I don't know what the reasons are or may be. But people do just need to love the game and play it.
Nowadays, a lot of people have just made tourney's all about the money/pot splits. Or maybe that's how it's always been. I don't know because I haven't been very much or at all involved in the FGC or its scene. I've only been recently exposed to it.
But as far as competition goes, I
try to take positives out of it (even if I'm super frustrated that I lost).
I used to get mad before but now it's almost non-existent. I just go into practice and practice against whatever opponent move gave me so much trouble until I learn to defend against it. (All that practice's implementation in an actual future match is another story.
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But yeah, maybe these people can train themselves to whiff punish hopkicks or something if they know the opponent is going to abuse them. I really don't even know what to say B/c I'm not as knowledgeable on Tekken as these top players so I always leave the possibility open for me being wrong on all of this.
Also, good work on that early Tekken training.
