I finally had the chance to watch a run live and feel really silly haha~! The strat that's already there is indeed way faster

I accidentally did this while playing. I don't know if it's consistent or not. Thought someone would be able to use it. 🙂

Shiro says that he does not like the use of checkpoints very much. Resetting the stage in the middle is not what he imagines a Full-game run to be (although using a checkpoint as a result of dying or retrying is okay, it is better not to use it as an actual strategy).
He also says it would be worthwhile to study the use of checkpoints as a strategy, so he proposes these points:
1. Make this a new variable (instead of a new category I'm assuming?) just like "Nurse's shoe", "toilet 1", etc.
2. Separate the categories and make it a new category altogether
Shiro thinks 1 is better. The reason being because it seems that there isn't much of a differences in the route even if you use checkpoints or not, to it's worthwhile to include it as a variable rather than a new category.

He says he has a questionnaire up on Twitter right now ( https://twitter.com/dawn_black_wolf/status/945972876796051456 ) that you can vote on. He says of the 6 votes, 3 are for using checkpoints, two are opposed to using checkpoints, and one had no answer or to use something else.

Shiroさん、ご意見をありがとうございます。私の一つの心配ことは新しいルートのことができれば、カテゴリーが多すぎになります。「チェックポイントを使うかどうかでそれほど大きな差はないと考えられることから，一緒に比較する価値があると思うためです．」そうなんですね。違うことがあまりないですから同じカテゴリーで大丈夫だと思います。Akheonさんと一緒に話してもいいと思いますね。
Twitterで私は新しいカテゴリーを追加しないように投票しましたが多分新しいVariableを追加することは良い妥協点ですね。

This link is to our community discord! https://discord.gg/ctkbqdq

These are actually some pretty incredible finds. Thank you so much for all of the effort put into finding these!
Now the only thing we need to do is find out, not necessarily how to clip out of bounds, but just enough to clip inside areas that are otherwise just temporarily blocked off in early missions. Is there any way to do that with the shout gliding technique? I read your post on shout gliding and would think that if you could fly up into the air that you could get over certain walls? I don't know if it's possible seeing as I haven't tried it myself, but it sounds possible.

I honestly don't see anything wrong with using this. I, for one, use a checkpoint on Reiko Day 1 02:00 in the office so that I can have maximum health before going to the gym (since you're going so fast here, you'll die if you get shot by the gunman again). I honestly don't have any problems using this specific abuse, but I'm also trying to picture this from a Japanese speedrun community perspective as well, as their rules about RTA are somewhat different from our own.

Shiroさん、チェックポイントを使うことについてどう思いますか？私とAkheonさんは問題ないみたいですが日本のRTAルールはちょっと違いますよね。それからShiroさんの意見知りたいんです。私はチェックポイント使いたいと思いますがShiroさんよろしいでしょうか。私は高遠玲子の最初のレベルにチェックポイントもう使いますが本当に大丈夫ですか。意見待っております。ありがとうございます。

I think it would be a great idea to use it. I don't see the need for adding another category just for using checkpoint abuse. I see it as sort of a minor thing to use in order to gain more time, so I don't think a new category is necessary. What timesaves did you find using checkpoint abuse?