DDR "styles", anyone?

Tweek · Trick Member Joined: 13 Jan 2006

Okay, so around here, there are a good 20 DDR/ITG players considered more serious (Note: Gross estimation going on) Myself being among them. "serious" around here being anything above 10-foot songs. It seems, sometimes that the more serious players dress a certain way or listen to certain music, you know?

Me-Currently, I am able to pass most 12's, can SDG all 9 footers and A emerald sword on stepmania. Currently, I am wearing a pair of black and green bondage pants that I bought from hot topic, a black button-down shirt over a spiderman t-shirt and a pair of shades on my forhead. Favorite music genre: Symphonic metal.

Pete-My rival... need I say more? Normally wears ridiculously baggy jeans, torn T-shirts and whatever raver junk he deems appropriate. Favorite genre of music:Techno-hardcore? Note: can't PA as well as I, but can still pass two or so songs I cant.

Nick-Our beginner. Recently passed his first 10 footer. Nick can AA UB3R R4V3 on stepmania. His most recent accomplishment: Max 300, I think.
Nick ALWAYS seems to wear rainbow or biker gloves, has long LONG blonde hair and is normally seen in baggy jeans with too many chains on his wallet. His mom calls him "goth" all the time. I dunno.

Chris-Currently the best player in our state, can pass all but vertex^2 and holds most of the ITG song records under the name Kari. Can * to *** up to 11 foot, something like that. Chris normally wears bondage pants, a gaming t-shirt (most notably, his "1337" shirt) and a handcuffed jacket on occasions like raves, he has long red hair with black highlights. Favorite band, last I heard: Avenged sevenfold.

There's more, but for the most part, our DDR players dress very "raver" "goth" whatever steryotype, scene or cliche you may wanna place on them. I was wondering how many other people noticed anything like this.
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DARREN HAYEZ · Trick Member Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Location: Michigan

I don't know how you can play DDR/ITG in those bondage pants or baggy pants.

I don't really have a 'style'. I just wear stuff I like. For playing DDR/ITG I usually wear loose fitting basketball shorts or the like and a T-shirt. I don't wear my regular clothes, like jeans, to play DDR/ITG in because it is too hard for me.
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Evil_pied · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jun 2006

Usually black pants and a t-shirt and very old shoes.

Resolute · Trick Member Joined: 30 May 2005

when practicing i wear heavier clothes, such as my thick jeans and winter sweatshirt. when actually playing for points, i wear my lighter jeans and tin sweatshirt.

yeah its basically the same thing but the heavy jeans are probably 2 pounds heavier than my light ones and the sweatshirts are by no comparison in the thickness of the fabric
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UncertainKitten · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject:

Hawaiian shirt+under shirt (experimenting with transfer sheets to create a show-offy DDR shirt

) and semi-baggy shorts. Occasionally I where 2 strings around my wrists for effect. The Hawaiian overshirt is for effect to, 'cause when I want to "show-off" on a harder song then my usual comfort zone, I fling it off, sometimes in mid song if I get a chance

. And that would be my clothing style. Playing wise I use a perfect attack style, although I'm attempting to learn basic freestyle to go from there

. Interesting what y'all play in. I find full pants get in my way. I have NO idea what I'm gonna do for winter :S.
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Dakota · Trick Member Joined: 28 Feb 2006

I like to play DDR in chained/strapped black pants that make an unbelievably annoying *crraangkcrrangkcrrangk* noise whenever I move. The pants weigh about 800 pounds so it's kind of hard to PA, which is the main reason I get B's on songs. The only songs I ever pick are A and Era and Abyss and .59 and anything else that has a symphnoic background to it. I usually wear shoes that are made of plastic and are about 3 feet thick. All black. Everything black. All from Hot Topic to...the store that no one else shops at because only me and my tortured artist friends shop there. I play guitar to...well actually the only thing I know is the D chord and Crazy Train but that's fine with me. Yeah I usually play DDR in groups of people from my band. Yeah I'm in a band. Well right now it's only me and my friend, and only one of us has a guitar but it's still fine. Our lyrics rule. We write about death and pain and war and how much Bush sucks. Totally original stuff like that. But when I go play DDR, it's usually me and one of my friends and then about twelve or thirteen girls who also are tortured artists and shop at hot topic. They play on light...such noobs. I like to show off in front of them by playing really hard songs like So Deep and Max 300. I can pass So Deep with a C but I can't pass Max 300. No one can. That song is impossible and no one in the world can do it.
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GotACoolName · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject:

Why does almost everyone need to wear shorts? I play just as well, if not better, in pants.

Serious question.
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UncertainKitten · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject:

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momomixer · Trick Member Joined: 25 Sep 2005

I personally do not have a DDR style but i have noticed that girls who shop at hot topic and play ddr seem to pick every blasting anime/j_pop song on there but if i had to have a style it would be the shoes changing them chages my song selection depending on whether im playing ironfoot or light footed by wearing either adidas flat footed shoes or sneakers

my two cents
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ItsDrew · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:19 am Post subject:

Wow your right i just thought about it and everyone who can do above 10's here wears a T-shirt, Jeans, and Converse everytime i see them at the mall and most of the time when i see them elsewhere aswell

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Tweek · Trick Member Joined: 13 Jan 2006

I think this cold use some explaining. This thread was intended for me to see if DDR/ITG touches certain "cultures" in children, or if DDR develops a sort of culture of it's own among players. I find myself hanging out wth more and more people who play rather than people who don't. Not out of discriminatin, but because of the amount of time I spend with these people, playing at our arcade.
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Hlavco · Trick Member Joined: 18 Jan 2004

I play in whatever I'd normally wear, which is generally cargo pants, a t-shirt, and sneakers (sometimes Timberland boots). I do most of my shopping at Old Navy. (Don't know what people have against Old Navy. I mean, it looks good and it's cheap. Win-win.) So yeah, I'd say I look pretty average, and stand out among the Hot Topickers that usually crowd the machine. (One time I showed up at the mall wearing my Timberlands and a blinding white hooded sweatshirt. I really stood out in the sea of depressing black clothes) I can beat all the nines, as well as the two easy tens. At home I can beat all but Paranoia Survivor Max Heavy/Oni. My personal favorite music: Billy Joel.
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Fred 00 · Trick Member Joined: 02 May 2005 Location: offline

[quote="Dakota"]The truth about Hot Topic nerds [quote]

Ugh, I despise people like that. My school has alot of those people. They are all, "Im so emo/goth i go to hot topic and whore out on the black stuff yet im so preppy because im all happy and excited around people".

I almost turned into one of those fools, but now Im normal.
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GotACoolName · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: