Absolutely. Honestly playing a fighting game, competitively or otherwise, is kind of a contradiction in the way fitness or training in a sport is I think.
You can and should look to the community for resources and tech/matchup knowledge and you should play to win, but one of the things you have to keep in mind is to stop comparing yourself to other people who have been doing this a lifetime and to see the small victories as you level up.
Maybe you lost the set but did you antiair your opponent successfully? That's a Victory. Did you antiair them every time to the point they got scared to jump? That's a huge victory. Did you punish an unsafe string/move so badly they stopped throwing it out casually? Hell yeah, you're getting stronger!!!!
Once you get past a certain threshold and you start seeing the game as it's actually played at a high level it becomes some of the most rewarding fun you can have in gaming imo.
Absolutely. Honestly playing a fighting game, competitively or otherwise, is kind of a contradiction in the way fitness or training in a sport is I think.
You can and should look to the community for resources and tech/matchup knowledge and you should play to win, but one of the things you have to keep in mind is to stop comparing yourself to other people who have been doing this a lifetime and to see the small victories as you level up.
Maybe you lost the set but did you antiair your opponent successfully? That's a Victory. Did you antiair them every time to the point they got scared to jump? That's a huge victory. Did you punish an unsafe string/move so badly they stopped throwing it out casually? Hell yeah, you're getting stronger!!!!
Once you get past a certain threshold and you start seeing the game as it's actually played at a high level it becomes some of the most rewarding fun you can have in gaming imo.