Sarah's Neck Cut Slash.. How?

Hey guys, I've been an DIE-HARD VF player (own every VF on every console it's been released on, All I'm missing are all the CG portrait discs, and VF Animation for my Game Gear) since 1996, and been a die-hard Sarah player since 1997, and I have never encountered a move this tough to pull off. I can only pull it off (after going into Flamingo, then doing the Hell Sword), by doing the Heel Sword, then pressing P+G (R1) as fast and as rapidly as I can. Even then, it's always hit and miss. I've mastered almost all her moves (got the Gatling Kick beat down for the most part, need to work on that), but this one is driving me insane! I feel that I'm an Intermediate Sarah player for the most part, but this is giving me lingering doubts as to whether or not I am. Sorry for that emotional bit, but I've been living and breathing VF for seven years now, and I take pride in my skill with Sarah.

 

Hi
the move isn't that hard to do once you know the timing and other chars have moves similar to this such as goh and aoi.I understand you're using a pad as well?I only ever use a stick now and I can highly reccomend getting one.

Anyway what you're doing is a hit-throw.Basically ( I think ) you have 17-19 frames ( 1 frame = 1/60th of a second ) after the hit makes contact ( hit or guard ) to enter the throw command ie +.Its very similar in feel to evo Akiras move.It may help you to go into training and slow things down to work out the actual speed you need to do it with but when you do it it should feel like a single motion, ie NOT like a hit ...then a throw.Hope this is helpful to you.

If you're interested , when I used a pad I used
cross=
square=
triangle=
circle=nothing
after a while so I didn't rely on shoulder buttons.That was a loooong time ago like I said and I'm a dedicated Hori man now /versus/images/graemlins/smile.gif.