Hi there USA.
I did this thread on the French ssb boards and it had quite a lot of success, so I guess it's worth a translation cus I'm a fame whoooooore (and/or a mad scientist.)
I've been studying reflexes in my bio lessons for a month now. It got really, really boring, so I decided I'd try to apply what I've noted to Smash to avoid sleeping.
For the super strict people out there, note that I will not use the scientific definition of a reflex in any of my advices, but the common sense definition.
The john for it : nervous signals go to the brain in our case, but I will still use the characteristics of neural fibers that are used in actual reflexes, which means my advices can be applied. The lesson wasn't on the brain itself, but on the nerves.
The advices don't all come from the lessons I had, btw. I've got some random bases thanks to friends/teachers/TV/etc, which can be used.
Ok so I'm done with the boring intro, let's learn cool stuff now.
Your reaction time is something you always wish was better when you play a fighting game. Indeed, by thinking faster, you give yourself more time to analyze and resolve any situation, which means you'd autopilot less and win more.
There are actually ways to make your reaction time faster.
In your brain, everything is coded into electrical signals. When you encounter a new situation, the brain defines a path that the signal is going to take. If you ever encounter the same situation, the path would be ready for the signal to travel ; it means the information will run better and it will get better every time a signal uses that path. If your brain detects that this path is used often enough, it will find shortcuts and make it even faster.
That's what make wifi players and offline players different. The situations we encounter are different, the way to resolve them is different too. There is no better one ; we just play different games.
What I want to say, is that even if you apply every single one of the following advices and get top tier reflexes but never practice and never get experience, you will still suck. The title of the thread was just a way to get readers tbh =V
Your brain is an organ. It has needs. It doesn't need many fibers/proteins like most organs, though. It just needs a LOT of water and a LOT of sugar. Take a glass of water, and eat a little cereal bar. Tadaa, you're going to be playing for hours now.
Nerves now. Nerves are just a bunch of nervous fibers jointed together. Those fibers are the support of the electronic signal. There are cells that go around them. (idk their english name, here's how it looks like : http://mlaurent1.free.fr/laurensep/pag_1/pag_2/journaux/images/schema_p8300.jpg ) which reduces the number of steps the signal must take. Think Pikachu's neutral B. Now, make it go straight in the air instead of bouncing around wasting its time. It would go twice as fast wouldn't it ? Well it's the same in nerves. The more of it you have of these cells, the faster the signals travel. Some nerves are a hundred times slower than some others because of not having this kind of cells around them.
The point of this ? These cells are made of fat. If you are on a diet, do not be dumb. Eating less fat is always wise, eating no fat is just completely dumb. That also applies to sports and work... The human body needs fat, it wouldn't be able to eat it otherwise.
Try to play THIS GAME right now. Then try at 1am. Then try at noon. You will never get consistent results because you are going to get tired some day. The exhaustion is an important factor in being fast. Your brain will try to wake up, and it will focus on about everything. Which means you won't focus on your match.
Always sleep before tournaments. Have a long, confortable, stressless night.
This is also the reason why taking an aspirin before/during a tournament could do no bad to you. Your brain will be fighting the heat of the venue (100 humans + 20 TVs = heat), the frustration of the competition, the exhaustion of being used for hours non-stop, etc... Make it rest.
The human brain can treat a great number of informations at the same time. But only a dozen on a conscious level. You want to focus on the match. There are more than a way to do so.
-Take drugs. I would not advice that. Lain does that I heard. Being high make you unable to focus on anything beside what you're looking at, so I guess it would make you undisturbable. But you'd just ruin both your health and your money.
-Listen to music while playing. Not every TV has got good sound in tournaments so if you keep needing the sounds of the game to have a good timing, you may hate yourself someday. Just don't listen to something that would make you lose your focus : try song in a language you don't understand, or even better, a lyricless song (transe/classic/video game music are the most common). This also works to an extent : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB7u6Y_25-w
-Try playing with pad shaking off. Your pad shakes when you hit, when you shield a hit or when you get hit. Most people when they shield wait for the pad to shake to react OoS because reflexes are faster for the skin than for the ear/the eye. They are focusing only on that, and not on what they see, which means they can't react if you land without attacking and grab them. By turning off the shaking, you will focus on what you see, and react to those dumb mindgames. Turning them off MAY mess up your DI a bit. Try for yourself and see what works best for you.
That's everything I've got.
Thanks to my science teacher for being boring, and Jux for the aspirin part. Plus my own brain for not being tired when it's translating stuffz at 1 am.
I hope you enjoyed the read.
Moreover, I hope some of you will have some tips too.
I did this thread on the French ssb boards and it had quite a lot of success, so I guess it's worth a translation cus I'm a fame whoooooore (and/or a mad scientist.)
I've been studying reflexes in my bio lessons for a month now. It got really, really boring, so I decided I'd try to apply what I've noted to Smash to avoid sleeping.
For the super strict people out there, note that I will not use the scientific definition of a reflex in any of my advices, but the common sense definition.
The john for it : nervous signals go to the brain in our case, but I will still use the characteristics of neural fibers that are used in actual reflexes, which means my advices can be applied. The lesson wasn't on the brain itself, but on the nerves.
The advices don't all come from the lessons I had, btw. I've got some random bases thanks to friends/teachers/TV/etc, which can be used.
Ok so I'm done with the boring intro, let's learn cool stuff now.
Your reaction time is something you always wish was better when you play a fighting game. Indeed, by thinking faster, you give yourself more time to analyze and resolve any situation, which means you'd autopilot less and win more.
There are actually ways to make your reaction time faster.
In your brain, everything is coded into electrical signals. When you encounter a new situation, the brain defines a path that the signal is going to take. If you ever encounter the same situation, the path would be ready for the signal to travel ; it means the information will run better and it will get better every time a signal uses that path. If your brain detects that this path is used often enough, it will find shortcuts and make it even faster.
That's what make wifi players and offline players different. The situations we encounter are different, the way to resolve them is different too. There is no better one ; we just play different games.
What I want to say, is that even if you apply every single one of the following advices and get top tier reflexes but never practice and never get experience, you will still suck. The title of the thread was just a way to get readers tbh =V
Your brain is an organ. It has needs. It doesn't need many fibers/proteins like most organs, though. It just needs a LOT of water and a LOT of sugar. Take a glass of water, and eat a little cereal bar. Tadaa, you're going to be playing for hours now.
Nerves now. Nerves are just a bunch of nervous fibers jointed together. Those fibers are the support of the electronic signal. There are cells that go around them. (idk their english name, here's how it looks like : http://mlaurent1.free.fr/laurensep/pag_1/pag_2/journaux/images/schema_p8300.jpg ) which reduces the number of steps the signal must take. Think Pikachu's neutral B. Now, make it go straight in the air instead of bouncing around wasting its time. It would go twice as fast wouldn't it ? Well it's the same in nerves. The more of it you have of these cells, the faster the signals travel. Some nerves are a hundred times slower than some others because of not having this kind of cells around them.
The point of this ? These cells are made of fat. If you are on a diet, do not be dumb. Eating less fat is always wise, eating no fat is just completely dumb. That also applies to sports and work... The human body needs fat, it wouldn't be able to eat it otherwise.
Try to play THIS GAME right now. Then try at 1am. Then try at noon. You will never get consistent results because you are going to get tired some day. The exhaustion is an important factor in being fast. Your brain will try to wake up, and it will focus on about everything. Which means you won't focus on your match.
Always sleep before tournaments. Have a long, confortable, stressless night.
This is also the reason why taking an aspirin before/during a tournament could do no bad to you. Your brain will be fighting the heat of the venue (100 humans + 20 TVs = heat), the frustration of the competition, the exhaustion of being used for hours non-stop, etc... Make it rest.
The human brain can treat a great number of informations at the same time. But only a dozen on a conscious level. You want to focus on the match. There are more than a way to do so.
-Take drugs. I would not advice that. Lain does that I heard. Being high make you unable to focus on anything beside what you're looking at, so I guess it would make you undisturbable. But you'd just ruin both your health and your money.
-Listen to music while playing. Not every TV has got good sound in tournaments so if you keep needing the sounds of the game to have a good timing, you may hate yourself someday. Just don't listen to something that would make you lose your focus : try song in a language you don't understand, or even better, a lyricless song (transe/classic/video game music are the most common). This also works to an extent : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB7u6Y_25-w
-Try playing with pad shaking off. Your pad shakes when you hit, when you shield a hit or when you get hit. Most people when they shield wait for the pad to shake to react OoS because reflexes are faster for the skin than for the ear/the eye. They are focusing only on that, and not on what they see, which means they can't react if you land without attacking and grab them. By turning off the shaking, you will focus on what you see, and react to those dumb mindgames. Turning them off MAY mess up your DI a bit. Try for yourself and see what works best for you.
That's everything I've got.
Thanks to my science teacher for being boring, and Jux for the aspirin part. Plus my own brain for not being tired when it's translating stuffz at 1 am.
I hope you enjoyed the read.
Moreover, I hope some of you will have some tips too.
