Improving your DDR skills

Kevontay · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Location: Nova Scotia

I believe what we see Damien doing at the end of Uber rave is called "Future". Flat foot and heel toe are different, but yeah. Heel toe is my favorite.

PJ POWER · Basic Member Joined: 28 Apr 2007

i'm a toe guy

i tried to flat foot but it's hard after playing so long on toes, what about spins? like after i do a spin i get off balance or i step on the wrong arrow, any suggestions? besides practice practice practice lol

DarthWhammy(Angelic Mix) · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject:

I'm a toe person too. But after a while, you get foot cramps...I can do flat foot, but most of my favorite songs are too fast for me to do so...
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PJ POWER · Basic Member Joined: 28 Apr 2007

how long do you play for cuz i don't get foot cramps

Agent · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Location: Kansas

It would all depend on his feet, really. I have genetic foot, knee, and back problems and due to it my feet hurt for a long time when I played ITG and DDR. My feet don't hurt as much now, probably just due to the mat I'm using as my old one was much stiffer. I also started flat footing, and it makes fast arrows much easier for me. Sometimes my feet do cramp, though. I'll bend them the wrong way and they'll kind of pinch so I can't move them and have to force them back with my hands.

Tenchi50 · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:

i cant PA Max 300 unless I flatfoot.

And konami triplets piss me off
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__ · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2002

stop stepping early and quicker than the song chart needs.

also, stop stepping hard.

keep those in mind, and you will increase both PA and endurance.

Moonbeam Funk · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:38 am Post subject:

I need to do some hardcore PA work, but my endurance is doggy'. Suggestions?

I read my arrows mid-screen. Should I read at the top so I can PA better?
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DarthWhammy(Angelic Mix) · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject:

Try PAing easy songs first. Then work your way up to the hard ones.
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__ · Trick Member Joined: 28 Mar 2002

PAing is as much an art as it is a science.

Try this:

Dark, flat.

The Supervisor · Trick Member Joined: 02 Dec 2004

I can quad star 7s and 8s, get under 10 ex on 9s and 10s, but it's just not enough. For as long as I have been playing (over 3 years), I should be ablet to quad star 10s and double star 12s and 13s....and on DDR I can still barely pass PSMO =\. Me and mdawg have been playing about = as long, and here is a video of me and him. (he's on the left, me on the right)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XyKArIOY_pI

Shouldn't I be something like that by now? Just....how can I improve at this point?

Tyrgannus · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

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Stumbleine · Basic Member Joined: 25 Sep 2007

What is the best way to improve stamina. Because the only reason I can't beat Max 300 (Super-Max-Me-Mix) on challenge is because I get super tired about half way through.
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MaxxOverload · Trick Member Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Location: Melvindale, MI

Those all sound very good, practicing is the most important element that can make you better. What made me much better was trying to keep my legs very loose and not tight, because from what I have learned, keeping your legs loose can help you nail cross-overs easier, and you can move your legs faster that way.
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Xanthros · Trick Member Joined: 12 Aug 2006

To be honest the only way that I think you can improve DDR stamina is to play more. Maybe crazy short sprints or just jackhammering your legs would help, but I know that DDR stamina has pretty much NOTHING to do with running or biking stamina. Back when I ran cross country and track I was struggling to pass hard 9s, Cartoon Heroes and Captain Jack just killed me. I haven't run in a couple years and I am certainly in worse shape, but I can no bar quite a few 11s now. And I do recommend stretching before playing DDR if you're going to be doing 9s and up seriously.

Senefelder · Basic Member Joined: 23 Feb 2008

Hi, I'm newbie here!

Well, you've been talking about your steps..

It's true that you need to have some warm up, if you want to play hard

I usually warm up by "healing vision" heavy, it's truly help me to prevent my feet from crams!
But though, it's up to you, choose the easy one, but not slow for yourself
You won;t get that crams

OT: I've been playing this since Oct last year, n now I am trying for MAX 300 Heavy, God! Like You, half way passed

yukihime · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2008 Location: Philly, PA

I can't find the author of what is for me right now (2 weeks into playing) but the best advice I've read so far is to read the arrows, like from the bottom or the middle to see what's coming and where.

I'm really trying to train myself to not just stare at the top and try to hit the arrows when they get there, but to try to read mid-way. Got my first AA (on beginner) on Tsugaru today doing that. So, thank you so much to the person who posted that advice!

Stamina ... I'm working on it! I can't always play when I want or as long as I want (roomie loathes ddr and she's right under me, yay?), but I'm trying to do at least an hour in training mode, then depending on which game, either 3 3 song game mode or 2 5 song game mode. Stamina is a biggie and that seems to be helping me.

Crossovers? EEEEEP, I totally get messed up with those, so that's something I need to work on seriously, that and NOT going back to the middle of the pad. I end up not knowing where I am on the darn pad and wonder why I'm getting "boo" and "almost" until I look down and see that I'm like 2 inches away from where I should be

Lastly, how do I stop picking my feet up too much. I know I do, I think it's a throwback to aerobics, especially on some of the faster songs (Butterfly Upswing, that crazy wonderful Beethoven song for instance). I instinctively want to like, hop and stuff and end up picking my feet up too much. Definitely does not work - tried Tsugaru on basic (training mode) and things like LF or RB at the same time trip me up completely. Which they probably would anyway, but ... I feel like I'm making it even harder on myself.

So keeping my feet very low so I can hit the arrows faster AND finding a way to know where I am on the pad without constantly moving back to the middle (I'm such a noob, I know) after 3 weeks now seem to be my 2 biggest challenges.

I don't feel like I'm going to progress further than beginner unless I figure those 2 things out.
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jesusfr3ak4evr · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:45 am Post subject: