Help on a home pad plz

[p1mp]

Hi , I'm brand new to the community, hope its better than the cs community =x. I have been playing for a couple of months, max 1 and 2 at home. I purchased them at my local GameStop , along with my cheap 20 dollar pad. I played in the arcade for the first times about 3 weeks ago. I love it so much, but I wasn't nearly as good as I am at home , I can do pretty much all the 9 footers on max/max2 with my pad. Along with passing them all I have developed bad soft pads habbits. I have been dragging my foot , say it was a 1/8 th beat combo somthing like up right up , I would do it with all one foot. I found out three weeks ago that this doesn't work in arcade. I really want to get good at ddr so I want to buy a pad. I ask you this , what pad is MOST like the arcade. Not which is the best hardpad, then I would just get cf , which is Most like that arcade. I need to learn to play ddr again the right way, no more drags.
Thanks for your help
-pimp

[Dance_More]

you might wanna post this in the metal pad discussion...anyway metal pads are expensive at around 300$ for one...i think it would be cheaper just to practice at the arcade a lot

ps- i live about an hour and 45 minutes from richmond