Written in informal style.

I had already purchased Virtua Fighter on PlayStation, but I couldn't even imagine playing with a pad, so I pre-ordered a Flex Strike.

Watching Virtua Fighter streamers' broadcasts kept making me want to play, so I first bought a Hori stick.

My stick arrived yesterday, and when I went into practice mode to try out commands, I was a bit disoriented because there were too many moves, many commands had changed, and the commands didn't register in my eyes...

I thought if I just had a stick, I'd be able to input commands without errors to some extent, but I couldn't...

I also just found out there are no more evade attacks now.. ㅠ

Played arcade mode a few times and command practice a few times, then turned off the game..

For day 2 today, I felt like I needed to check how much ping or lag there would be in actual online matches.
I had seen a post saying to use room matching at low levels, so I poked around, but couldn't join a game..

Still, I felt like I needed to do some kind of online test, so I just played ranked matches.

When I pressed ranked match, I still played a game with a user.

It seemed like a Japanese player of rank 6, and they seemed like a beginner too...

Without any concept of blocking or evading, just ppp pppk, the game ended without either of us using a throw even once.

Not knowing anything and just mashing buttons like playing Eddy in old Tekken, I couldn't even tell if there was lag or input delay.. haha

After a while, I thought this wouldn't work again, so I first watched Shungshungshun's YouTube video and memorized a combo to practice.. Of course, it didn't really work out in an actual match... haha

Then I came back to ranked matches, and perhaps because there weren't many people, it matched me with a level 34 opponent...

Playing with a stick after a long time, my dopamine levels exploded hehehe

I felt good so I recorded it.

Round 1 - Couldn't do anything and lost after only trying a few basic moves.

Round 2 - With an unintentional 전신조고|Tenshin Souko|転身繰胯（てんしんそうこ） 6P+G|6P+G|6P+G throw, I seemed to have an advantage, but not knowing what to do, I habitually tried to input Chouwan, but it didn't come out because I had no drinks.... & failed trying to do the combo I learned.

Round 3 - Truly couldn't do anything and got beaten up.

Round 4 - This time I succeeded with a combo once (No mental capacity to add another jab in the middle..)

Round 5 - After 도완료권|Chouwan Ryouken|挑腕撩拳（ちょうわんりょうけん） (술 ６ 이상)236P|(6 or more drinks) 236P|(酒６以上)236P, the combo failed and I changed into a weird stance, but not knowing how to exit the stance, I got beaten up.. Got lucky at the very end~~!!

Of course, knowing I would definitely lose if I played one more time, I escaped... 

Until now, I'd been watching Shungshungshun's live streams without much thought, but after trying out a few moves myself and watching the videos, they started to make more sense.

I plan to learn more by referring to them, thanks thanks haha

I'm really feeling how much better the world has gotten now, that I can upload things to the internet in such good quality.. hahaha

Thank you.