This is the first video in a series I'm calling "3-Minute Fundamentals", where I cover aspects of competitive Street Fighter play in the span of (approx.) 3 minutes time.

Hit-confirming is the act of giving your mind enough time to react to a situation. Instead of going for an unsafe combo and hoping it'll connect, ideally you would leave "mental padding" in the form of quick normal attacks that can be linked together, which will give the mind the time to process whether your attacks are connecting or being blocked. If the attacks land, you can then go into a damaging combo, and if the attacks are blocked, you aren't forced to guess with a highly punishable maneuver. 
  
  

This is the first video in a series I'm calling "3-Minute Fundamentals", where I cover aspects of competitive Street Fighter play in the span of (approx.) 3 minutes time.

Hit-confirming is the act of giving your mind enough time to react to a situation. Instead of going for an unsafe combo and hoping it'll connect, ideally you would leave "mental padding" in the form of quick normal attacks that can be linked together, which will give the mind the time to process whether your attacks are connecting or being blocked. If the attacks land, you can then go into a damaging combo, and if the attacks are blocked, you aren't forced to guess with a highly punishable maneuver. 
  
  

That's a really handy tutorial. Hit confirming is easily one of my biggest faults and I get punished way too often for being careless.
Keep 'em up!

Top quality as usual Ultima.

Awesome tutorial! I don't know how much it helps me as a Dhalsim player, but I understand the concept now, and it was a really well produced video!

Nice video.

Awesome video as always. I look forward to the rest in this series (I hope there's one on footsies)

" Awesome video as always. I look forward to the rest in this series (I hope there's one on footsies) "

bad ass

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Awesome video as always. I look forward to the rest in this series (I hope there's one on footsies) "

That one's gonna take a bit of work, it's sort of hard to demonstrate footsies on a dummy in training mode. "

Another great video.

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Awesome video as always. I look forward to the rest in this series (I hope there's one on footsies) "

That one's gonna take a bit of work, it's sort of hard to demonstrate footsies on a dummy in training mode. "

" @lordofultima said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Awesome video as always. I look forward to the rest in this series (I hope there's one on footsies) "

That one's gonna take a bit of work, it's sort of hard to demonstrate footsies on a dummy in training mode. "

I'm sure that a bunch of people on here would be willing  to help with that. "

" @Jeffsekai said:

" @lordofultima said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" Awesome video as always. I look forward to the rest in this series (I hope there's one on footsies) "

That one's gonna take a bit of work, it's sort of hard to demonstrate footsies on a dummy in training mode. "

I'm sure that a bunch of people on here would be willing  to help with that. "

By flying to my house to play? I record with the PC version, and PC online is ass. Also would be annoying to do tutorials outside of training mode. "

" Top quality as usual Ultima. "

Really good tutorial, as expected. Keep it up. I'm sure you'll get some paid work making these sorta things for DVDs or websites at some point.

Good stuff ultima. If you wanna do something that you can't do with a dummy I'm willing to help if you can record from xbox. Also I'm sure you could just film a few random matches and get bits out of those as examples for whatever you're talking about. (footsies, baiting, etc.)

Thank you so much, practicing atm. 
 
@AniMoney said:

" Good stuff ultima. If you wanna do something that you can't do with a dummy I'm willing to help if you can record from xbox. Also I'm sure you could just film a few random matches and get bits out of those as examples for whatever you're talking about. (footsies, baiting, etc.) "

" Good stuff ultima. If you wanna do something that you can't do with a dummy I'm willing to help if you can record from xbox. Also I'm sure you could just film a few random matches and get bits out of those as examples for whatever you're talking about. (footsies, baiting, etc.) "

" @AniMoney said:

" Good stuff ultima. If you wanna do something that you can't do with a dummy I'm willing to help if you can record from xbox. Also I'm sure you could just film a few random matches and get bits out of those as examples for whatever you're talking about. (footsies, baiting, etc.) "

Don't have the ability to record HD footage on 360. "

" @lordofultima said:

" @AniMoney said:

" Good stuff ultima. If you wanna do something that you can't do with a dummy I'm willing to help if you can record from xbox. Also I'm sure you could just film a few random matches and get bits out of those as examples for whatever you're talking about. (footsies, baiting, etc.) "

Don't have the ability to record HD footage on 360. "

HD isn't a huge deal for me anyways. Whatever though, I'm sure you'll figure something out. "

I am so fucking subscibed to this shit! Also great work on the presentation, looks and sounds great. Awesome job Lordofultima :D

Very good stuff. Should help me with my other characters. Balrog by nature hit confirms when he starts a combo so not particularly useful for my main. This is good stuff! Thanks a lot!

Good video and I must say it does not apply to those who only know jump kick / sweep.   \\(-_-)//   WIN!

Thanks for the tutorial.  Its very informative.