We get hurt too Believe it or not, we dance game players also suffer from injuries from time to time. Nobody has ever suffered from anything serious (at least not that I know of), but we all have our fair

How often is enough? Just like with regular sports, ITG requires practice and training. It's an activity that benefits from progressive overload and it is very easily to quantitatively measure your ability:

Drink lots of water Just like in all sports, staying hydrated is one of the most important things in ITG. I stress this point because it's important to see that competitive dance games are just as athletic

It's synonymous with quitting A "walk-off" in ITG is almost the same as failing, except it's worse. It is the equivalent of quitting out of a song intentionally because some part of your performance

When the motivation runs low Bad days on ITG happen just like good ones. They're extremely frustrating and feel like nothing can be done to turn them around. It's also difficult to determine which of your

I bought a Dyson I hated vacuuming as a child. My parents used to make me do it every Saturday, and we had a big house with lots of floor space, so it would end up taking something like an hour to do.

Positive thinking A healthy mindset is absolutely crucial to actualize gains in ITG. Without it, the motivation to play will quickly wane and gains will be gone as quickly as they were attained. ITG is

Some thoughts on stamina Stamina is the ability to maintain performance of some sort under a strain that is induced by the performance. In athletic sports, it's most synonymous with distance running, cross

It keeps you clean You get nice and sweaty playing ITG, so naturally you develop for yourself a regular showering and cleaning routine. It sort of forces you into it, because there's nothing less comfortable

Dance Games fix all In one of my previous posts a few weeks ago I was lamenting over how the crypto life took me over and everything anciliary in my life effectively went to shit. Dance games came along

You eat alot Since we're training alot more, that also means we're eating alot more too. If there was one thing I needed to fix up my diet and to start eating again, then it was picking up dance games

You get active Naturally, the first thing that living a dance game life does for you is that it gets you up and moving. You hit arrows with your feet, and at the highest levels of play that becomes more

It's a lifestyle, not a hobby If you were to describe dance games to someone who had never heard of it before, they could be excused for seeing it as a game or a means to pass time. After all, it has all

FA Stepartists LITTLE MATT, JAYCE AND TYLER: Little Matt (and Jim) is the reason I started writing those bullshit technical files that are starting to turn up in my packs. He's shown to me that it is possible

Stream stepartists: MAD MATT Matt, who stepped primarily for playability, modeled his patterning after what felt good, and especially during Tachyon Beta he had some really good executions in some songs

I've been stepping for a long time I thought I would write a post about the stepartists who have influenced my work throughout the yers. I can actually go into a lot of detail about this because there

Patience is a virtue Today has been a bit of a bloody day in crypto world. Bitcoin is down, as are alts. Steem is down a bit, as is SBD. All in all, everything's a little gloomy. I think now would be a

It's been a long journey Today I finished Persona 5's NG+. I started playing Persona 5 in May of last year, and pretty much bought a PS4 for the purpose of playing that game and that game only. It's hard

Australia is Hot It's no secret that Australia is infamous for its incredible heat. In case you haven't heard, we're mostly desert too. I've lived here for 21 years now, so I've gotten pretty used to it,

The Dream Life I had the day off work today and because I had my simfile deadlines out of the way and had my pack out and that had all died down a bit, I was able to relax and take the day at a slow pace.