Fighting Games, Combat Sports, & The Life Lessons They Taught Us | Jam Radio w/ Pattheflip

streamed May 19, 2021 Jam Radio is a longform chat hosted by Sajam featuring different FGC guests. This time Patrick Miller is here to... interview me? You may know Pattheflip as a writer, Chipp player, tournament organizer and Xrd evangelist. You can read some of his recent articles on   / pattheflip   Thanks to Pat for coming on to talk about the things that make us the type of people and players that we are.   / pattheflip     / pattheflip     / pattheflip      / pattheflip   Timestamps (This is a pretty free form show, timestamps are always abstract): 0:00 Intro (The Ballad of 10f Mika) 1:33 Who are you, Pat? 2:35 Pat's the one asking the questions here 3:40 First impressions from back in the day 5:08 The desire for dense games with lots of stuff in them 5:58 How did your first fighting games shape your tastes within the genre? 6:30 What's special about KI? 7:44 UNI is another game that has lots of decisions to make constantly 8:16 "Your game is stinky compared to SF4" 10:03 Are there games that you can't really get into because they can't scratch the same itches KI did? 12:34 What made you get into the scene and really play all these games more than casually? 13:53 We are the exception to most people, in that we want to play a fighting game for hundreds or thousands of hours 14:49 The competitive aspect and the 1v1 nature is what really fascinates me 16:04 My wrestling background 17:39 My first year wrestling I went 1-30 for the year and I had a blast 18:04 The winning Abel strategy 18:42 What kind of player are you, what do you value/work on? 19:18 The last time I competed in KI at EVO 20:14 I was focused on controlling the pace of the game with my character 21:50 What kind of wrestler were you, what were you good at? 22:46 I was great in neutral and on defense but had no offense 23:33 I was a zoner in wrestling 24:27 Pat's experience with combat sports 25:04 The importance of fundamentals and conditioning 26:13 Timer scamming in combat sports 27:42 Who's your favorite MMA fighter? 28:40 Getting involved in coaching 30:11 What do you teach new wrestlers? 31:05 Being supportive as a teacher 32:44 Everybody learns at different paces and in different ways and has different expectations 34:19 I'm essentially doing the same thing except now it's fighting games and the students are people on the internet 35:22 Did you realize you were going to be a lot of people's first introduction to the competitive aspects of the genre? 35:58 I always want to help as many people as possible with things that will fundamentally help them in more than just specific scenarios 38:05 How did the people that taught you effect the way you teach? 39:07 How are you trying to improve your teaching ability? 40:11 Refinements since the early days 41:23 Learning the things NOT to do 41:51 Things that formed my approach to content 42:52 Gushing about Day9 44:08 Explaining how things work is not really the same as teaching the things 45:17 The Evolution of the Sajam Fan 47:23 Teaching positive attitude through your work 49:20 No tolerance for assholes 51:19 The audience you build is the one that you get 52:02 Y'all wouldn't know a dead game if it hit you in the face 54:15 The fact that fighting games are still going and actually thriving in the modern era is kind of stunning 57:02 Rollback 59:21 Growing the current Xrd scene 1:01:17 I love beginner brackets 1:01:39 Organizing locally to overcome the barriers of netcode 1:04:12 You'll have a better time playing a game you like with a small scene than sticking with a bigger game you don't like 1:06:05 You might come back around on stuff you didn't like when the circumstances are different 1:07:01 Happy Chaos and Goldlewis are sick Follow Sajam on Twitter & Twitch:   / sajam     / sajam     / discord   If you're ever confused by some terminology try looking it up in the FG Glossary: https://glossary.infil.net/ Clips Channel:    / sajamclips   Editing/Thumbnail by Magic Moste:   / magicmoste   #FGC #Sajam #JamRadio #GuiltyGear