Make sure to turn on input display in training mode. If you bought some cheap $40 one, you're gonna have a bad time. Using a stick definitely has a steeper learning curve than a pad, but as someone who has used both, using a stick is very worth the struggle with inputs. I dont know what type of stick you're using, but if you're using a ball top, then you want to hold the ball of it like a wine glass, and make the motions with your wrist, not your fingers Do the same for every new and unfamiliar motion, and simply slowly acclimate yourself to inputting the motion over and over againДЄnother thing that might be affecting your inputs is the way that you hold the stick.

There are a lot of shortcuts to doing special inputs, but none will be as reliable if you don't have a solid foundation on what the motion actually is. Check your input display, and see if your inputs were clean (only perfect practice makes perfect). Turn on input display, and practice inputting forward, neutral (stick not going in any direction) then down, and from down to forward. You want to hop into training mode, and start off with making slow, deliberate motions, and slowly ramping up in speed if you feel that you're comfortable at that speed. So as a relatively new stick user myself, I can give a little advice: it's just practice, practice, and more practice.

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