Monday, June 22, 2009

Who are you? (fguime in xbox Live)

I am by no means an excellent player, not even good, but I would say I’m a fair player. And I’m not saying that, instead is Capcom’s G2-C ranking that says so. I have played Street Fighter II games since I was in middle school, and enjoyed immensely. When I was growing up, we had actual training sessions where we got together with a couple of friends and instead of beating each other up in Street Fighter II, we trained. We practice “combos” when they didn’t exists by that name, and perfected techniques such as throws (yes throws). I was more of a console player and always be (specially now that I’m grown up and have a family, but hey, everybody is entitled to a hobby, and this happened to be mine J

In the end I used to be very very good SFII player back in the day, now that SFIV was out, I decided to pick it up and give it a try. It’s fun, it’s entertaining and most of all, it felt fairly familiar (not like the EX version of SF). I’ll keep playing and learning as far as I can without sacrificing family and/or personal hygiene, and hopefully share what I learned back on this site. If you want help, by all means drop me a line. And if you want to fight, I’ll see you online (fguime) in the xbox network.

Ha-Do-Ken!

Ok, so welcome to my blog. Here I am trying to distill the spirit of the Street Fighter (more specifically the Street Fighter IV Game made by Capcom), how I go about training and learning beyond the “moves”, and in general some helpful tidbids of fighting techniques. Now, the first thing is that if you come here for me to make you a great fighter, look somewhere else. I’m barely a G2-C player in the tournament system.

(if you don’t know what a G2-C player ranking is, then you’re better off going back to SFIV, getting an online Xbox Live (or PS3 equivalent) account, play for around fifty hours, and then come back. It’s not that you won’t find anything valuable here, but it seems almost a rite of passage that you have to train a lot…and I mean a lot… before starting to apply the stuff on these pages.).

Having said that, I’ll blog as much as I can from the techniques I learned, and as I learn more and refine techniques, I’ll post them in here for the viewing pleasure of all concerned.