I know I can order on amazon cheaper but I like to support the smaller shops. I play leverless but I do plan on making a hitstick soon just gotta find a case I like.
I love this conversation. I was swearing by the bullet top, but I recently switched to a Seimitsu SELS 70 SX for shmups and the shaft doesn’t rotate - completely changes the feel of everything! Bought some ball and bat tops from Arcade Shock and am back to experimenting. The SEL 70 SX gate feels nice for fighters too.
My only recommendation would be to try out stronger spring with battop. I swapped the standard 0.9lb to to 2lb spring in my qanba gravity and it made a world of difference. It just feels so good now.
I think this sparks a bigger discussion i also have about different tops and shaft lengths for different hand sizes. Like in the pc gaming community some people really really obsess over their mouse size and weight while in the FGC up until recently it was either ball or bat only. Capsule top feels nice, but I prefer a non counter sunk version and Ill have to go to etsy for this. I have the red bullet top you showed and I agree for bigger hands its a godsend. I come from the Tekken community and in the Korean lever market is I would think even smaller cause K levers are mostly for Tekken but I pray for the day we can order our levers to our specs.
Kinda sounds like you were gripping the ball top like a bat top. Trying holding the stick like a wine glass, that's the most comfortable position to use the ball tops in.
I used this exact grip with my ball-top and I now have tendonitis in the webbing of my thumb after about a week of heavy-play. I'm definitely going to try a bat-top and/or a longer shaft. Maybe I did it wrong or have bad genetics, but damn, I've never had this problem even on pad.
@@ActBreaker after holding it like a wine glass? you're definitely doing something wrong. your thumb shouldn't even be activated with the grip im mentioning.
@@TheJackson4eva Ah, maybe it's because there's more than one way to hold a wine glass 😅I'm holding the ball with my thumb, fore-finger, and middle-finger; palm down. You must mean palm up with the lever between the fingers. I can't seem to get comfortable that way. Could you describe it in more detail? Do I have to move my whole arm to move it with the wine-glass grip? Or am I just doing a sort of grasping motion? A video is really worth a bazillion words haha
Makes sense it hurts with the wine glass technique. For orthopedic reasons, the more neutral your wrists are the less pain you’ll experience after long or extraneous use. Neutral position is your hands facing completely vertical like palms facing inwards towards each other and knuckles facing away from you. That’s why all the best orthopedic keyboards are slanted to relieve pain and tension (especially for coders) instead of turning your wrists completely inwards palms facing down. Same logic would apply to the wine glass technique because you’d be turning your wrist completely outwards with palms facing up. Technically the most orthopedic set up for a fight stick would be a stick tall enough to keep your wrist as neutral as possible and the buttons completely vertical for your right hand! Or a hit box with a vertical portion with movement buttons for your left hand and the second portion with all other buttons on your right hand, but that will never happen 😂
Also heads up I got the mesh ball top. I bought it because I thought it was textured but it’s just a pattern on the inside, smooth as a typical ball. Looks dope tho
Nice video dude. Keep grinding and learning. I found the info helpful. Would like a video on the vendors you have used, what are your go tos for different parts, etc. Maybe something on the resources that are out there to help newbies. Anyway thanks!
Nice video. I'm also not into ball tops and currently looking to get a bullet top. The golden lever one looks insanely nice and that might be the one i'm going with. Was looking to find information on compatibility on that.
I like the sincerity vibe you give! Your mod tips are also pretty awesome and easy to understand!
I know I can order on amazon cheaper but I like to support the smaller shops. I play leverless but I do plan on making a hitstick soon just gotta find a case I like.
I love this conversation. I was swearing by the bullet top, but I recently switched to a Seimitsu SELS 70 SX for shmups and the shaft doesn’t rotate - completely changes the feel of everything! Bought some ball and bat tops from Arcade Shock and am back to experimenting. The SEL 70 SX gate feels nice for fighters too.
My only recommendation would be to try out stronger spring with battop. I swapped the standard 0.9lb to to 2lb spring in my qanba gravity and it made a world of difference. It just feels so good now.
I think this sparks a bigger discussion i also have about different tops and shaft lengths for different hand sizes. Like in the pc gaming community some people really really obsess over their mouse size and weight while in the FGC up until recently it was either ball or bat only. Capsule top feels nice, but I prefer a non counter sunk version and Ill have to go to etsy for this. I have the red bullet top you showed and I agree for bigger hands its a godsend. I come from the Tekken community and in the Korean lever market is I would think even smaller cause K levers are mostly for Tekken but I pray for the day we can order our levers to our specs.
Kinda sounds like you were gripping the ball top like a bat top. Trying holding the stick like a wine glass, that's the most comfortable position to use the ball tops in.
Yeah more then likely I was. I'll have to give it a shot. Thank you.
I used this exact grip with my ball-top and I now have tendonitis in the webbing of my thumb after about a week of heavy-play. I'm definitely going to try a bat-top and/or a longer shaft. Maybe I did it wrong or have bad genetics, but damn, I've never had this problem even on pad.
@@ActBreaker after holding it like a wine glass? you're definitely doing something wrong. your thumb shouldn't even be activated with the grip im mentioning.
@@TheJackson4eva Ah, maybe it's because there's more than one way to hold a wine glass 😅I'm holding the ball with my thumb, fore-finger, and middle-finger; palm down. You must mean palm up with the lever between the fingers. I can't seem to get comfortable that way. Could you describe it in more detail? Do I have to move my whole arm to move it with the wine-glass grip? Or am I just doing a sort of grasping motion? A video is really worth a bazillion words haha
Makes sense it hurts with the wine glass technique. For orthopedic reasons, the more neutral your wrists are the less pain you’ll experience after long or extraneous use. Neutral position is your hands facing completely vertical like palms facing inwards towards each other and knuckles facing away from you. That’s why all the best orthopedic keyboards are slanted to relieve pain and tension (especially for coders) instead of turning your wrists completely inwards palms facing down. Same logic would apply to the wine glass technique because you’d be turning your wrist completely outwards with palms facing up. Technically the most orthopedic set up for a fight stick would be a stick tall enough to keep your wrist as neutral as possible and the buttons completely vertical for your right hand! Or a hit box with a vertical portion with movement buttons for your left hand and the second portion with all other buttons on your right hand, but that will never happen 😂
I love the bat tops because I got pretty big hands
Also heads up I got the mesh ball top. I bought it because I thought it was textured but it’s just a pattern on the inside, smooth as a typical ball. Looks dope tho
Nice video dude. Keep grinding and learning. I found the info helpful.
Would like a video on the vendors you have used, what are your go tos for different parts, etc.
Maybe something on the resources that are out there to help newbies.
Anyway thanks!
I’ve been using ball top, but after playing street fighter 2 on a cabinet recently, I realized I prefer bat top
dig the video!
Thank you so much.
Nice video. I'm also not into ball tops and currently looking to get a bullet top. The golden lever one looks insanely nice and that might be the one i'm going with. Was looking to find information on compatibility on that.
Ball top all the way!!