You know, I haven't written much in here, except about DDR. As you can see, I'm not really fond of publicly writing about the important things in my life.

Anyway, AA #200: Drop Out Challenge (I'm at 202 AAs now).

It's interesting how as you become better at DDR (and ITG, I suppose, although there are some differences), it seems that you un-learn some stuff you go learnt earlier. I think this claim is generally incorrect, but just follow the following discussion, which is generally correct but "shows" the above flawed claim to be superficially somewhat true (see the last paragraph of the following):

This is how most people learn DDR -

Beginner to Basic: Keep your feet away from the center, that is, don't follow what the guy on the video screen does! Try to step on beat.

Basic to Standard: Start alternating your feet, except for arrows on the same key. Start sight-reading better and faster. Get more comfortable with the location of your feet on the pad. Start doing more frequent jumps and 8th notes.

Standard to Easy Heavy: Even better sight-reading - more frequent chaos steps, long streams of 8ths in faster songs. Learn to cross-over as far as possible, allowing your body to face perpendicular to rather than directly at the screen. Avoid too much double-stepping as this tends to get off-beat for someone at this level.

Medium-to-hard heavy and beyond: Speed mods - reaction times and sight reading is fast enough to allow faster scroll speeds for greater accuracy. Bar raping to ensure even faster reaction times and balance maintenance. Start keeping feet as close as possible to the center to minimize feet movement; ultimately your aim is to bracket rape. Minimize crossovers, double-step as far as possible to maintain good timing and try to avoid turning your body too much, except for really fast crossovers.