The Basics of Using a Fight Stick Tutorial w/gootecks (@gootecks) - Ultra Street Fighter 4

"i want you to imagine that you're a small baby daigo throwing out hadoukens in perfect silence well into the early morning"

"I'm not afraid of a man who has practiced a thousand kicks once, but I'm afraid of a man who has trained one kick a thousand times" Bruce Lee

There is one thing that Gootecks failed to mention that I'm just now learning as a new stick player: stick placement is important to getting accuracy down. I was doing the exercise he gives here of doing fireballs over and over in order to make sure I could get the motions down, but noticed sometimes one side I could execute 8-10 times consecutively while the other side I might do 3-5. It wasn't specific to one side either; if I could pull it off on the right side the left suffered and vice versa. I tried changing hand positions which just made it uncomfortable on my left hand and wrist trying to hold and move the stick in somewhat awkward positions. It wasn't until I adjusted the position of the controller in my lap that I started to get cleaner and cleaner inputs on both sides without gating (hitting the edges of the joystick opening). I actually had to sit it off center and rotated about 5 degrees to find a spot that's comfortable. It's probably going to be different from person to person and stick to stick but I figured I should share for some folks that are having an issue with accuracy.

I love how he emphasizes how quiet you should be with the joystick, even though he is slapping the shit out of the buttons.

Would love to see more stuff like this. I think it's important to form good habits early, but there is a lack of information like this within the community. Back to Basics. kudos

100 Hadoukens! 100 Shoryukens! Both Sides! 10km Dash!

I bought my first stick just yesterday, and I am so happy I found this video so early while I am still learning the basics. I made those left hand movements the whole day yesterday. This anchoring tip really makes a difference.

this fightstick goot camp helped alot

This is legitimately one of the most useful things I've ever watched for fighting games. Thank you.

I’m 8 years too late but man thank you, that stick holding tip alone changed my whole game up… it’s like my brain knew it all along how fast my hand adapted to the correct position, I can hit supers in old school fighters 3x easier now!

After two years of playing stick, the Japanese boy part just completely changed my execution. I'm SO much more precise because of those few sentences. Bless you Gootecks.

Still watching this +1 year later, very good practice guides for SF basics and fight stick training by gootecks here. Thank you again.

Doooooood, this is a great idea. Having just started using a stick myself, this is the best timing possible for you to come out with a video on this. The first part about hand positioning was incredibly valuable. Thanks a lot for doing this gootecks, and I hope you do more vids about this.

Gootecks, PhD I remember watching a video where he was talking about the importance of spacing and learning characters' "footsies" and a whole bunch of other stuff that I had NEVER considered. That was when I realized that I was lord scrubbington.

Thanks so much for the really detailed and down-to-earth tutorial! Trying to transition to a fightstick ever since I played a SFV machine at a convention. Really digging it so far!

2021 and this is actually hella helpful, thank you so much for making this video man!

It's so easy to get down on yourself for not picking up a skill instantly. Really glad I found this video, not only is it a great lesson but it's definitely the reassurance I needed that taking it slow and starting with absolute basics is okay!!

Gotta say thanks for this. Recently got a te fightstick and was horrible with it. After hearing what you said about planting your left hand down and using small movements to move the stick, I've been hitting my combos much more consistently. Great vid.

Thank you Gootecks! for this vid but next video can you help me learn the basics how to please a woman.

Thanks gootecks. Your PC processor analogy really put things into perspective for me. I find that when I drop combos during a match I get frustrated and lose confidence in my execution, which causes me to focus more on that and not making good reads and whatnot. After playing for so long I guess I've felt like I pretty much got all the basic stuff down and I never practice it, instead opting to work on more and more advanced techniques. I'm going to spend more time in training mode on basics just to sharpen my fundamentals.