I Wish I'd Made This: Footsies Sermon

On the data journalism politics/sports site FiveThirtyEight, they have an ongoing series where they post about things they wish they had written and direct the reader toward the article in question. They’re always titled “Damn, We Wish We’d Done These (insert number) Stories This Month.” I’m going to go ahead and steal their idea about stealing ideas (which they stole from Bloomberg News, so it’s all fair game!), except of course, I’m going to try and point people toward great fighting game-related content that I wish I’d been smart enough to think of.

Whether it's text, video, or whatever else, I generally prefer brevity. I tend to think most things, when explained well, can be explained pretty quickly (at least at a fundamental level). This is why I try to keep my own videos short and to the point. Sometimes though, a topic needs space to breathe. Videos like the one Viscant made with Cross Counter, breaking down the kind of mindset you need when learning a tag fighter, just aren't possible to do in five or ten minutes. As great as that Viscant video is, I think the greatest monument to this idea is Juicebox's explanation of footsies in Street Fighter. I'm not going to try and summarize it at all since that would contradict the point I've been making this entire post, but somehow, an unplanned/unscripted 48 minute stream of consciousness lecture is the best explanation of footsies I have ever witnessed. (Warning: video has some swearing if you care about that kind of thing.)