(possible!) solution of getting your distance back

i do the opposite and look down when i lj.
Friend of mine looks up in the sky like that, maybe not that much but close to it.
Reason it might help is because you get really straight strafes

actually m_yaw helps alot too :)

best strafes are the horizontal ones.
m_yaw does that perfectly, but you can't overuse it, since its not comfortable to view-look anymore. But setting a higher value than normal is helping indeed.
If you guys knew how protoN was playing back in 2010-2011, you would have seen how his bhop looked perfect, and WAS perfect. I never wanted to give this "secret" away, even though some already know it, but I just may make a "tutorial" since its affects your sensitivity.

its mostly for people that can't/don't strafe horizontaly (aka deathclaw) ... its about the game and its "mechanics". If you already own strafing, this won't do any good.
I'm playing with m_yaw since 2010 and I just tried yesturday to play with the default value of it. From 7strafes ~80-90 sync, I've downgraded to ~50-60.
I'm not saying it's MINDBLOWING or helps you that much that it will become illegal ... it just helps in some situations.

What value should you set the m_yaw too? I might just try it out and see if it will help anything.

another thing this might help with is to get back the feeling of when to duck, i found out that it's why my stats have been wonky lately, because i strafe too fast thinking i need to duck early.

if you've played a HL1/HL2 engine game competitively chances are you've seen loads of stuff about sensitivity and these values come up in conversation from time to time. i will explain the facts i know about them for you

some info on the values themselves:
m_yaw is the sensitivity of your mouse movement along the x-axis...
m_pitch along y-axis

these m_pitch/m_yaw/sensitivity values operate in the same way across all your hl1 and source engine games

in-game sensitivity is something of a combination of these two settings, which is just an easier value for players to use. so doubling your m_pitch and m_yaw values is [exactly] the same as doubling your in-game sensitivity value and not touching m_yaw/m_pitch

m_yaw is most commonly changed by players because it has the most impact, if you are a player who were to play on a stretched 4:3 resolution such as 1024x768 on your 24" monitor for example, it's obvious 1024 at its new, stretched value of 1920, has changed the most compared to 768 becoming 1080, so if you were to create a perfect circle with your sens it would alter visually into something like this:



So to get back to the same visual circle people might mess around with the m_yaw/m_pitch values if they don't wanna re-train their muscle memory

possible application in kz:
if you recorded an lj where your strafes are small and perfectly horizontal, then changed m_yaw to a higher value you would get different lj stats, like higher gain/max speed (and changing m_pitch would have absolutely no effect here)
i believe there is an optimal speed of pixels/sec that will result in maximum speed gained in the engine
let's say there is a player who has some fast diagonal strafes and low sensitivity, when doing 8+ strafes you might be falling short of this optimal speed so if you upped m_yaw a bit you could improve your distance.

tl;dr In reality though you can just alter the way you are moving the mouse IRL and achieve the same result.

if you would like to mess around just note default values are 0.022 for both and use a calculator like this one to fully understand the speed of your x-axis value: http://www.notalent.org/sensitivity/sensitivity.htm so that you can recreate your sens if you want with different m_yaw values.
(if you use raw that means your windows multiplier is unchanged at 1.0)