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its okay dunno001, i am a fellow plateau-er as well. I've been playing DDR off and on for years...and I go through phases where I play religiously, and then not play for months and months. When I'm serious, I train for an hour-ish a day with 3 pound ankle weights, doing heavy singles and standard doubles. For now, and sadly for the rest of my years, the hardest i can probably do would be 10-ish feet on heavy single, and maybe 5-6 feet on standard double? i dont know, i dont really pay attention. I love DDR to pieces, but it's so hard to keep up with all my obsessions! rargh...
Yeah, obsessions suck time. And that's something I don't have. However, I did invest in the ankle weights, since last time I played at the arcade (a few months ago), there were only a few people there, and one of them was letting others use the 2 lb ones he had, and yeah, it was a definite workout, so I went and got 5 lb ones myself. They'll kill me... once I get the time to use them.
However, I did plateau because of the elitist attitude that a lot of the players in this area have about the game. Because of the Japanese versions, I was one of the first in the arcade to do trick/another/standard/whatever you want to call it, but when the mallrats got better, it was constant ridicule if you didn't play on maniac (or whatever). That stopped me for a while, and every time I get the urge to go back to it, I have to rebuild up my stamina for it. So I just never get better. Now the arcade has ITG2, and well... those tri and quad hits are a pain. But again, there's no real good way to practice those...
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