now Jopez and Patrick and his crew give me some direction, but otherwise a lot more match experience.
 

ArdeS

Smash Journeyman
Joined
Jul 29, 2008
Messages
447
Location
Lake Forest, CA (949)
I can read up on strategies and watch as many videos as I want, but I rarely get the chance to actually play the game with someone in-person unless it's at a tournament. Wish I had people to train with other than my brother. -_-
 

$BONE$

Smash Ace
Joined
Aug 20, 2006
Messages
906
Location
San Diego

Rickety--> (Dirty playstyle)
Saint Patrick--> (Campy playstyle)
Edrees--> (Very smart playstyle)
DSF--> ( Mindgame influenced playstyle)
<--M2K. (Accurate/Definite playstyle) (I played for hours on end when he came down)

Those are the only people who've really changed my play style after playing them.

Edit: oh, HugS changed my playstyle a lot also after playing him a couple of times. he was one of my favorite styles. he's very good at clutching. oh, even though i played him for a little bit, i thought romeos falcon had insane potential. it was so good when he wanted it to be.
 

aznforce817

Smash Lord
Joined
Jan 12, 2007
Messages
1,239
Location
Mission Viejo, California
I was inspired to play Falco by Zhu.

I learned basics of Falco from my friend Eric (EK).

Worked on it on my own for a while just playing against my group of friends.

P showed me how to play smarter a few times.

And now regular practices with Kira and DCmoney.

Mango taught me falco for bout 3 mins. Lolololol.
 

Kouryuu

Smash Champion
Joined
Aug 15, 2008
Messages
2,017
No formal training on my part.

Mikael from Japan inspired me to main Peach.

And as far as how I got better, I just played many friends around the block who wanted to get good at Smash just like me.

Afterwards, I went to tournaments, played many smashers and learned more about the game. All my friends, opponents and spectators had something to offer and I used it all to my advantage. The more tournaments I went to, the more people I played and the better I got.
 

embracethe12

Smash Lord
Joined
Jan 2, 2008
Messages
1,263
Location
Moorpark

Rickety--> (Dirty playstyle)
Saint Patrick--> (Campy playstyle)
Edrees--> (Very smart playstyle)
DSF--> ( Mindgame influenced playstyle)
<--M2K. (Accurate/Definite playstyle) (I played for hours on end when he came down)

Those are the only people who've really changed my play style after playing them.

Edit: oh, HugS changed my playstyle a lot also after playing him a couple of times. he was one of my favorite styles. he's very good at clutching. oh, even though i played him for a little bit, i thought romeos falcon had insane potential. it was so good when he wanted it to be.
wow i wish i had that kind of training.
seriously efficient everyway possible
 

Naota21t

Smash Champion
Joined
Jul 15, 2006
Messages
2,507
Location
The Bay Area, CA
TON of hours playing Falcomist. Still ***** me pretty bad -_-.

Been ***** by silent spectre many a time.

Falcomist helped me get good though. Well... im still not good-good. but a lot better since last NCB.
 

Shmooguy

Smash Champion
Joined
Aug 20, 2002
Messages
2,011
Location
Irvine, CA (SoCal)
Short version, from beginning to end:

Played only at random tourneys until,

Danimals/DC/Pbody

Ken/Mana/Arash

punching bags at cal poly (probably the best training i've had in all honesty)

NeighborhoodP

MikeHAZE for 24 hours (probably 2nd best training I've had)

then riptide's happened

and i lost all the mikehaze training

and now im back to cal poly noobs/old adam skill-wise

maybe worse cuz i try less
 

HyugaRicdeau

Baller/Shot-caller
Joined
Jun 4, 2003
Messages
3,883
Location
Portland, OR
Slippi.gg
DRZ#283
Your days are numbered, "Sheridan." I suggest you enjoy your remaining time among the living.

I never had regular sparring partners, I always lived relatively far away from other smashers, back in the early days I'd drive an average of an hour to play 8 hours of smash every 1-2 weeks. But if anyone trained me it was DBR, mostly Germ/Zel/Bob$/King, and I definitely learned more about the game from them than anyone else, they are all awesome to smash with. I still remember the first DBR smashfest in Jan 2005 and even have a video of me from it haha.
 

NeighborhoodP

Smash Hero
Joined
Jul 24, 2006
Messages
8,199
Location
SoCal
play me for 24 hours

12 hours fox on sheik
12 hours marth on sheik

god i would orgasm

edit: f*ck you sheridan. that was to kira. and me marth and sheik obv
 

mikeHAZE

Smash Legend
Joined
Jan 20, 2006
Messages
11,004
Location
North Hollywood, CA
Short version, from beginning to end:

Played only at random tourneys until,

Danimals/DC/Pbody

Ken/Mana/Arash

punching bags at cal poly (probably the best training i've had in all honesty)

NeighborhoodP

MikeHAZE for 24 hours (probably 2nd best training I've had)

then riptide's happened

and i lost all the mikehaze training

and now im back to cal poly noobs/old adam skill-wise

maybe worse cuz i try less
yeah all we do now is play mario party 2
 

-Rei-

Saviour of PacWest
Joined
Oct 21, 2007
Messages
9,699
Location
Japan
let's see. i was first shown smash by aesis during class.
i was mostly shown the basics by leepuff and teba. boa gave me matchup advice.
i moved away.
i meet kira and zhu. i played with them a couple of times. i feel i get slightly better through all the ****.
 

choknater

Smash Obsessed
Joined
Dec 25, 2002
Messages
27,296
Location
Modesto, CA
NNID
choknater
i was always the best among my circle of friends
fortunately i always had that guy who was equal in my skill level

let's see...

MassChaos (has a 2002 acc here on smashboards xD we went to tg6 together)
lvl 9 CPU
Mick
Park
The3rdUnknown
HomeMadeWaffles

brawl:
Light
Chokolait
 

Shmooguy

Smash Champion
Joined
Aug 20, 2002
Messages
2,011
Location
Irvine, CA (SoCal)

araknophobik

Smash Master
Joined
Nov 1, 2005
Messages
3,305
Location
San Bernardino/pomona
umm luigi trained me, or rather ***** me. explains the odd play style
then when i moved to walnut and went to cpp i didn't have luigi to play with since he was at ucr
so i played with mike Y every so often, and knives/luigi in riverside
deepsocal training =]

p.s. embracethe12 i tried to train you at tournaments before i knew who you were lol i just remember you'd come up to me asking me for matchup advice
 

WhatIsFear

Smash Ace
Joined
May 26, 2005
Messages
509
i guess hugo helped me start out and gave me some advice

then triforce of power taught me how to up air

i was in a crew a loong time ago so i played with panda and thomas and knivez (like twice)

i played mike y a couple of times, and now a days i smash with p although not very often.

there are really not many ganons around ( especially in cali ), so i dont think my style was influenced by anyone else. never formally trained, but hugo and triforce helped start me down the advanced melee road.
 

Gishnak

Smash Ace
Joined
Mar 24, 2008
Messages
726
Location
San Luis Obispo
I remember, Lovage used to train me for hours. He'd just keep ****** me, but I'd keep playing until I got good. That was the beginning of our beautiful friendship...

Oh wait that never happened. I still suck at melee -.-
 

embracethe12

Smash Lord
Joined
Jan 2, 2008
Messages
1,263
Location
Moorpark
umm luigi trained me, or rather ***** me. explains the odd play style
then when i moved to walnut and went to cpp i didn't have luigi to play with since he was at ucr
so i played with mike Y every so often, and knives/luigi in riverside
deepsocal training =]

p.s. embracethe12 i tried to train you at tournaments before i knew who you were lol i just remember you'd come up to me asking me for matchup advice
lolz, i heard you made the BIGGEST deal outta that

i GUESS if you want credit even though we didn't play eachother (aka training)
yeah, you told me to dtilt more.
(1-2 matches isn't training, imo fabian)
 

araknophobik

Smash Master
Joined
Nov 1, 2005
Messages
3,305
Location
San Bernardino/pomona
haha well you always walked up to me after you were eliminated
had I known you were playing a tourny match I'd of given you advice on the spot
but you're right we never got to play even to this day
more shiek matchs plz I love the matchup
 

choknater

Smash Obsessed
Joined
Dec 25, 2002
Messages
27,296
Location
Modesto, CA
NNID
choknater
whenever i see araknaphobik post i can only think of all the times socal players have said 'fabian sucks' or something of that nature
 

Ultra Luigi

Smash Ace
Joined
Jul 30, 2004
Messages
660
Location
Murrieta, CA
I learned most of the stuff by attending tournaments and browsing through here. Some Luigi things I learned from a few people like ROFL, Kev$ and Gabe (watched him platform dash with Yoshi at MLG). As far as training, I trained on my own. Played my bro and his friends but they weren’t very good and they hated playing against me. Then I met Plan 9 and practiced with him sometimes, although I still got ***** by Falcons at tournaments. Most of the time it was just me playing on Brinstar practicing my wave dashing and spacing aerials and stuff.
 

JTB

Live for the applause
Premium
Joined
Nov 13, 2006
Messages
6,512
lolz, i heard you made the BIGGEST deal outta that

i GUESS if you want credit even though we didn't play eachother (aka training)
yeah, you told me to dtilt more.
(1-2 matches isn't training, imo fabian)
do not take fabians advice under any circumstance :(
 

embracethe12

Smash Lord
Joined
Jan 2, 2008
Messages
1,263
Location
Moorpark
lol that was a funny day cause i was doing really well.
that was the devry tourney and i had beaten 4 guys and lost to jtb.
i know what i did wrong and i'm pretty sure if we watched the matches you could see it too, i was moving around too much without a reason. like it's good to have mobility, but i was wasting a lot of it doing flashy **** and didn't even try to make an attempt at reading/spacing/crouchcanceling/playing right against a jiggly pufff.
i don't lose to jigglys anymore though, the match is just pathetic and too easy for sheik if played right.

earlier that day i beat psychomidget, (get ***** psycho, 10%-death on you with sheik in 1 combo.)
and i was pretty confident in my jiggs match up, johns aside, i lost to jtb.

if you want the truth fabian, the only reason why i asked you/even talked to you was cause i knew nobody in the smash community outside of replicate,tipZ,and festizzio.
i had remembered talking to you at shuffle and cut, and so i felt comfortable approaching and without having anything to say and having just lost a match. i decided i should pick "asking a question" as a conversation starter between you and me.

choose to believe it or not, it's the truth. the whole reason i approached you was to be less of a random and more apart of the community.

edit-
i hope someone understands this logic.
 
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