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DDR went well today

I'm in that weird spot where I KNOW I'm doing very good, about as good as I've ever done, but I'm still worried about my physical condition and my stamina enough that it negates the scores I'm getting. I feel like I should be playing at a lower difficulty for 2-3 hours than higher for the better part of 1 hour, but just making myself get up and play for that long is hard.

Kinda fucked that 22 november is coming up soon again. I'm well into a year of being back into playing seriously/regularly and it feels like I've come a long way (completely reworking my form from scratch, learning doubles, accuracy WAY up) and also not come far at all (stamina feels same or worse, leg speed a wash albeit playing much different).

It's a weird game.

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IMO for DDR, you get a lot from longer and lower sessions if you're sufficiently far in the difficulty curve just because it's such a game about maintaining form rather than blowing your proverbial energy load in a short while just to "do" harder things. But it's great to hear you're doing SO damn well after the past year and finding your discoveries, even if it feels like certain aspects are lacking (I fucking FEEL you on stamina lmao, but it's also changed how I play sessions entirely too, for the better I think.)

Unrequested advice below.

Might as well give it a shot; maybe aim for 1.5-2 hours instead of the 2-3 hours at first. Just get yourself going at that marathon pace. It'll also give you more time to think about technique and how you're moving.

Semi aside: After watching the DDR tournament this weekend, I came to that realization when I realized I could tell who's likely winning by watching the players without seeing the scores because they were moving too much or "dragging" their body because they were reacting (e.g. reading too fast or too new to the song), and there's just so little room for not always being ready that I'd value it even more importantly than I did before in DDR.

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@plumpan

I need to look into getting pure CS style marathon mode set up or something, I've just been running arcade software and the gaps between songs and sets kinda suck if you REALLY want to push endurance. But there's also for sure a point where I get too tired to keep form and I don't know how far I wanna push past that point even if I can keep playing. A lot of my form has been about not crouching forward, trying to keep my back straight and staying more on the front of my feet and what not; it's easy to be more flat footed when I get worn out.

It's a style about as far removed from tournament play as possible, but there's still a big difference between when you know what's coming and when your body is already in the right position vs just trying to react and get your foot over there. Obvious example is on doubles charts that do a double crossover (L D R L D R) from one end of the pad to the other and you can't get your body to swing fast enough. Even when you see it coming sometimes you just can't get the momentum right.

Oddly I feel like DDR is pretty lenient at least in terms of how much you can miss and still pass a song nowadays, even if the timing itself is a lot stricter.

And thank you. I think if I could play enough to drop some weight I'd be a lot closer, I think that's the main thing that is bugging me. I wanna be able to do healing vision angelic mix with the spins and backwards parts and that kind of leg speed feels so near yet so far.

EDIT: I would not make some of the same choices as he does in that video but you get the gist.

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