Seriously, one time I saw her 150% touch me. Bill had to repair the machine after that one.

4 ex I can Walk on Water I can Fly Expert 11 (groovestats)
4 ex Spin Chicken Expert 10
5 ex Summer in Belize Expert 10
18 ex Strangeprogram easy 11
96.47 Killing Fields Expert 14 Mungyodance3
59.80 For a Lifetime Expert 11 (3500+steps) FAIL, will pass it for stamina
#38 Sweet World Hard 8 Quad
#39 Infection Hard 8 Quad

I figured I'd update.  Somehow I am getting better, but stealth like.  I don't notice it until I try something that used to be hard. My old Killing Fields score was 82!

I... uh... AAA'd Hold On Me... on the  DDR EX JP home version + an afterburner... Sadly enough, that is my only Heavy AAA.

Oh, and the other day I full combo'd Waka Laka Heavy for the first time in 5 years. My great count was abysmal though; something like 31?

You'll get plenty if you keep playing home versions.  I busted out Ex2 a few months back.  At one point I played a string of 5 songs, 3 of which were sightread, and I AAA'd 3 of them, flagged one, and got two on the other.  It was silly.

Although the JP home versions seem to have slightly tighter timing windows than the US versions.

I finally got off my ass and made a little progress on a DDR pad today so I'll have SOME practice before BIMP.  Looks like I'll be practicing without a bar though.  Maybe I can get my stamina up again?  I miss getting better at this game, lol

i know the feeling... im not getting worse.... but im sure not gettingn better

We are all getting better.  What I've realized is that playing the same difficulty, whether it be hard or easy does not show fast results.  In fact it may even bore you.  It does to me.

I have found playing hard songs, then playing easier songs, then repeating that shows the best and quickest results.  While you may have reached a plateau on stamina songs, you have developed your accuracy better for easier songs.  Give it a shot. I'm sure you will score much higher.

Killing Fields is a wonderful example.  My old score was 82, now its a 96.47.  I have only played it twice.  But I hadn't played it for over 6 months.  Just a thought.  I get bored with trying to play stamina songs, or trying to quad easier songs all the time.  Gotta mix it up!

Variation is key to improving.  Back when I tried to fill out my DDRecall (2005), only playing 1 familiar chart per set pulled my average score from barely a AA to about 12 greats on all non-10's.  Additionally, I've talked to a few IIDX players who contend the best way to improve when you get stuck is to stop playing entirely for a couple weeks.  In either case, you get set in your ways be them correct or not, so you won't actually fix your mistakes by drilling something (being unable to handle particularly fast steps is an exception to some extent, but even then, clearing your notions about not being able to do it will help), you need to flush bad habits and come at it again fresh.

Here's a few notable achievements within the last month (all were done no-bar):

My second quad-star was my first AAA...how predictable. 6-3-09


2nd "Official" quad-star. 6-12-09






So dam close!


So dam close x2!

I'm far from Plateauing.  My issue is that I play on perhaps a monthly basis.  Back when I played twice a week at Milwaukie Wunderland, I was improving by leaps and bounds.  Between September 2006 and September 2007 I went from 30 AA's and no SDG's at the arcade to 150 AA's and 40 SDG's.  That was just playing at the arcade too, because my pads at home broke in late September 2006.  However, since Milwaukie Wunderland got rid of their DDR in August 2007, my skills have nearly halted.  I'll still go to the arcade and get a handful of new PR's, but if you look at my recall now, I've gotten perhaps 40 new AAA's and 10 new SDG's in over a year and a half.  It's not that I'm practicing hard and not improving; it's that I'm not playing.

You're starting to get good accuracy, I'm watching out for you

YEAH SUKO!!!

KIND LADY IS ALWAYS APPROPRIATE!

You've one my respect for the day. Can we have Kevin put that song on the ITG2 machine. I don't care. It's Kind Lady

KIND - FUCKIN - LADY

I mislabeled posts.  I thought Tofu had all those accomplishments.  I knew Suko always has had good accuracy.  LOL, but I'm still watching out for TOFU anyways

I honestly have no idea if this is just ridiculously horrible criticism, or if this is a genuine compliment...but, um...thanks?  

no it's a genuine compliment.
Once you get to know me better, you'll understand I have lots of energy
Sorry if I freaked you out.

Kind Lady is pretty much the grooviest song ever.  With the possible exception of Groove 2001.  That song is PHAT.

8 minutes until the glue is set and I'm ready to start attaching actives.  Ground's set and I've just gotta attach a couple wires to it.  Then I can start the drilling and HOPEFULLY be playing StepMania on a pad before I go to bed tonight.

I'm getting much much better at stamina songs!  I have no pictures or concrete stuff to report, but I no longer feel nearly as drained as I did after playing stuff like Fledh Uncut, or anything with constant streams.  Yay lung function!! 

I remember that same feeling when I finally passed Xuxa and other streamy stuff like Delirium. It's a good feeling.

yeah, when i passed delerium i almost shit a brick, but the pass admittedly was VERY premature

I passed Fledh Uncut with you, for the first time, but my lungs don't function so well. Nor does my esophagus - GERD and ITG are two largely incompatible acronyms.

Is Delirium fairly close in difficulty to Xuxa?  I passed Xuxa back in September or November, which was my big Stamina goal for a while, and I haven't really had one lately except to be able to pass PSMO again.

delirium is harder than that other song.

i played in the groove 2 today and it made me tired.

why does everyone have gerd.

Delerium is a fair margin harder than xuxa

Delirium is harder than Xuxa for sure. 

By the way, I passed For a Lifetime with a 93.16

Okay, thanks for letting me know.  Although I guess I'm not too worried about failing songs over and over again if I can get a setup at home.

Ultimate accomplishment: failed Max300 Super MaxMeMix Oni Doubles today. Excellent, but let's go better next time.

I'm off to the arcade right now with the goal of getting a AAA on unpatched Supernova. Either that or installing SN2 or X or something.

UPDATE: And that plan was cancelled. Looks like the unpatched SN was sold because it wasn't making as much money as Euromix. Installing SN2 or X in a 1st Mix cabinet it is, then.

UPDATE2:

6 greats 1 miss Max300 Heavy Singles.
5 greats 1 miss So Deep Heavy Singles.

Somewhere, something is wrong.