User:Sikass

Smash history
I first played Smash 64 after a birthday party I had went to. It was Saturday and too late to really go out and do anything (I was 11 at the time) so my friends and I just decided to pop in one of the new games he had gotten, "Super Smash Bros." I usually hated fighting games, but this one was different. It had all of the familiar characters I had fallen in love with growing up; Mario, Link, Fox, Pikachu. It even had characters that I didn't know I liked yet! I played the game for fun only and eventually it got boring (much like any other game). But when I heard a sequel was being released for the Gamecube I was stoked. The Christmas Melee came out I got it as a present and was it not the best present ever? I unlocked everything there was to unlock in a few weeks and eventually felt tired of playing the same people over and over... so I put it aside to gather dust for almost 2 years. I moved to Florida in 2003 and with it, found new friends and new people to play against. We were all pretty bad, using only shield roll to dodge incoming attacks. We didn't even know what shield grabbing or low jumping was. And, as history tends to repeat itself, we grew bored of the same tired routine of playing the same people all the time. However in June of '07 I got the sudden urge to play it when we went to Miami, but it took some coaxing to get everyone else to want to play it. We were still not very good but one of our friends had heard of this weird thing called "wave dashing." At first we thought it was just a shield roll but we looked it up on youtube and it looked so funky. Why were the toons sliding back and forth?! How did they do that? Why are they all as fast as Fox?! We were captivated. From then on we started to practice on getting better and during that time I kept thinking that Wave Dashing is impossible to do consistently. I went online and found SmashBoards.com, which led me to a lot of the guides that helped me greatly. And the most repeated advice throughout the forums for newbies was to practice. So I did.

And as of 11/16/07 I've learned to Wave Dash pretty close to 100% of the time and put it into play. I've also learned to SHFF and SHFFL a good 60-70% of the time.

I've also recently began to seek other people to play because playing the same people is, again, getting boring. I met someone in Ocala that works at Roadhouse, a place where my friends and I eat all the time. The fellow smasher also knows someone who used to work with me... small world, huh?