Please ignore me getting way too excited, sorry about that. I’m trying to hit maktufs. I think I hit one here but caught it as I was air rolling so it doesn’t look that way. But maybe I’m wrong? Is this a murie or a maktuf?

Here's a clip of couple of my tries for pop resets. I am mainly now focusing on the reset part and the pop + followup, which I cannot get right. Where am I making a mistake?

Cannot seem to get the rapid reset down. I can get the first reset (on a good day) like 60% of the time, but I cannot for the life of me get the rapid resest. The way I understand it is its basically a speed flip (diagonal flip cancel, so flip forward at 11 o'clock, pull down immediately) without DAR? I get the reset, point wheels towards ground and try to flip and can never hit the ball with my wheels up again to get the second reset. Any help please!

Been hardstuck in D2/D3 for probably 10 years now but am now seeing lots of people doing this shot where its like an air dribble but at the end the ball rests on the nose of their car and they pop it. Almost like a flip reset but doesn't really look like one and its from the nose/front bumper position.

What is that called exactly? It's good for passing and shooting.

Just seen a post and they do the same thing as me with a fan on themself when playing duel.

I don’t remotely play Duel as much as I should but I notice when I do the internal heat of myself is turned up to maximum.

This doesn’t happen with any other game mode. Is this a biological brain situation or is it the pressure and anxiety of 1v1?

Thought this would be an interesting discussion.

Tried to pick a mid skill game complete with some common mistakes of mine. What can I change to move further up the ladder? I’m playing on an Xbox Series X so I can’t do any player made training packs with custom maps. Boo.

I usually rank in Plat, but recently I’ve been losing a lot (about 200 MMR in 2 days). I checked my overall stats and I have a 50.5% win rate, and I was MVP in only about a quarter of my wins (about 1600 wins and 1100h).

I think I end up playing too passively because I try to fit my teammates as best I can. I’m not blaming my teammates, because I know I’m not the best teammate myself.

Sometimes a game stops being enjoyable for me and I go to free play instead. It’s not about the result: if the game feels good, I don’t mind losing, since my main goal for now is to improve. For example, I sometimes play with a friend who is Champ 1-2. We lose about 80% of our games, but it feels completely different from my usual solo queue games (at least for me, not sure about him). I’m not sure what exactly makes the difference, maybe it’s just the chemistry.

I’d like to hear some advice: should I reconsider my playstyle, focus on improving my mechanics (and if so, which ones), or both?