Comments on: Some questions about training tools

By: Human Reaction Times at Daikon Forge

Human Reaction Times at Daikon Forge — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:10:40 +0000

[…] In addition to that, if you read the user comments and other information on the site, it highlights the importance of training to improve reaction times. This could easily be extrapolated to demonstrate the viability of some of the available third-party C:SI training tools. […]

By: Malachi Rothschild

Malachi Rothschild — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:35:38 +0000

I luuuuv the yasuragi perfect timing tool. It’s fun and it’s a great way to get people new to c:si used to the keys. It’s good for reaction time. Just great in general.

I like eyana’s obstacle courses and jump slash trainers. Cages/boxes are awesome in all their unscripted glory.

I forget the name of it, but I like yasuragi’s tool with the three balls that surround you, move in and out, and the other one which I first learned about from Aimee when I joined c:si is the Infamous Designs target dummy. The one thing I’d like to see in something similar is a very minute hp count in each part of the dummy. That way it won’t count bumping into it as a hit.

Yasuragi’s tool with the ball that moves on a mat is one I find helpful too.

I’d like to see more training tools use the same trick as yasuragi’s timing tool so that they can recognize kicks and even blocks when necessary.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:06:30 +0000

And just what’s wrong with bot? Just kidding. Well, sorta, as I actually do use a bot for testing and training (though it’s in dire need of fixing at this point).

It seems to me that there are really some great training tools out there, and really the only reason for a dev to get involved in training tools would be (as you say) to add the ability to hit back.

A tanking trainer does indeed sound cool, and I bet there are quite a few people who would use such a thing. I’m hoping that the makers of training devices will see these comments and take away some ideas for “the next version” too, hehe.

Practicing with a friend is *always* good, but not always possible. Plus, there are just times when you want to hammer the living crap out of something after a hard day’s work, and that’s sometimes hard to ask a friend to put up with

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:49:39 +0000

Straight Razor’s Iaido Trainer is really cool, especially as it can be a little game between several people (who’s fastest?). I also like Yasuragi’s Perfect Timing device. One thing I wish both of them did was give reaction time of each strike in milliseconds (Yasuragi’s gives an average in ms after going through an entire set of tests, about 35 I think).

A training device I thought about after using Perfect Timing is something like a “tanking trainer”, something which goes through block, kick, and slash animations against which one can practice basic ‘kata’, like the stun-counterslash thing for example. Maybe it turns green if you hit it and red if you are blocked, or something. Reaction speed of the device and particular patterns practiced might be controllable by user? If a dev got involved it might even be made to hit back, though the more fighting features you add, the more it starts to look like a bot…

On the other hand, it’s perhaps better to just IM a friend and practice tanking that way^^

By: Atrus Westland

Atrus Westland — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:43:30 +0000

I know we have some interesting one at our dojo. I have no idea what the names, of them are, or who they were made by. I’m pretty sure Mal does though.