Silly Kyle
Smash Champion
I have always considered watching videos an extremely important part in getting better in Super Smash Bros.
Living in a state where I don’t get that much practice against top level players, I needed to find a way to improve without necessarily playing the game.
Through watching videos of myself and others, I learned more about my habits, picked up other tricks from Peach players, gained an understanding of unfamiliar matchups, and I benefited from this new knowledge just by watching videos.
On top of this, I found a couple of personal techniques that I believe pushed me over the edge to become a higher level player.
The first technique is what I call subconscious learning.
Basically I would watch a video and rather than make note of every single thing that happened in the match, I would just sit back and absorb what was going on.
I first noticed the benefits of this technique when I was first getting better in Melee. Back in the summer of 2009 when I decided to play competitively with Princess Peach in both games, I found my new Smash Idol, Armada. His Peach was on a whole other level than the rest. I instantly fell in love and watched tons of his videos in an attempt to emulate his style.
In the course of a couple of months, I found my Peach doing things I never thought I could do before. Not only that, but I was doing some of these things without thinking about it. The things I learned by just watching videos (some of the same ones more than once) were trickling into my gameplay. Take note on the fact that during this time I wasn’t watching videos with the intention of understanding why Armada did the things he did, but just to know how to do things he did.
For the subsequent months of my improvement, I began to combine this method with a more logical approach to watching video by trying to understand the deeper things occurring in matches from both players, the baiting, conditioning, and other facets of combat. I noticed considerable improvement in both Melee and Brawl.
When I went to WHOBO 3, I had the opportunity to sit down with Razmakazi and watch videos my last night when I stayed at Sync’s place. Rich Brown, Logic, Ally, Coney, Inui, Shugo, Aposl, and Tyrant were all playing doubles so Raz and I decided to watch some recent videos of his Peach vs. MVD. We ended up watching his whole set and I was happy to say we had a very good session discussing what was going on in the match. We even watched a little bit of Illmatic vs. Shlike before we decided to go and play some doubles ourselves.
I thought it was extremely beneficial for both Raz and I when we dissected his matches, paused at different parts and brainstormed different ways to handle a situation, and giving general tips about techniques/matchups.
So I made this thread to stress the importance of watching videos. But I also wanted to continue what Raz and I were doing.
I don’t know if there is a better website for this kind of thing, but I found this website:
http://www.watchitoo.com
This website allows for people to meet together online and watch the same video. I could link us to youtube videos of different Peach players and we could all discuss it together in one place!
I want to host weekly meetings with top Peach players, but others are welcome of course, to discuss videos together and try to learn new things and improve altogether.
After these weekly meetings, I would post the main points of our discussion for others to learn from.
Maybe we could post it in Nicole's new thread:
Critical analytical extra-good video matchup thread
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=301381
What do you guys think??
<3
Living in a state where I don’t get that much practice against top level players, I needed to find a way to improve without necessarily playing the game.
Through watching videos of myself and others, I learned more about my habits, picked up other tricks from Peach players, gained an understanding of unfamiliar matchups, and I benefited from this new knowledge just by watching videos.
On top of this, I found a couple of personal techniques that I believe pushed me over the edge to become a higher level player.
The first technique is what I call subconscious learning.
Basically I would watch a video and rather than make note of every single thing that happened in the match, I would just sit back and absorb what was going on.
I first noticed the benefits of this technique when I was first getting better in Melee. Back in the summer of 2009 when I decided to play competitively with Princess Peach in both games, I found my new Smash Idol, Armada. His Peach was on a whole other level than the rest. I instantly fell in love and watched tons of his videos in an attempt to emulate his style.
In the course of a couple of months, I found my Peach doing things I never thought I could do before. Not only that, but I was doing some of these things without thinking about it. The things I learned by just watching videos (some of the same ones more than once) were trickling into my gameplay. Take note on the fact that during this time I wasn’t watching videos with the intention of understanding why Armada did the things he did, but just to know how to do things he did.
For the subsequent months of my improvement, I began to combine this method with a more logical approach to watching video by trying to understand the deeper things occurring in matches from both players, the baiting, conditioning, and other facets of combat. I noticed considerable improvement in both Melee and Brawl.
When I went to WHOBO 3, I had the opportunity to sit down with Razmakazi and watch videos my last night when I stayed at Sync’s place. Rich Brown, Logic, Ally, Coney, Inui, Shugo, Aposl, and Tyrant were all playing doubles so Raz and I decided to watch some recent videos of his Peach vs. MVD. We ended up watching his whole set and I was happy to say we had a very good session discussing what was going on in the match. We even watched a little bit of Illmatic vs. Shlike before we decided to go and play some doubles ourselves.
I thought it was extremely beneficial for both Raz and I when we dissected his matches, paused at different parts and brainstormed different ways to handle a situation, and giving general tips about techniques/matchups.
So I made this thread to stress the importance of watching videos. But I also wanted to continue what Raz and I were doing.
I don’t know if there is a better website for this kind of thing, but I found this website:
http://www.watchitoo.com
This website allows for people to meet together online and watch the same video. I could link us to youtube videos of different Peach players and we could all discuss it together in one place!
I want to host weekly meetings with top Peach players, but others are welcome of course, to discuss videos together and try to learn new things and improve altogether.
After these weekly meetings, I would post the main points of our discussion for others to learn from.
Maybe we could post it in Nicole's new thread:
Critical analytical extra-good video matchup thread
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=301381
What do you guys think??
<3
