TakedaZX
Well-Known Member
Preface
It's hard for me to talk about this topic. The reason why lies within my lack of proper usage words and being less than knowledgeable on what I speak, but I wish to learn... regardless, enough about that.
This past weekend, I lived out my dream. Along with some friends of mine, we ventured out to Philly and competed at NEC XIII, my first major ever. I simply wanted to find out what it was all about and if I stood a chance against anyone... in reality... No I didn't. I played a lot of the well-known pros like Mr. Wah, Allan Paris, Blackburrychaos, and others. They completely bodied me and after being salty for getting knocked out of the tournament on my only two matches, I realized it might just not be for me...
But then I talked to Rikuto and after bringing up my problem with solidifying a character of choice, he said to me...
"Find one move, it could be anything, a grab, a strike, or just a hold animation. Take that move then build everything up around that." -Rikuto #DatWisdom
At first I thought, well yea that could work. I just thought it'd still take me some time though since that move originally was Hayate's low slide kick from his wind dash in Dead or Alive 4. So I gave it some time and decided on my move, and that my character would be Eliot and the move that pulled my attention... well... i'm not telling you!
That same night, I played BBoyDragon who is an extremely well rounded player with ridiculous amounts of "guaranteed" set ups. His mind games were out of this world, and by playing him, he taught me that I must force my own mind games on my opponent and nullify their own to stay in control. That became clearer and clearer, but I still need to work at it.
The next day I bodied a few people in casuals and I also held my own against his Hitomi finally. He still landed multiple "guaranteed" PB's on me. The deal is, they're only guaranteed when he does them. Lmao! Great matches with him.
Main Subject
So now... the real subject is... where can I go from here. There's multiple variables in the way of me taking competitive gaming seriously, and those variables are: College, Money, and my Mother not agreeing with my love for the game.
How do you deal with this all? Have some of you dropped the ideas of college, and gotten a some what manageable job to rely on, or just scrapping by? I mean I don't want to put anyone on blast but I want to know, how do YOU tie it into your life?
My mom would never agree to me doing this and I mean I feel that she'd love to hold over my head that she doesn't have to let me stay living with her if I don't want to listen which indeed would suck but I don't know if that would be enough deter me from wanting to play the game... So I don't know where to go with this... any advice for a such a situation... or just insight in general?