I haven't really been directly trained as such apart from on a couple of separate occasions. Probably easier (for me anyway) to split my biggest influences in to games modes.
Haxball in general Easy guess for anyone, its ya boy
Maddude. Introduced me to the game when we became friends at college, played in multiple teams and formats with him. I count myself very fortunate to have not only have a real life friend play the game but have a real life friend who is one of the best players the country has ever had be the guy to bring me through from day 1. Having the advantage of being comfortable chatting on mic from an early stage really helped as well, getting told I am doing something wrong as I'm doing it helped me kick some bad habits quickly... although I still have a lot of bad habits
These days we bounce tactics and stuff off of each other as opposed to Mad just telling me or showing me how to play, anyone who played with him during his fully active days knows the big brain energy this guy has.
One of the only people who ever took me in to a closed haxball room and actually trained me was the prince of Algeria
DeStorm . Aside from being one of the funniest guys in the game, he used to be, in my opinion, hideously underrated as a player. He taught me some haxball physics which I never knew existed - sticky lifting, ball momentum and soft kicking/catching the ball on purpose. He is a rare sight on ts nowadays and even rarer sight in haxball itself. Much love if you read this Samir <3
Next one is someone who I think really helped my mentality more than my technical ability, one of my greatest friends and someone I don't give enough attention to now,
Herna. I joined Turn Up Turnips shortly after ACDP decided to part ways, at this point in time I was used to winning games, fses, officials... not so much hcl and nc but those aren't important. Herna, and all the other Turnips for that matter, reminded me how haxball is most fun when doing the the best you can with people you have good relationships with. There were some days I got annoyed for sure, but it helped me greatly in the long and even today I look back very fondly on the time I spent with my German-based family.
Also need to give a shoutout to the first captain who gave me time in an official match
Ghost.
4v4 3DefWhen
Isco first came to ACDP I was pretty amazed at how much one player could influence the game so much. He never showed frustration at me sucking and always gave advice after games. Any time I have asked for tips on ts he has always given me proper replies, I am blessed to have become connected with him and many other Israeli players!
Falk is a player I've always respected. He is another player I've asked for advice from on ts and when I do convince him that I'm not trolling him he is happy to give me some words of wisdom and often will even dig out an old replay to give me some examples. Appreciate the time he puts in to help others - as was evident in the Grey's Academy project.
3v3Shortest section by far as I'm not a massive fan of 3v3 and have never played in what I consider a fully competitive league. What I did learn was largely down to conversations I saw between Mad and
B4D 4SS having in the premhax ts during/after their games.
4v4 Big EasyI've had a couple of brief stints in the Russian league,
se7ent was the first one I played with as a GK/DM duo and although language barrier was often too hard an obstacle to overcome, just playing with someone who knew how to play big easy so well helped me gain an understanding of what was a whole new world to me.
Wenom was another great player I had the opportunity to play with in the Russian league, he would tell me how to better position myself as a forward player and always give some advice on the mic during games.
He also knows many smokes on csgoI was also crazy enough to stay up till 2-3am playing in the North American league SPHB for a couple of seasons.
Lindros was my first captain there and immediately struck me with how tactical the game can be. This was the first time since I'd started playing that I had been involved in a 'training session' where the team all came in to a room and we set up defences and discussed who's job it was to move where when the ball would be passed to a certain position. I'd never seen tactical detail like this before and it took me a while to appreciate it. I didn't take this seriously enough and wasted a chance to play with the best modern DM in NA regularly.
Shoutout to
Flossy while I'm on the topic of SPHB
That probably covers it, even in that list very little is direct training but I feel learnt a lot from those people. If I missed you off and you think you taught me some things I'm sorry!
Posted: January 16th, 2019, 3:34 am
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