Shortassassin: http://media.putfile.com/vs-Onyx

onyx-o7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hIYQU23Le4
http://media.putfile.com/Ladder--Match-Ony...s-ShortAssassin

Voting ends on 23rd July.

Very nice combo ShortAssassin!. Just to let you know voters, the voting ends in 5 days. So vote wisely!

Shortass. I thought his was more complex

Onyx, his had more variety and I just liked it more. You're really making some quick progress dude :thumb:

Thanks man.! :lol:

As platy said you are making fantastic progress dude! I'm really impressed with your combo, you had a lot of new material in it. The smoothness could have been better and the ending didn't have much closure but other than that well done :clap:

nulled, both appealed to me in different ways.... like'd 'em both....

onyx... i dunno why but your's never feel like combos to me.. just like alot of tricks put together.... like "3 trick minicombo, 3 trick minicombo, 3 trick minicombo" and its over... they dont really feel like they're all part of one...

BUT, the 3 trick minicombos were fairly impressive, enough for me to null

Yeah, I agree with Strat, if you can just straighten out some of the linkages you'll be making great combos in no time.

So many unexplained votes :(

I voted for Onyx... largely in part because your clip was re-used Short... its nt technichally against the rules, but its a pet-peeve of mine. If you're gonna commit to do something, the least you can do is actually do it, instead of re-using a clip.

That said, short's combo was very strong. Good variety, linkage, interesting tricks... not too shabby, actually reminds me of my spinning a bit. Other than that, it might have been a little short... had you showcsed a bit more it might have gotten better difficulty/variety, but of course it could have just ended up as spam. So perhaps not a bad choce in the end...

Onyx's combo was strong in different ways. I felt it was a bit harder, largely due to the double TA. Its hard to say about smoothness because he was really smooth in some linkings and then like every 3 tricks or so, would have a crappy link, like strat said. My suggestion would be to just freestyle random tricks more often, rather than focussing on learning new things, for a few days at least. Longer combos too...

Heh, sorry Eburt. Because the deadlines were so close together for the Noob collab and this battle I planned on using the same combo. It wasn't a matter of not wanting to film for this or lacking commitment, I just planned ahead of time to use the same vid.

Edit: I have that problem you mentioned with trying to lengthen combos. If I try to make them too long I feel like I start spamming tricks, but if I try to keep from spamming the combo ends up too short lol. Guess I need a larger trick variety. Thanks for taking the time to comment :).

Eh, thats fine... lots of people have done it, just really kinda annoys me is all. Probably woulda been a null, but that threw it in his favor for me. BTW, nice combos both of you... you newer guys learn so damned fast...

Edit: And your welcome for the comment, hope it helps.

Onyx is learning really fast. He showcased 2 new mini combos in this video and they were smooth too. I'm doing alright, but I still feel like I recycle the same tricks in every combo. As I do more videos I think people will start to notice. Onyx definitely has a bright future ahead of him though.

I tried learning new tricks. The new tricks that I learned yesterday was the bak->midbak. So I had to master that part for my combo. :lol: Also I wanted to try something new, like I said the baks were that tricks I learned yesterday so I added that on the combo. Still have to learn the "bakfall" which hard for me, I can't even do the ring bak. But any who, I shall practice on linkage then.

I voted for ShortAssassin because this is a battle and in a battle, whoever has the higher technical difficulty wins IMO. E, you need to work on your ending. It looked hi-jacked. While Onyx had a MUCH more eye-appealing combo, his linking wasn't all that good. Based on technicality, I would have to go with Short. Now, take this advice and get to working on better linkings and make a longer combo. If you continue to use the same minicombos, you will drop in the ladder (no pun intended).

Good job to both of you! :thumb:

that makes no sense, you're saying the only criteria for judging a battle is difficulty, clearly wrong.

Eh, wrong choice of words from me. Of course, linking, tempo, and variety matter too. I didn't know a single word that would group all those things together.

nulled. neither felt long enough to be a real combo and short's ending felt like he was about to do another trick but knew he wouldn't land it so just stopped.

the time limit is like 15 seconds so...

I voted for Short cuz his smoothness just blew Onyx away :P
Not that I'm saying Onyx's vid was completely bad, in fact I thought it was pretty close with Onyx's complex combo against Short's nicely smooth but short combo. But Short took my vote with smoothness :P

Shortassassin wins 23 - 14.

OKay thanks for the match. Seems like I have to learn alot of stuff. Going to practice my linking then thanks again for the great battle Shortassassin! Your cool.!

Thanks Onyx, keep up the good work. In a month you'd kick my ass if we battled again, you improve so quickly.

I hope so :lol: Probably you'll be too!! B)

y dont u guys schedule a rematch one month from now it would be fun to watch and to see how much you two have improve :P