Here’s the first post on my new sub-blog.  Like my friend Francis, I figured it’d be a good idea if I start writing down my thoughts as a Street Fighter player.  I’m doing my best to organize it as well as possible.  Hopefully the categories work out well.

For starters, my name is Jon and I play Street Fighter IV.  I’ve been playing since Feb 2009 when the game came out on consoles.  I just recently started going to real tournaments, such as the AZ Ranbats, but even at the beginning I participated in the Gamestop National Tournament and won Round 1.  I live close to AZ Mills where there is a SFIV Netcity cabinet, and every now and then I go there for some competition outside of online.

My first time playing the game, I played Ken.  I switched to Cammy the moment I unlocked her in the console game, and then played her a bit and got used to the mechanics of the game (Fireball/SRK motions, dealing with flowchart Kens, etc).  I then moved to Ryu, where I had much greater success (Comboing into Ultra!).  Now I’ve finally settled on my character for Street Fighter IV, Crimson Viper.  I keep Ryu as my secondary because he is just too good in the game and too versatile, but I would ultimately like to be exclusively a Viper player.

This blog will serve partly as a way of chronicling my findings and experiences as a player and partly as a repository for all of the knowledge I glean from the internet, most of it being from SRK.  As such, I have categories and subcategories relating to matchup strategies and movesets.  I hope this blog blooms into a valuable resource.