freestyling out of style??

xx|FliPstyLe657|xx · Basic Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

ok, i've been obsessed with ddr for the past year, and my goal was to learn how to freestyle after being able to do 9 or 10 foot songs. I've just recently started to freestyle, and now i'm hearing that freestyling is out of style, and now people are trying to triple A or quadruple A songs like legend of max or sakura. I'm just wondering if that's the way everyone else is playing ddr, or are there others who still freestyle?
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~.:Kitty:.~ · Trick Member Joined: 15 May 2003

FS out of style! lol thats funny

nope its not true, maybe you just got haters where you live that dont like Freestylers. but yes we Freestylers are still here

and we're not going nowhere! keep doing what you do best ^_~ so FS if you want to, dont listen to other people they dont know what there talking about. so keep it up ^_~ FS LIVES ON!!!! tee hee hee

ArchDuke · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 12:35 pm Post subject:

In Jonesboro, freestyle has lost some. I'm the town's main freestyler, and recently I've fallen victim to Save Data on my memory cards. I see those bad scores, and think "freestyle Spin the Disc, or get that AAA on Nori Nori Nori?" PA has taken some of my FS skill away, but Monday i started back, I'm getting in shape for a nashville tourney in 2 weeks.

To answer your question, No, freestyle isnt out of style. If noone else does it in your town, start doing it more. ppl will catch on.
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Darkjolt1 · Trick Member Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Location: Darkness

ya you have point well i don't reallt freestyle but im trying to so i guess later i'll be good but now i suck and everyone is like hmm..ok
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Optimus · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 10:05 pm Post subject:

read my topic "Why is everyone tech?" on this chit-chat page, and you'll see first-hand what most people here think of FS.
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ver314 · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Albuquerque Nm

giving us a link to the thread also helps

http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=68864&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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pnoicrazy · Trick Member Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Location: So cal

theres rely not that much freestyling u can do now...like the matrix walks and knee hand or anything drop are very old

...and then theres dancing 4 real on the thing..which i would think make me look stupid

..well the arcade i go there is still sum freestyle mostly

...Its still gunna b strong along side perfect attack...but yea now every1 wants difficulty now
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001 MadStepz · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject:

ddr freestyle is not out of style or dead....its just over the years the number of freestylers have decreased and the new mixes of ddr lately are more directed toward people who mainly PA

xx|FliPstyLe657|xx · Basic Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

yea....i don't see any freestylers around where i live, and there r rarely tournamets in a 50 mile radius. i guess it was just some rumor that i picked up somewhere along the line. i guess i became concerned when some of my freinds who ddr said they were getting bored of it. but i think that's mainly because for the past year the local arcade had 7th mix which broke, and a bowling alley just got extreme which also had a messed up pad (damn newbies). so now we just gotta wait a couple months for 7th mix to come out for ps2. my friends and i are the only people i've ever seen freestyle, and i'm definatly gonna keep at it.
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LET ME SHOW YOU THEM · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:00 am Post subject:

It depends on where you're at as well..I lived in PA god land Seattle for a while..and the freestyle scene up there is existant, but you never hear about it...now i'm in southern oregon (where just PLAYING on heavy is a big thing)..and it's right in between the PA heavy northwest (eugene, portland and seattle) and fs land of california, hence where i live both ways are practiced by people..i know some that do both, but the best ones are the people who concentrate on one or the other...me personally, i can't freestyle if my life depended on it...so i PA (i find it more challenging and occupying anyways)
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jamk · Trick Member Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: Anaheim

jamus_se · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 12:12 am Post subject:

The Max series really didn't bode well for freestylers... DDR Max is plainly missing songs (not just those to freestyle with), Max 2 is just freakishly loaded with hard songs and tricky steps; Extreme is cool, but most of the new inclusions are from other Bemani series, most of them not really made for freestyling at all. Gone are the days of smooth songs like Cafe or Petit Love (other good FS songs slipped my mind right now) and irrecoverably replaced with V Oni, A Oni, Sync Oni, Xenon... and ultimately the Max brothers and the new Paranoia Survivors.

Of course, add that to the fact that *most* of the freestylers nowadays are trying to live the old dreams and use the same routines that was performed back in 1998 without any thought of innovations or improvements. Put two and two together, and you'd understand why most people would call freestyling dead, or at least like to call it that way.

The best thing to do now, if you're still inclined to keep going, is to work on innovative routines instead of trying to imitate old stuff without thinking about it. Check out the freestyling FAQs here at ddrfreak; most advices that were true are still true now, and let those be your inspirations instead of thinking about how you can rip off Butterfly routines you saw from videos 5 years ago (now that they bring back the dead for Extreme).
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Romantic Boy · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 2:43 am Post subject: Hmmmm

Hmmm where I play DDR and practice Freetsyling is NOT dead one bit. Truly something to marvel at is it not? Freestyling is not dead because the girl that's one of the best freestylers out there as it is (Tsinay Butterfly) works at the arcade that I go to and she FS's all the time. A few friends of mine too. SGT. LTR I love his style of FS. Tsinay Butterfly as well. As for myself I'm still working on my freestyle. I have tons of energy to burn and not a better thing to do than freestyle to let out that wanted energy?
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