Improving your DDR skills

Marik · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:33 am Post subject:

As what most people, they buy DDr for ps2 or X box and start practicing.
Althogh i started out on the home pad ddr,you should put your diffecult level on arcade 8. It will be a lot harder, but when you go to the are acade, the level at the machine will be a level 5. When it is harder for you at home, the easyer the setting will be at the arcade. That is one way you can better.

To improve more, you must practice. If you are out of engery at the end of the song or the stage, you can take a 5 minute break. The more you are relexed, the more energy you will have to go faster and hit the arrows faster.

If you really think that your all good and want to try level 10 songs, you might want to try to at least AA a good level 9 foot song like Break Down or So Deep. Once you can AA or AAA those songs, Im sure that you will be a good 10 footer.

For Beginers, Try a good song on light like trip machine survier.
The steps will be a a little hard because it is a 6 footer song on light. When my friend wanted to try DDR and do heavy, i would only let him go on heavy if he could do Max 300 on standerd.

You see, the only way you can improve is to practice.

NOW GO AA BREAK DOWN!!!!

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PÄÅÄ¡Å©Ä«Åâ¢ â¶â · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jul 2005

I've been playing for about 3 months now. I can get a high A/AA on many 7/8s and some 9s.
I just recently starting going to arcades and I can't play at all there. I can AA Jet World heavy most of the time at home, but when I try to play it at an arcade, I screw up and lose about 15 seconds into the song because it syas I keep missing the arrows even though I know I'm hitting them and at the right time.
Any help on how to play on a metal pad? Because I just can't do it =\

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nport · Basic Member Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Location: new jersey

I found out by switching how you steps makes your feet hurt less. I will agree that when you play on your toes you are more agile, but for the fast half steps useing the side of your foot or your heel does help. This is also personal experience, but everyone is different
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Solar-Wind · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Location: rumson, nj

Does anyone have any personal experience going from an Ignition 2.0 pad at home to playing on an arcade machine? I find it frustratingly harder in the arcades.... (although ive only played outside of home 3 times, but plan to do it much more now) maybe its just stamina, and that i'm not used to playing with shoes on, but it kinda sucks being able to A songs like Exotic Ethnic at home and just barely make my way through an 8 footer in the arcade.... any tips from anyone who has had this same experience? what should I be doing at home to help me better myself for arcade play? I know the best way would be to get a metal pad with lowered arrows to start, but that's out of the question right now.
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Griesus · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject:

Reading these last few posts have made me flabbergasted.

You do worse on the arcade pads?! I cannot believe that. I dunno about the guys above me, but i have a poopy konami pad that's plastic at me house. I can hardly do 9's. But when I go to the arcade I get at least 300 combo on matsuri japan. I guess what I'm asking is....

What are you doing at your home that makes the songs easier?

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NSMH · Trick Member Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: San Diego

If you play at the arcade more often, you get used to it. Trust me. Plus it makes home feel like nothing difficult at all.
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trogdor_609 · Basic Member Joined: 19 Jun 2005

yes, im quite confused with my dilemma(sp?)

ive been playing for about 5 months now, but i cant go for more than a half hour playing on an arcade machine or on the ps2 version at my house. currently i can do almost all songs up to a 9 and get a decent score on them, but i can only go for like 3 songs that are that high of a difficulty.

does anyone know what i can do to improve my stamina?

XMaxX · Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:54 pm Post subject:

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Wermo · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Location: Hamilton ON

I don't think this has been stated in just these words so here goes:

Songs like Rhythm and Police, True, Tsugaru and any other song with gallops. I used to have trouble reading it first then when I could do it easily with the controller I still couldn't do it with my feet (granted I have a poopy pad). Even practicing for a week on True slowed down could I get it even reasonably well.

Until I dreamt of the following (and yes it's probably too obvious for some but that's generally how my brain works). Now I've done True and Tsugaru's gallops without any problem. R&P is still a little fast for me at this point but I see it'll come eventually.

The following is really a "How to read gallops question". If you see LRRUUDDLLR... simply take it as a LR jump then a RU jump then a UD jump (ad infinitum) but instead of landing with both feet at each jump you make sure you land with one foot first.

I hope this answers anyone who wonders "How to gallop?" which was usually answered with "Noob, practice!"

Beyondâ¶âInsanity · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Location: New Castle, DE

Man, it feels really weird that I was able to pass 300, MU, and PS on heavy in the arcade before I got my first arcade AA's O_O And, I mean, I was really trying for them, too. But, for some reason, now I can't pass those 10-footers anymore, but I get AA's a LOT more frequently. I wonder if anyone else has experienced something like this, gaining a lot of stamina, then most of it just completely switching to PA.
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Silverpony · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

I usually play at home on my Red Octane Ignition pad, and I found it's spoiled me for the arcade, too. The RO pad is so amazingly sensitive. I can just tap my feet and the arrows register. I don't have to really stomp, unlike the arcade machines.

Plus, the arcade ones seem to have bigger pads- or, at least, I find I have to work a lot harder, put my feet much further onto the arrows, to make sure they register. And, as someone else mentioned, doing it in shoes means a lot more effort, too.

I notice that playing a song such as Love Love Sugar, which I can do at home over and over for like an hour, tires me out after just a game or two at the arcade.

I wish "Speed Over Beethoven" were on the PS2 version and not just in the arcade.

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SupraDDR30 · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

I first learned in the arcade so its kinda like home for me, I mean i have a bad home pad, but i mean i just love the arcade expierence more, getting pumped to go there, getting there warming up and doing well, and if people watch me i do better

Matt
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