Posted by Colin

This is true for the most part but some people are sort of in the middle of the skill spectrum, maybe Player A is somewhat decent but not good enough for the skilled players in the streak room so in order to better his skill he uses the side room and because of that he gets a bad reputation and classified a booster maybe it helps him get a good record more than the streak room would but people are aware of who's good and who isn't regardless of someone's ratio

are you that canadian guy who boosted(selective sparred) in facebook client room? i might be wrong but your name seems familiar  

Haven't sparred in almost a year now aside from guild sparring and my record isn't even that good so no I was not that guy, only time I used the FB streak room was when scores got reset or it had a lot of people in it.

Also, another thing that might help Blu is get a friend who's similar to your skill level or a bit better and spar them in a guild house which let's you both practice more - I did this with Dae and Slayer and it helped me improve a lot.  

Posted by Blu

The reason I was in a side room was that Thallen, PT and many other talented sparrers were in the streak room.

Fight them and go negative or never learn to actually spar vs decent people. That's probably your only way of actually getting better.  

should record again on a weekday instead of a weekend, would have a lower ping and would just be better quality spars in general  

Quick spar room isn't bad. I met this guy named Tykian. Assuming from his flag he's from France. We emptied the quick spar room and basically kept facing each other just like a series but without counting who won more or less. I won a lot from the beginning, but he didn't give up and at the end, I almost got flawed. Lol at that point, he found my weakness and used it as an advantage.  

Posted by Brett

Fight them and go negative

That can cause more harm than good. Being totally raiped by the upper echelon sparrers can shake their confidence and push them away from sparring.

Posted by Brett

never learn to actually spar vs decent people. That's probably your only way of actually getting better.

It's just like boxing, need to take it step at a time. Not everyone can be a Mike Tyson.

Posted by Brett

Fight them and go negative or never learn to actually spar vs decent people. That's probably your only way of actually getting better.

Overall I agree with this statement, but the iclassic community has put way too much importance into spar ratios. Good advice for towering and pk since those don't carry a W-L record.  

I'm definitely not good at spar, but I once tried to learn from someone who was and some of the advice I remember is: Not to wear bulky hats or clothes while sparring, always try to guess your opponents next move, don't just randomly swing your sword hoping for the best (I'm sure that's a given, but I always did that anyways), and obviously practice.

Then again, like I said, I'm terrible at sparring. I started doing really well for awhile, but got bored because I didn't have anyone to spar with. Good luck out there!  

I'm not really a good sparrer I still consider myself lucky when I win a few, All I could say is now a days you can't just go on the offensive anymore, Its like Fulgore said you have to take some time and read your opponent see what movements he's doing so you can get him from any open sides and be sure to use the whole ring.  

There were a couple of slashes you could have avoided. You didn't take opponent lag into account. Spectators really ought to be switched to UDP (or a similar protocol) to minimize their contribution to lag.  

Posted by Brett

Fight them and go negative or never learn to actually spar vs decent people. That's probably your only way of actually getting better.

There's a difference between fighting decent people and putting up a fight, and getting trapped in a corner and not dealing any damage.

A series after being called a noob.
I still lost  

I am usually always open to giving people pointers when I'm online. I respond to 9/10 PMs, and will happily spar around in my guildhouse with you.

My general advice is to spar people that are a little better than you and work your way up from there. If you do nothing but spar low skilled players, then sure your record will look neat but you'll lose when anyone of substantial dexterity goes up against you.  

Posted by Blu

There's a difference between fighting decent people and putting up a fight, and getting trapped in a corner and not dealing any damage.

A series after being called a noob.
I still lost

I don't think sparring while you are recording at full screen is going to help you. From my experience recording at full screen it makes you slow/laggy. Just record the size of the spar square or have a friend record you.  

just listen to lil b while sparring  

Posted by GOAT

I don't think sparring while you are recording at full screen is going to help you. From my experience recording at full screen it makes you slow/laggy. Just record the size of the spar square or have a friend record you.

agree with goat on this  

This is why I don't spar in mixed rooms much.
Why is it that quick rooms have worse rep than this?

I'm not going to continue with this thread as I know not many people are interested, but I'd just like to know why a room full of laggers, delayers and hackers has a better reputation than other rooms?