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Originally posted by fizik

Setup? I doubt. It's skill at all. Setup = hardware,right? Just because you have 120hz screen,gaming keyboard,gaming mousepad and a gamer mouse doesn't mean it's easy to jump far. I know people did 256 with 5€ mouse + keyboard. All is about practice at longjumping. Also,holding the mouse is something you have to find out for yourself,I hold it like a cripple sometimes ;D

Setup includes but is not limited to hardware. A huge factor is how you are setup at your desk, how you hold the mouse, etc. Everyone sits and plays a unique way, but some people's unique way makes long-jumping much easier. Go look at that video.

For example, when I hold my mouse I tilt it about 60 degrees to the left. This makes strafing more difficult in one direction. Also I use a cloth pad, which I find restricts my mouse mobility (but provides great traction for shooting, see my post in the lj help thread.)

A 5$ mouse and keyboard might be far better than my setup for LJ, it depends on many factors. I built my setup around shooting and played shooting way more than I played KZ - most of the people who are very good at LJ and other aspects of KZ are specialists who do not play shooting (or play little in comparison) and started CS1.6 with KZ.

Of course skill and talent is a part of it, but it's a very small part I would argue. There aren't a whole lot of talents that LJ requires - quick, tiny motor movements. If anything the creativity to optimize / make best use of your setup is probably the most important talent (aka finding a good technique.)

Btw, on a side note, I have another hobby which requires good dexterity - piano playing. One of the biggest advantages in playing the piano is good technique which really doesn't have anything to do with your innate talent or skill (other than maybe your ability to be creative.) Coming up with good fingering patterns, good ways to transition between parts, and numerous tricks to make things easy for your hands are very important. Likewise in LJ, I'm sure if someone can devise a setup (way of sitting, way of holding mouse, equipment to use, etc.) they would be far ahead of the curve. I think that some people naturally have this without realizing it.

Here is what I would envision for a good LJ technique:

1) Use high sensitivity so your hand movements are the smallest to make large strafes - this will let you do more of them more quickly
2) To strafe, simply gently wiggle the mouse (like in that movie)
3) Hold the mouse in a level way, tilted in neither direction, so you can strafe evenly back and forth
4) Use a mouse that you can grip straight
5) Highest HZ, Highest DPI, hyper-glide mouse skates, lowest in-game and windows (known optimal settings for tracking)
6) Low friction pad
7) Desk at a good height, monitor straight across from your head (same with piano - if your way of sitting is uncomfortable to you, you will develop strain and fatigue and thus be unable to practice as much / as well)

And so on. I'm sure if someone was completely new to CS1.6 and LJ and started with some fundamentals like these, they would learn to LJ farther much faster than, say, someone who has played eight years of shooting and is now trying to adapt to LJ.

My main point is that proper technique / form exists for everything and I'm sure LJ is no different.

Originally posted by fame

anyone, check it for realdist : http://www.sendspace.com/file/le8y4g
p.s. random 246 bhop block w/o stats :@

246.72

Originally posted by fame

:@ http://img511.imageshack.us/i/kzlongjumps20011.png/

// updt. some sh*t :

http://img593.imageshack.us/i/kzlongjumps20014.png/
http://img805.imageshack.us/i/kzlongjumps20015.png/
http://img843.imageshack.us/i/kzlongjumps20016x.png/

Why do you post and anger yourself about bugged stats?You know it is bugged so what's the point...
Anyway,nice updt screens if clear.

Originally posted by wils

GJ Hunter :))) Really nice done.

Yey thanks. I tried 267 block but when I have stats I don't have edge, I saved only one demo.