Improving your DDR skills

[JackFrost]

One method of improving PA that I've found is to use DWI or Stepmania and set your timings to one score harder. For example, with the adjusted timings if you step with arcade good accuracy, you get a boo, if you step with arcade great accuracy you only get goods. if you leave it on this setting and dance as usual, you'll find your timing vastly improved in no time

[OnIMaxX]

how do you hit all the arrows fast enough on max 300 without lifting your feet high cuz i always try to but end up getting my feet stuck on the bolts

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[Phatax3l]

How about not lifting your legs high? ever tried that? you lose alot of energy just doing that. Try to pace yourself when you doing songs like that, runs on v (oni) and grad. cyber , try to lead forward and step flat footed.

[[Team Rival] M1lesTeg]

I think I need to gain efficiency in leg movement, but I don't think it's a matter of lifting my legs too high, nor is it going "flat-footed" as you say, as I'm on the balls of my toes most of the time.

I think the actual horizantal movement from one arrow to the other is what kills me. I've been trying to, to a certain extent, get slides down, but am failing miserably.
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[OnIMaxX]

dude i think you totally missed my question. first off, bar raping is no solution, second, i'm not lifting my feet high hence the fact that i said they were hitting the bolts

[Matrix DDR]

Right now I am working on Drop Out - Heavy, and I can get through most of the song, its just those continuous sets of doubles that are really starting to get irritating. Any suggestions?
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[JSON Road]

for the second set of doubles on drop out keep your bottom foot in the same place and just cross your right foot over. For second thing of runs make sure you start out with your left foot forward.

Does anybody have any PA tips? I'll have to try that stepmania thing someone said. I've AA'ed like 50 heavy things but most of them were just barely and i still can't be consistant enough to AAA anything on light. If anybody has any tips i'd be happy. Thank ye
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[Phatax3l]

[harry potter]

alright man sry. jese.
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[maniacstepper]

I always play wearing black baggy windpants, a plain white shirt, and a gray fleece pullover. i always wear the same thing in the spring, summer, winter, fall, it doesn't matter. also, i wear 5 lb. weights on each ankle and wear heavy shoes. after an hour of playing weighted, i play like the wind.

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[IIIsmurfIII]

Afronova isn't really that hard but I fall off the pad alot.....
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[moojoe]

this might have been said before, but it doesnt hurt to say it again cause of how important it actually is...
dont be afraid to turn your body from the screen.
let me explain
for a while now, ive been stuck on level 7s and 8s, like for a few months ive been stuck.
but i was once watching someone play level 9s and i noticed how they turned theyre body, i started doing this, and now my ability shot up and i can pass many 9 footers now!
what i mean is,
before i turned, if there were 3 8th note steps such as left, down, right, i would hit them in the order of, left foot, right foot, then quickly pull up and hit with right foot again, now that i turn my body, i hit them with left foot, right foot, rotate my body to the right, and hit with my right foot, and just by doing that, just by willing to move my body from the screen, shot my ability up a lot!
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[theDDRevolution]

I think it's very important to always push yourself to the next harder song. I learned that last month when I just kept playing the same songs. I noticed that I stopped improving, but as soon as I began to push myself to the next level I noticed alot of improvement.

[theDDRevolution]

[jayrq]

proceed with caution. very long.

first, see if u can find the step chart for the song u want to triple here at ddr freak. then, look it over and study it carefully. keep in mind however, some song's aren't perfectly translated into a step chart (max 300 for example denotes the 4 steps before the first freeze as quarters when step editors in console games and simulators denote these as 1/12 notes). but anyway, its just to get any idea of how much shuffle, cross and spin a song has. just ignore that part if u want to sight read ur way into a triple a, though i don't reccomend it! a better way may be to look it over in training mode in a home version, or in edit/sync record on stepmania. once you've got a good knowledge of the steps (u dont have ta memorize, just get a good idea) play it at an extremely low speed. then u can get into rhythm and know which arrows to hit with your left foot and which to hit with your right (this is important, especially in a song like exotic ethnic. at one stream, if u start on your left, you'll end up having to shuffle back into rhythm whereas if u start on your right, you can cross/hip twist right into the stream. or option two, you can go into that stream and alternate feet anyway forcing you to turn ur back to the screen if u can do that, you have surpassed me because i still have to look 75 percent of the time ). j/k. after that, play at an extremely fast speed, but don't expect to get very far (or u can if ur really good, but x5 is just crazy). just do it to fool your eyes, which in turn will fool your brain. do that a couple times. then play at a lower speed, but still faster than your normal. then skip down to your normal playing speed (x1, x1.5, x2) and let your legs do the rest. i find it a great technique for getting beginners into harder difficulties. now if ur problem isn't reading, then its probably timing. which is easily solved by playing the song itself at a higher rate and working on PA. unfortunately, i dont know which home versions (if any) let u play the song itself at a higher rate. i do know that stepmania offers to play songs at a higer rate and i suggest u take full advantage of that!

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if all else fails, make your own steps to whatever song, and just make it down down down down, until u reach the end of the song
or if you're really lazy, down
boom, triple a.

[legendofmaxx2]

thx dude, even if it's not for me, it's sorta help in a way
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