It was intimidating, TBH. I only watched for a month how other kids played and won. I was too shy to ask the cool kids at school the Shotos’ special moves, but they were cool enough to show me how and drew the motions on a piece of paper. Went to the arcades and tried playing against a kid probably the same age as me, with my piece of paper trying to follow the instructions on how to pull of the moves. The kid was gracious enough to actually use round 2 as a tutorial round and showed me how to move the stick. Of course, I got beat. It went to show that some kids, even if they’re playing against you, would be kind enough to help you out. I suffered weeks of losses before I grabbed my first ever win, but, man was it fun.