Improving your DDR skills

[para_afro]

yesteday i just beatin survior maxx on standard and i have never beatin it untill now. and did u know that on ddr extreme a flashing 10 footer is a 11-15 footer. and i know that survior maxx on heavy is 12 and challange its a 15 footer

[Noobus Kahn]

umm no its a 10 if it was a 12 konami would make it a 12, and everyone would know about it. if you want to know what a real 12 is or an 11 go get some stepmania files. 11+ is nearly impossible to do with feet

[AsianSensation]

I'm still stuck on 5-7 footers because some songs just have sequences that I'm not used to. Will playing over and over again help me because it doesn't seem like it would. I always try not to double step, but it throws me off. I also can't recognize patterns where I need to do crossover or some irregular step.

For example, let's say my right foot is on up, and my left foot on down. This sequence comes:

R L D R L D

Where the Left arrows are 8th notes. I figured that I would have to hit right arrow with left foot, left arrow with right, and down arrow with left foot. Then the rest is right left down.

[BizarreDDR]

I am also having trouble with songs like that. 6 and 7 footers. I am currently having the most problems with Afronova on standard (7 footer) I can get the begining down and the jump sequence. (RL,RD,RL,LD,RL,UD) But the next part makes me fail. with the 8th note steps mixed with quarter note steps. It's so friggin' hard. Can anyone gimme a tip on passing this and the end with the 8th notes?

[Slowpoke]

[Slowpoke]

[Noobus Kahn]

crossing over isn't always as accurate as double stepping. a lot of PA'ers i know double step to maximize their chances of getting the perfect (and the step), and trust me; if you can do well with double stepping no one should care (for awhile i used to be embarrassed that i couldn't cross over, and then i learned how, and now that im going for PA [perfect attack if you didn't know] i usually don't)

[Slowpoke]

Yes, but we're not talking about PA... we're talking about someone who's failing the song because of those sections.

[AsianSensation]

double stepping really isn't that bad?

[Noobus Kahn]

well if you have some friends like i do who only try to get you to cross over you might want to try to learn (just so you don't look like a noob to some people) but once you get good enough so that you're going for really good scores, i don't see any problem with double stepping if you can do it well

[Rybo123]

I'm just approaching the level of being able to PA pretty well, and I think that double stepping is ok, as long as you know when and when not to do it. On something like R&P, or Saints go marching in, or can't stop fallin in love speed mix, I almost never double step, but there are a few songs where double stepping can be beneficial such as healing vision angelic mix, or a few parts of sakura. the thing I've found is that if your going to double step, the best way to do it is not bring your feet off the pad much. never actually hit two steps in a row with the same foot by lifting the foot between the steps, figure out how to slide it across the pad.

[Rybo123]

I'm just approaching the level of being able to PA pretty well, and I think that double stepping is ok, as long as you know when and when not to do it. On something like R&P, or Saints go marching in, or can't stop fallin in love speed mix, I almost never double step, but there are a few songs where double stepping can be beneficial such as healing vision angelic mix, or a few parts of sakura. the thing I've found is that if your going to double step, the best way to do it is not bring your feet off the pad much. never actually hit two steps in a row with the same foot by lifting the foot between the steps, figure out how to slide it across the pad.

[Noobus Kahn]

i was feeling particularly cocky the other day so i did exotic ethnic without crossing (at all no part of the song) on heavy and i managed to get an aa so its very possible to be a good double stepper

[xerus]

I'm sort of a newbie here.. I've had a soft pad since late March early June, and I've been playing with that until now. I can do most heavy songs... (I can pass csfilsm and r&p on heavy with it) but for some reason, I absolutely suck in the arcade.

My pad has the arrows elevated off the pad instead of lower, and thats probably the problem. I find myself stepping on the areas just behind left and right, and since I do that my feet are slightly above the arrow and not actually on them... I end up getting almost all greats instead of perfects. After playing in the arcade for the first time since I got my mat, I was getting almost 200 greats compared to only 50 or so perfects, but by the end of the night I had around 100 of each.

Can anyone offer any advice about nailing perfects in the arcade? Or should I just keep throwing tokens in the machine until I can do it? =/

By the way, I use my soft pad for stepmania on my PC, I dont play any of the console versions.
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[PxDnAkumA]

not sure there's a trick really...sometimes I feel like I have to step a super small amount late to get a perfect....
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[A2P]

Um... question...

HOW THE F*CK DO YOU DO THE crossover on HV:AM!!??
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[PARANOiA290]

Thats not a crossover, that's a spin, but i usually just double step, double stepping brings me from a C to a B on HVAM on heavy, and anyways, it's hard to spin that quickly as u know it's like a 195 bpm song
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[marcuslycus]

Hi! Does anyone have tips for weird and crazy jumps? I can barely pass Afronova on Light because of those odd jumps all over the place. And sometimes I'll flub a song because of unexpected jumps...

I try to play on Standard, and can pass a fair amount of songs, but still having the problem with the jumps. 8th beats and triplets I'm getting very good at!
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[Quagmire4444]

opps wrong user