this is not a place for free cnc, you may ask specific questions and use replays to give examples, but thats it. you want cnc on a replay, you can use the replay thread.

I would suggest attempting to rework the balance and flow before attempting to improve on anything else, a specific example of a problem with balance is after uke's run has finished. Your best bet with balance issues is messing around with foot/knee positions from what I've experienced, and using your hands can work in some cases (e.g. a spinning kick where you use your hand for extra momentum) but don't rely on them too much, as they can make a spar look messy.

I never really focus on being realistic, but more rather stylish. With jumps, from my own experience, experimenting with shoulder ankle and glute movements in specific positions can give you a shittonne of momentum to perform jumps and spins, which makes everything look more flashy, a perfect position for a jump was your tori early into the game, but jumping isn't exactly required in a spar.

As for flow, just try and make everything go together, personally, I look at most spars I do every few frames to see if everything's flowing together correctly, but I would also suggest looking how each joint follows through when relaxed and just go from there (There are some cases where you can kind of get away with sharp twists)

If you need me to explain more/give examples of your stuff or other people's stuff that I think flows well with images just ask.

Sknock, you and whoever you were sparring need to work on your flow, movement, and realism. It seems as if your whole body is stiff when running and punching. there was also an unrealistic roll in there. Apply for RSO so we may be able to give you proper help.


17April hey buddy, it seems when i do my twists, i try to land in a lopsided horse stance, i don't know, i can't really explain it. It'll have to be show to you in game at some time. You just wont be able to achieve perfect balance or position when landing your twist, so your body will have to be tweaked a bit during/after the twist.

Hope this helped.

In the student application thread on this board

You came to the right place, i believe we can help you out with your issues, could you post a replay for an example, also feel free to apply for RSO if you want.

17april your twist looks good so far, you just need to follow through with it, don't hold all at the end of the twist, i may be able to show you an example sometime later on.

Ale455 Okay, you need to work on your flow and realism, as well as your moving and jumping needs help. You seem to twitch quite a bit when you move around, i suggest you work on multiplayer sparring and get better at that. Self sparring is really hard to do, focusing on both tori is such a hassle. maybe later on you can work on it.

For a punch, what i usually do is have my elbow in a contracted position, and the punching arm's pec is relaxing, then when i twist my body, the arm will swing faster. I only have my arm contracted a couple of frames before i hold the elbow and contract the pec, this way the arm will extend using it's force that was created with the initial swing, then it's just where on the body i'm aiming at, and whether my arm is out enough for a solid punch, if it's still contracted, i'll extend/relax it. I'd have to go in game to show how I punch, i guess everyone has thier own way of doing those kinds of things.

Hope this helped!

A little late now but isn't there something like this thread already? I remember back then there was one, maybe when we got official RSO never made a thread for it...

From what I know of, there are tutorials, but no threads where members can ask on how to improve on specific things on improving their style and developing off of what they have right now.

As for being stiff in the air, I love to play around with holding/relaxing different joints in order to make my movement look smooth. Being stiff can be fixed by relaxing a few joints here and there, but you don't want to relax too much as it makes the spar look extremely floppy, your best bet is to simply see what joints are causing you to look stiff and attempt to find out what you need to do in order to fix that in later spars.

From what I've seen from that spar, you contract your elbows way too much, just play around with them a lot more and experiment with relaxing and holding and extending your elbows to generate momentum. Shoulder work is also a great thing, as you can generate a stupid amount of momentum by raising and lowering them, but you want to keep in mind that if you do it wrong, it can break the flow and look bad, I like to check how the shoulder movement flows by checking how they move while relaxed before lowering/raising shoulders to generate momentum.

I meant as in a thread where the player asks another to spar and learn/teach.
But since this exists I'll use it.