Trick bar use...

PxDnAkumA · Trick Member Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Paducah KY

hahaha I dont mind being put down as long as it's clever.

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xpacmanx · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

I dont think its the wrong thing to do, you paid for the game so you can play it whatever way you are more comftorable.
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Rancidfish · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:

I use the bar whenever it helps me, and I don't have a problem with other people doing the same. I saw a girl playing 5-footers and holding the bar with one hand, and that was fine by me. I, on the other hand, have found no reason to touch the bar other than for the last 13 steps of MAX 300. Fine by me, too.

Whatever works for you.
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eryk · Trick Member Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Toronto

OMFG SHE MUST A NEWBIE OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dancing Dan · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

Mart · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject:

Uhh... care to tell me what you did with that missing "M", mister?
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PureBlue · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject:

The girl uses the bar. Cry about it.

I'm sure you had to bar rape at least once. Unless your mr/miss perfect who OMGF!!!11 PASSED MAX300 WITH A AAA ON 8X BOOOST HIDDEN DARK FREEZ OFF!!11.

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Ryudori · Trick Member Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Location: New Jersey

This has been said a million times, but I'll say it anyway: Whatever works for you. Is it kinda funny watching somebody bar rape a Beginner/Light song? Yes. Don't put them down for it though, they're still new. How many of you put your feet back in the middle after each step when you first started? I know I did but I got better and don't need to do that anymore...they'll grow out of it. So their dollar, their playing style.
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Johancrowind · Trick Member Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Location: Wayne NE

Well some people just dont have the balance I dont sure I can beat a song but I will have a bad back ache I can beat alot of the 9's and I can only beat 2 tens with a bar (ja know not much exp here) but still the bar is fine if you dont use it dont rag on us for using it half the time the trick bar is freakin so close to the ground its hard to do anything I have my own bar at home I almost never use it at the arcade cause its so darn low

Arc · Basic Member Joined: 04 Oct 2004

I use it only if i'm off balance or am going to fall

b! · Trick Member Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: Newark, DE

Stromski · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject:

I'm the kinda person that only uses it once I get tired during a max song (half way through usually) or when it's a complicated part of a song; I usually grab the bar with one hand during the 7

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Neko Kitty · Trick Member Joined: 11 Jul 2004

You know, I didn't even discover the bar until a few weeks ago (I started out at home on XBox

), but I must say, I do find it helpful on occassion.

Main reason being I'm short and wear tall shoes all the time- when the shoes come off, my pants cover my heels and cause me to slip sometimes... use of the bar helps me keep from slipping while I've got on my "parachute-material" pants.

godofgamecube45 · Trick Member Joined: 25 Sep 2003

The bar is ok to use on 9 and 10 footers but when I see like a person doin kick the can on standard and holding on to the bar like there life depeneded on it then it looks kinda bad The only non 10 footer i some times need the bar for is Cartoon heros

Arc · Basic Member Joined: 04 Oct 2004

Cartoon Heroes on heavy is a pain in my buttocks...same with Rhythm and Police
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kittyanya · Basic Member Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: SC

I haven't used the bar once and I've played both Beginner and Light. In fact, this Saturday, I've already picked out my songs on Extreme Arcade I'm gonna dance to and I don't plan to bar hug on any of them.

Butterfly, Kiss Kiss Kiss, V, Speed Over Beethoven. All on light.

The jumping thing is crazy. You're gonna wear yourself out trying to show off and jump too high. I do the jump ASAP, get back to center, and prepare for the nest steps if there's a space between the jump and next steps. If there's steps right AFTER the jump, I do the jump ASAP, then immediately jump to the next steps, avoiding the center all together.

I saw this one small kid pick Trip Machine survivor on Heavy. He held the bar the whole time, leaning back on it and letting his feet fly over the arrows. I was like Woah.
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JMAN.951 · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:07 am Post subject:

Konami states that using the bar for anyother reason that keeping you from falling backward off the pad are not to be used.

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figgy20000 · Trick Member Joined: 16 Feb 2004

JMAN, that is officially the best arguement I've ever seen against bar rapers. It's for good reason they included that as well.

I double bar raped Max300 Doubles once, and my left hand got too sweaty half way through. My left hand slipped off it and my back slammed into the left bar. Had I been in a different part of the song I could have fell through the center, which wouldn't have been pretty. I haven't bar raped doubles since.