Arde vs Arstal (1,2)
1st match: Fuerte v Honda
A turtle fight as usual - I know the match-up pretty well and was able to bait Arstal into doing unsafe headbutts or got him as he was charging. Once Honda was knocked down, I was able to harass him on the wakeup or at least make him lose his EX meter as he spent it doing EX buttslam.
2nd match: Fuerte v Rose
Here it shows my biggest problem with Rose: I rarely fight against her so I don't know what safe or unsafe moves/block string she has that I can punish or should block/avoid.
3rd match: Gen v Rose
Same thing as the 2nd match - thinking about it now, I should've used Fuerte here since I know even less about Gen v Rose match-up.
The biggest problem I had against Arstal was him using Rose. Although I don't think Fuerte or Gen has a bad match-up against Rose, but just the severe lack of match-up knowledge put me in a great disadvantage from the start.
Good going for Arstal for actually using such an underutilized character, but hopefully his Honda will be able to match up with Saq's killer Rose (Arstal should probably also start training Chun as well for the secondary for the Saq match).