The most fun I will ever have sparring is sparring someone like Thallen or AguzoThey don't lag or delay they spar just how I like it, fast paced and offensively, I fell in love with sparring late early 2013 and have been sparring ever since, playing on and off, some days I'll win at least 100 a day and others I'll hop on for half an hour just to que in the mixed room, sparring has changed a lot since I started, With many people choosing to wall and play defensively over having an all out offensive and proper match.

i was sparring for fun and some butthurt graalians started trash talking cuz they were pissed off that I don't take spar that seriously

Sparring Brett and Kevin was the best part of my sparring days.

ya, spar Quiondre too, he spars a lot like that, all of my spars vs. him seem like we are within 5 centimeters of each other juking and turning the entire spar

A lot more fun then sparring someone who is unhitable or walls and won't come near you.

So I decided to get 7k outta the way!
http://i.imgur.com/JrR07pc.png

and..

http://i.imgur.com/JBabZDy.png?1

and a few mini streaks like 6-10

+ beat dante twice yesterday 2-1 with him :D

Nice, keep up the good work.

Long story short, my first half of my wins I went 10000-4500. My second half I went 10000-2500. The extra win-loss of "2769 - 803" in my score was probably when I merged accounts.

I was try-harding spar in 2010 to get 10k asap.
I got 10k-2k.
Sparing was easy because I live in France (delay,lag,sword longer,baguette,blabla...), and iDev only.
Atm, I find gsing really fun and not boring. :smile:

Now people takes it too seriously, and wall spar all day long to don't lose. (They aren't trying to win)

The only real sparrers I like (speaking about mechanics) are a japanese dude who taught me alot and Thallen who's amazing to see sparing even though he always beats me. :(

This is my vision of sparring, sorry.

To conclude, I'll quote a great man who said "Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

So this story is probably from like.. 2005 or something but it's still a pretty good one:

One saturday on Unholy Nation the TTUTC (tag team spar tournament) was being hosted. This was before I was in US. Rufus and I didn't get along. We must have both logged on late or something because everyone found a partner and we were kind of stuck with one another. It was annoying. I didn't like him, he didn't like me and we had to be a team. I remember not talking to him much during it, but round after round we started communicating more, discussing who would go first vs who and so on. We made it into the finals and ended up facing a really good team (I can't remember who). I just remember thinking "yeah this was fun but we're definitely going to lose". We won with a considerable amount of hearts left and became really good friends after that. He asked me to join US and I did. I got much better at sparring and at the social aspect of the game. It was nice.

I beat Thallen once.

I hit my opponent more than they hit me.