You start bench pressing for the first time ever in your life. You find out that your max bench is 75lbs. After a week of doing 5 sets of 4 at 65lbs, you decide to try to max out again. Your max is now 80lbs.
So three weeks later, you're doing 5 sets of 4 at 75lbs. A week after that, you find out that your max bench is now 90lbs. A few months later, you're doing 5 sets of 4 at 115lbs. You find out your max bench is 130lbs. A few months later, you're noticing that your max bench has not gone over 130lbs at all. You don't know what the problem is.
Your bench pressing buddy's max exceeded 140lbs last week and you're wondering what the fuck you're doing wrong. You get your buddy to give you advice, but it's not working.
You start to remember when you were benching a measly 75lbs almost a year ago, but now you're upset that you've reached a roadblock.
You watch the body building channel, and see guys benching 225lbs with eachother like it ain't shit. You get pissed off, and little inspired by these guys, so you drive to the gym, motivated to get at least 155lbs up at least once.
You put the weights on the bar, you're fucking ready, you're like "I got this shit."
You lay on the bench, and the bar is on your chest. Uhh, this was a bad idea, I can't handle this. What am I doing wrong?
This is me with Tekken. I feel like I've gotten so far when it comes to skill. But, there is a huge skill barrier between me and a lot of other people. Even after a FT10 with a 15dan, and losing 10 times, I don't know what's going wrong.
I'm poking, I'm turtling, I'm being patient, I'm blocking, I'm even punshing. Shit, I'm not even getting grabbed. I'm not even getting rushed down, I'm just getting outplayed.
You guys every play someone in Tekken, where, they aren't rushing you down, but they aren't poking? It's almost as if they just do strings and run through your defense. You don't even have a chance to attack, because you feel like any opportunity you get to attack, is bait. And that's literally what it feels like. "Alright, time to throw in a quick mid", no,
boom counter hit launch, or, no,
boom, got you in a silly string strap, or,
boom, launched you bitch. I don't know what's going on.
I can beat AAK no problem, but AAK is an example of what I'm talking about. He lazily runs through my defense.
Here's a graph of my skill increase in Tekken since the release of Tag 2.