Season's Beatings just got even more hype

Greetings,

As if they weren't even hype enough Seasons Beating's confirmed some really cool events they are doing plus one of my personal favorite players is coming over to the US for the first time. Uryo is coming out. I would love to get some casual matches in with him if possible. We shall see.

Anyways, this weekend is Xanadu Games local monthly tournament. I'm going to step up and bring out Ibuki and Sakura. My only issue right now is a lack of live experience plus they are playing on PS3's which is a pain, there is a definite difference between the two systems. So I'm heading out there tonight to get some casual practice and see if I can get my combos and execution to work right on the PS3 platform.

Peace out, will let you know how the tournament went.

Season's Beatings

So, I've been working hard at Ibuki for a while now. Things are starting to workout, I still need to work on my execution but it's getting better gradually. I signed up for Season's Beatings in October. This is will be my first major in a very long time, but I look forward to it a lot. I'm taking a friend of mine along for the ride since they have never been to one of these events. It will be a good road trip, there will be a good number of international level players there including Mike Ross, Gootecks and Poongko. 

Since I'm only entering one event, AE I'm going to help out and volunteer at the event as well. Also in the area on Oct 1st is the Xanadu Games local tournament as well. It will give some good practice of being on the stage with Ibuki. I wish to god her U1 didn't suck so much, you can only nail people with that on reversal. None of the setups I have are safe at all. Fortunately I've gotten decent at super jump canceling her U2.

On a side note, after witnessing the power of Cammy I think I will use her as a secondary, I'll start to cultivate her. She has high offense, very fast with great pokes. She does a lot of damage. She has a little more health than Ibuki, some of her links are a little more forgiving than Ibuki's 1 frame ones. Also a nice thing is she actually has a good srk that doesn't require meter to make useful.

Ibuki

So I was playing around this weekend and someone suggested to me that I take a look at Ibuki if I like a speedy aggressive character. Lo and behold I really like Ibuki, shes very similar to her Third Strike version.  She can push into your space easily and good lord the mixups. I found a few people on xbl to help me work with her, so pretty much I'm going to commit to using Ibuki only for the next couple months. No more hoping between characters.

Reason for Sakura

Here are some clips of probably one of the best Sakura's I have ever seen. These are a few clips from Godsgarden 4. This is where you have a tournament of the best Street Fighter 4 players in all of Japan, Singapore and Korea.

Take a look at the damage she can get off some B&B combos.

You have solid B&B combos into great damage, mixup potential, zoning. I'm going to enjoy beating people down with Sakura. Going to be in the lab tonight working on the basics and maybe get some online matches.

Sakura

So after some long session with Makoto the other night, I think I'm going to take up Sakura. She has great mixups, solid pokes, good damaging combos and based less off of the guessing game than Makoto is. I really like playing Makoto but I think for more or less the style I think is more my speed Sakura will have to take over for Makoto. I'll still work on her, and keep working on her from time to time and learn the matchups to cover those bad ones that Sakura has. But I feel that Makoto at the time is a really advanced character that I'm not ready for. 

After seeing Uryo's work at Godsgarden the other week it makes me feel like I can make Sakura work for me. I'm not jumping on the Sakura bandwagon simply because of that, but I think overall the style will fit me better.

I saw a really good Gouken the other night and it was pretty nasty.