Every time that I talk to Joe Monday (Author of Gief’s Gym and much more), I gain new profound ideas. It’s through conversation that we are able to share our perspective. It’s beneficial to Learn of new perspectives in anything we do in life. The notes below detail many of the major points that we talk about. This conversation had an emphasis on making better choices. Everything we do in life can be boil down to making choices, and this is very true with Street Fighter V.
Show Notes
- What’s new in Gief’s Gym 2nd Edition?
- Supplementals
- Character specific
- Season 2 Changes are taken into consideration
- FAQs
- Such as: Do I need to learn the game with Ryu
- Supplementals
- Nerfs vs Buffs
- Is Capcom going about their updates the right way?
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Season 2.5 Patch
- Should Capcom be nerfing the top tier characters?
- Should they buff the low tiers?
- Did Capcom NEED to add new moves to Gief and Cammy right now?
Making better Reads/Choices
- How do you make better reads/choices?
- Some Tips include:
- Watch more of your matches
- Look for when you took damage
- Look for when you gave up the opportunity to deal damage
- Look for Match up specific, situations.
- Was there something you couldn’t get around?
- Think about and look for a way to do I deal with it?
- Was there something you couldn’t get around?
- Learn The mechanics of the game AND the characters
- You can’t make the right choices if you don’t know the rules and your options.
- Some Tips include:
Unlearning what you know: Deprogramming
- Discussing the deprogramming Bad habits
- My Bad Habit:
- I’m currently working on deprogramming the habit of Anti-Air Jabbing.
- It’s a habit I developed early on and because of it, I leave a lot of damage or advantages on the table.
- Deprogramming sometimes takes longer than a few days to achieve.
- Bad Habits must be worked on actively, rather than trying to stack new knowledge on top of it.
- Unlearning a bad habit is will help you avoid making bad choices.
- Bad habits can become a blind spot and inhibit your ability to make the proper choices to win.
- Bad habits are choices and in any fighting game, every choice is crucial.
- Slowly removing the urge to do “that thing”.
- My Bad Habit:
Tilting: Emotional Decision making
- How does it affect decision making
- Different Types of Tilt
- Tilting is a broad term and it’s not a topic I feel has been explored enough in the FGC.
- How do you stop tilting?
- Not enough people have expressed effective solutions on how to not tilt.
- Quick Tips:
- let go of expectations
- “A perfect can happen at any moment”
- always be aware of this
- Adapt between sets
- Between each set contemplate what your options are in the situations you were in the last match.
- Ask yourself High-Quality Questions
- Examples:
- How did I get myself in that situation
- how can I prevent that?
- How can I change now to fix that?
- What did my opponent do to put me in that situation?
- Examples:
- Different Types of Tilt
The Importance of Reflection
- Let go of past events
- Don’t judge the events just analyze them
- Centering yourself can help you win more matches
- Be aware of the thoughts going on in your mind
- Your thoughts control your emotions, and your emotions control your actions.
- Be aware of the thoughts going on in your mind
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