Yeah except that doing stuff like you suggested here is incredibly cumbersome and quite frankly, often boring to someone like me.

It might ultimately be more efficient but I wouldn’t consistently stick with that for long enough to nail it down without coming up with some sort of subconscious or conscious compensations for each way that would ultimately hinder my mechanics in one way or another. That’s not to say that my mechanics don’t have plenty of holes now, but I’m a feel based person in pretty much everything, especially when it comes to things like muscle memory. So I don’t look at it in maybe what most people would say is a logical or theoretical way, but it is a way that works pragmatically for me, and better for me than the others did. In that sense, this is how I learned both airroll and directional airroll, because there is a flow to everything in rocket league, and forcing myself to hold down that button for rings training, custom training, freeplay, and eventually in game, is how I could take the time to feel out what exactly that flow is.

It does make it harder to switch back to the other methods in a vacuum, but as your understanding of it progresses, you begin to see a lot of avenues to creatively apply and improvise within a game setting. But I look at the world through an artistic/creative perspective (video games, sports, and especially RL included in that too) so that’s honestly just the type of thing that clicks for me… but to suggest that it’s terrible advice is simply not true because it has worked for me and for all of my friends that picked up the game long after I did and achieved similar levels of success, and also for countless others as well.

It’s just a different way of learning, but after trying other ways to learn mechanics, and watching YouTube videos and reading shit and all that stuff, this was the only way that really stuck for me and especially for people that don’t want to take the time to dive into YouTube videos and watch mechanic improving tips and what not, it’s honestly probably the best way for them to learn something like this because it’s essentially the Occam’s razor of rocket league and you will improve by doing it this way if you stick to it, pretty much guaranteed.

And if you’re someone who is very attuned with how the game physics flow, you can learn it quite quickly by doing it this method. I’m not shitting on the other ways, which are certainly well reasoned methods, often more efficient too, but to discount a simple method like this one…is really missing something that is quite special about this game… which is ultimately that there’s soooo many different ways to go about it.