Well, I am in a rut. We all fall into one once in a while, and unfortunately I am in one again. After the set against the dude that posted vids on youtube (Spanish Hitman), I am sucking ass. I am missing links like a mother fucker, I am reacting extremely slow, and I am missing extremely easy punish opportunites.
 
For instance, tonight against Cast for Ron's beastly Chun, he whiffed an ultra. I had full ultra. Instead of hitting him with full ultra, what did my hands decide to do? Hit him with a weak ass fierce srk. What the fuck?
 
I need advice from my SF buddies on how to get out of this rut. I am tired of sweating balls against everybody I play, no matter their skill level.
 
Please don't post bullshit here. I want to know what you guys do on the real to break out of the ruts we see every once in a while, no sarcastic bullshit.
 
Thank you, much appreciated.

Just sounds like you need to take a little break. Take your mind off of street fighter for awhile then come back later.

" Well, I am in a rut. We all fall into one once in a while, and unfortunately I am in one again. After the set against the dude that posted vids on youtube (Spanish Hitman), I am sucking ass. I am missing links like a mother fucker, I am reacting extremely slow, and I am missing extremely easy punish opportunites.  For instance, tonight against Cast for Ron's beastly Chun, he whiffed an ultra. I had full ultra. Instead of hitting him with full ultra, what did my hands decide to do? Hit him with a weak ass fierce srk. What the fuck?  I need advice from my SF buddies on how to get out of this rut. I am tired of sweating balls against everybody I play, no matter their skill level.  Please don't post bullshit here. I want to know what you guys do on the real to break out of the ruts we see every once in a while, no sarcastic bullshit.  Thank you, much appreciated. "

Stang, shutup. You are one of the best on this forum! So, everybody has an off day!

I don't know what a "fierce srk", but it sounds pretty sweet.

Take a break dude.  Stay away from the game for a few days, get something else in your library to distract ya and come back to it later.  Lot of athletes so to speak need to get away till things click for them.  Forcing it usually doesn't work, just my 2c

Oh dude, I've hit my jab (x3) > Somersault Kick combo maybe five times in the past month, dude. It is embarrassing, but I am blaming it on my controllers broken unresponsiveness.

" Just sounds like you need to take a little break. Take your mind off of street fighter for awhile then come back later. "

Maybe you shouldn't play every match like your life depends on it. The game came with more then just Ken, focus on another character for a while then go back to it. 

Yeah if you don't want to stop playing the game (which is usually how I am) switching it up can act as a refresher. Besides everyone has a main and an alt so you'll probably just be diversifying your skillset with SFIV.
 
Don't worry about it man, my post made me look like a condescending douche, so we're even haha.

Sounds like you're taking the whole thing too seriously.  Just play the game to play it and you'll find that you perform better.

" @Stang: Don't have an alt? WELL NOW YOU WILL.  By the way I wouldn't suggest insulting Ryu since we probably have some Daigo wannabe's running around in these forums haha. "

" @RsistncE: Surprisngly there are very few Ryu's here! I am not complaining, 85% of my G1 matches are against absolutely horrible Ryu's, so I feel blessed that my Giant Bomb friends pick different characters. 
 

Take a break from the game. It sounds like you're mentaly fatigued. 1 or 2 days break will do. Play some Modern Warefare. I've been switching it up between MW2 some nights, then some SFIV, then a little 2d MMO I like then something else and I must say I'm better at SFIV then I ever have been. I'm hitting combos more then I used to and reading opponents so much better and zoning them how I want to most of the time. I played 10 games with Canned earlier tonite and although it was a little laggier then when I play against you or Ultima I still managed to do all my combos and played like I've never played. I'm sure next week I'll go back to loosing to bullshit but such is SFIV and really all games or activites. Ups and downs.
 
@Napalm:
Do c.Jab, c.Jab, c.MPxxFK. It does more damage then simple jab x3.

" Take a break from the game. It sounds like you're mentaly fatigued. 1 or 2 days break will do. Play some Modern Warefare. I've been switching it up between MW2 some nights, then some SFIV, then a little 2d MMO I like then something else and I must say I'm better at SFIV then I ever have been. I'm hitting combos more then I used to and reading opponents so much better and zoning them how I want to most of the time. I played 10 games with Canned earlier tonite and although it was a little laggier then when I play against you or Ultima I still managed to do all my combos and played like I've never played. I'm sure next week I'll go back to loosing to bullshit but such is SFIV and really all games or activites. Ups and downs.
 
@Napalm: Do c.Jab, c.Jab, c.MPxxFK. It does more damage then simple jab x3. "

" @Stang said:

" Well, I am in a rut. We all fall into one once in a while, and unfortunately I am in one again. After the set against the dude that posted vids on youtube (Spanish Hitman), I am sucking ass. I am missing links like a mother fucker, I am reacting extremely slow, and I am missing extremely easy punish opportunites.  For instance, tonight against Cast for Ron's beastly Chun, he whiffed an ultra. I had full ultra. Instead of hitting him with full ultra, what did my hands decide to do? Hit him with a weak ass fierce srk. What the fuck?  I need advice from my SF buddies on how to get out of this rut. I am tired of sweating balls against everybody I play, no matter their skill level.  Please don't post bullshit here. I want to know what you guys do on the real to break out of the ruts we see every once in a while, no sarcastic bullshit.  Thank you, much appreciated. "

I go on the hardest mode on arcade and beat it.  I go back online, only do matches with full connection, and use my best character and go all out.  That gets me out of those loosing funks. "

1.Don't even look at Ken for a bit, pick someone else.
 
2. Don't play with random mashers
 
3. Have a side game going ( i.e. Tekken 6) 
 
4. Yell at more people on the forums
 
5. Do what SpecialBuddy said goto your arcades and fight people there find a local tournament. Maybe the people there will be able to help/give you the competition you want.

" @demontium said:

" @Stang said:

" Well, I am in a rut. We all fall into one once in a while, and unfortunately I am in one again. After the set against the dude that posted vids on youtube (Spanish Hitman), I am sucking ass. I am missing links like a mother fucker, I am reacting extremely slow, and I am missing extremely easy punish opportunites.  For instance, tonight against Cast for Ron's beastly Chun, he whiffed an ultra. I had full ultra. Instead of hitting him with full ultra, what did my hands decide to do? Hit him with a weak ass fierce srk. What the fuck?  I need advice from my SF buddies on how to get out of this rut. I am tired of sweating balls against everybody I play, no matter their skill level.  Please don't post bullshit here. I want to know what you guys do on the real to break out of the ruts we see every once in a while, no sarcastic bullshit.  Thank you, much appreciated. "

I go on the hardest mode on arcade and beat it.  I go back online, only do matches with full connection, and use my best character and go all out.  That gets me out of those loosing funks. "

Don't see how this will help, and I also don't see how taking a break will do anything personally. When I take a break I come back and play much worse. The only advice I can give is to just brush it off, keep playing and if you do something dumb don't beat yourself over the head for it. Whenever I get into "depression mode" in Street Fighter it is basically the worst thing in the world, since it makes me play worse. So avoid that at all costs. If you listen to Valle's speech, you're a moron. The whole notion of getting salty and angry at your opponent for beating you, angry at yourself for not performing well, is not a good idea from my experience. "

try watching videos of great ken players...(ed ma maybe?) you might get some new ideas that way

Don't suck ass.

" @Scooper said:

" Take a break from the game. It sounds like you're mentaly fatigued. 1 or 2 days break will do. Play some Modern Warefare. I've been switching it up between MW2 some nights, then some SFIV, then a little 2d MMO I like then something else and I must say I'm better at SFIV then I ever have been. I'm hitting combos more then I used to and reading opponents so much better and zoning them how I want to most of the time. I played 10 games with Canned earlier tonite and although it was a little laggier then when I play against you or Ultima I still managed to do all my combos and played like I've never played. I'm sure next week I'll go back to loosing to bullshit but such is SFIV and really all games or activites. Ups and downs.
 
@Napalm: Do c.Jab, c.Jab, c.MPxxFK. It does more damage then simple jab x3. "

I'll save that training for when I get my new FightPad, since with my broken one now, I don't have actually have a MP button, haha. "

Well taking a break would help the mental part of it, but you'll come back rusty, I think.
 
Really I bet you just need to not think about it so much and put it out of your mind. Play it autonomically, I'm sure you're good enough. Put on some music you like, forget about your win/loss record while you go at it, and just play for playing's sake, instead of maxing out on every match. Once you feel like you're back in the swing of things, I bet you'll be hitting all your links and not falling for silly tricks before you even realize it.

  Dude I'm sort of in the same place you are. Except my rut is just cause I'm bored of Balrog. Take a break or mess around with other characters.   

Practise.

   I would also STRONGLY suggest that you start going to tournaments. Find someones house, some arcade, some back ally, I don't care. Just find a place to play with real people. They are your best advise cause they can tell you how to improve on the fly. "

Thanks for all the advice guys. I just got Tekken today from Amazon, I think I will fuck around with that for a while and only play SF to get through this tourny. I may give Ken a break and try somebody else, who knows. Maybe give Rog or Dhalsim a try, can't be much worse with them then I am with Ken currently.

"Dhalsim "

No, no.  It's okay, Stang.  You followed the Ken flowchart perfectly.

" No, no.  It's okay, Stang.  You followed the Ken flowchart perfectly. "

" @jakob187: Even at my worst I am sure you are free to me, so go ahead.
 
@Napalm: Thanks man. If you are around tomorrow, we should play a few. You may get to see the world premiere of my beast Dhalsim! By beast, I mean completely garbage of course. "

" @Napalm: Alright, no problem. Next time I see you screwing around with SF I will shoot you an invite. "