Today I played a semi-short but hard fought match as Protoss against a Terran on scrap station.  I did a little bit of warp prism harass and met his bio ball with immortals. I pulled back to regroup after winning an initial fight but then I was overwhelmed as his expansion and macro overtook my army.  I gged, he said gg back, and I exited.  After the match, he messaged me: "very good game man, those prism drops were awesome." this started a conversation where we both watched the replay at the same time and told eachother what we were thinking during each pivotal moment in the fight. 
 
I never had a practice partner before, but now I want to get as many as possible. I can't describe how much more useful this was than any video, stream, replay watching, or forum reading. 
 
So, if you have a hard fought match, message the other person.  Tell them about their play.  See if they want to rematch.  Like most of the non-korean pros say when asked how they can compete with koreans, the best way they improve is by playing others of the same or better skill, and talking with those people about the games.

Wow that's quite the cool happenstance. I normally did nothing but ladder games with myself or with a friend, but rarely ever against each-other. I should try it more.

If anyone here is platinum, I'm willing to be there practice partner, I already have a few, but I wouldn't mind having more :D
 
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I don't usually go by scheduled times, but I've been practicing as much as possible since I'm entering a tournament thats coming up. School takes up alot of my time but if I'm online and available, hit me up for some matches.

I was playing a zerg once and he spine crawler cheesed me.
After the match he messaged me and said he could teach me how to do his amazing spine crawler cheese build too, it works 100% of the time, no need to thank him.
 
We started a second match, I 6 pooled. I won.

" I was playing a zerg once and he spine crawler cheesed me. After the match he messaged me and said he could teach me how to do his amazing spine crawler cheese build too, it works 100% of the time, no need to thank him.  We started a second match, I 6 pooled. I won. "

" @ThatFrood said:

" I was playing a zerg once and he spine crawler cheesed me. After the match he messaged me and said he could teach me how to do his amazing spine crawler cheese build too, it works 100% of the time, no need to thank him.  We started a second match, I 6 pooled. I won. "

Cheese>cheese? "

" @HaltIamReptar said:

" @ThatFrood said:

" I was playing a zerg once and he spine crawler cheesed me. After the match he messaged me and said he could teach me how to do his amazing spine crawler cheese build too, it works 100% of the time, no need to thank him.  We started a second match, I 6 pooled. I won. "

Cheese>cheese? "

Don't bring Provolone to a Muenster fight. "

another cool thing about just a custom practice game is that there's really no downside to trying something crazy.  on ladder i'm worried about deviating from the usual and losing points, but with my buddy i'll go triple nuke just for the hell of it.
 
you start to look at the game in a different way.  once i brought my laptop over, and after each game we watched it right there in the same room.  we pretty much did what you mentioned.  i definitely learned a ton about zerg, and learned about some weaknesses in my play

" @HaltIamReptar: Pretty much. It's a 6 pool + 1-2 spine crawlers. It's dumb. "

" I was playing a zerg once and he spine crawler cheesed me. After the match he messaged me and said he could teach me how to do his amazing spine crawler cheese build too, it works 100% of the time, no need to thank him.  We started a second match, I 6 pooled. I won. "