Made a website some months ago and just slipped it in my signature for anyone to stumble across. I enjoy sparring and have for many years, doubt I'd play Graal without it. I also enjoy helping people and see others improve. I plan to stop sparring for a period of time soon to try and see what I can do with towers, but can still pay attention to this thread.

I've never really sparred on an iDevice so from a technique standpoint, I can't help you too much. Sorry, it just never really interested me. Either way, lots of sparring-related advice is not device-specific. A lot of the advice you'll see here is specific to PC players though.

Here are some of the most significant and useful links on the site:

• Flash Clients - Teaches you some neat tricks with either Flash client to help maximize FPS and minimize your ADD
• Changing Controls - Teaches you how to use a few applications that will allow you to rebind your keys for Graal
• Points System - Helps you understand rating and points if you're interested in sparring for leaderboard positions
• Sparring Facts - Offers a lot of interesting facts about your movement, sword, etc. but please be advised that this data was recorded from PC Graal and some of it could be different on iClassic, nonetheless you know what type of stuff to be aware of

The website itself doesn't have too much content but it's a lot of stuff that I hate having to retype so I just put it out there. I'll update it as regularly as I am inspired to.

If you want to ask questions about sparring-related stuff, just do that here and I will reply. Sparring isn't exactly rocket science so I'm sure it won't get too analytic. If you want me to tell you how you can improve, the best way for me to do that is if you'd record yourself sparring a few times and post the video here.  

Can I join enguard or alumni please!?  

For the visual learners, like myself, can pictures be added to the "Techniques & Styles" section? A simple spar room picture with arrows directing the movement will do just fine. & nice spar guide +Rep  

Ty Thallen! now i can beat Rufus!  

Posted by Smoke

For the visual learners, like myself, can pictures be added to the "Techniques & Styles" section? A simple spar room picture with arrows directing the movement will do just fine. & nice spar guide +Rep

Once I'm able to find a good desktop recorder that doesn't cripple my FPS too much, I'll upload videos and stuff because that seems much easier to work with. I can use annotations and other things to get the point across. Describing how to spar with words is pretty difficult.  

I'll beat you all

#prado4sparringcoach  

Q: Are you really going for 10000-999?  

One day I will have positive spars and laugh at you all  

Posted by Ryan

One day I will have positive spars and laugh at you all

 

Somewhat off topic but I think I once purchased a brand of ham named Thallen. On the picture it had a mountain man with a beard, smiling. Are you a mountain man by chance?  

Posted by Blueh

Somewhat off topic but I think I once purchased a brand of ham named Thallen. On the picture it had a mountain man with a beard, smiling. Are you a mountain man by chance?

He is the mountain.  

Posted by Blueh

Somewhat off topic but I think I once purchased a brand of ham named Thallen. On the picture it had a mountain man with a beard, smiling. Are you a mountain man by chance?

better response then what i get, apparently in other parts of the world, Yami is a popular yogurt brand.  

"Sparring Facts" was actually very helpful. Nice work.  

Posted by Pazx

Q: Are you really going for 10000-999?

I tried and fell way short. I started that at 9000-981 and (obviously) had to spar pretty selectively to end up at 9728-999. I'm fairly relieved though, because it was exhausting and not as much fun as queuing up with no worries. It's not something I'm disappointed over, because I set that bar stupidly high for myself.

Along the way, I also tried to be the first to hit 9000 points but choked and lost at 8998.

Posted by Blueh

Somewhat off topic but I think I once purchased a brand of ham named Thallen. On the picture it had a mountain man with a beard, smiling. Are you a mountain man by chance?

No, and I don't even enjoy ham in comparison to most other meats. Turkey is a lot better. I'm not even sure how I came up with the name I use for Graal right now, but I believe my first three names on Graal were Illuzion, 3RR0R, and Elimentz (in that order). All three of them were terrible.

Posted by DRAN

"Sparring Facts" was actually very helpful. Nice work.

The most important thing to take from that page is probably the bit about directional weaknesses and sword ranges. There are currently several people around the Battle Arena who have come up with the rumor that I use a "longer sword mod" which somehow increases the length of my sword (which is completely impossible within the limits of Graal, unless I coded some sort of weapon injector and added this NPC to myself, somehow). When you get comfortable and learn the angles and strengths per direction, it's a pretty big advantage.  

Posted by Yami

better response then what i get, apparently in other parts of the world, Yami is a popular yogurt brand.

Well, Yami sounds like "Yummy," I guess...