Hey y'all, I have some serious troubles with performing the one and only FlagPole Glitch. I know this is a very hard trick, but in nearly 10 hours of total practice time in 1-1, I managed to perform it only once. And I'm not a new player at all.

Can somebody give me once and for all the good inputs after exiting the pipe in 1-1, please ?

Maybe the one I use are incorrect, but if they're not, I can't understant how to perform it as often as others do, even with a lot of practice.

1-1 Flagpole Glitch (DISCLAIMER: This is not practical to add to a run until trying for roughly a low 4:57) See the below youtube video for full tutorial...

You must land on the 3rd block from the top on the first pixel while not holding "B" - on the first frame with mario in the "running" animation (as opposed to the jump/falling animation), you hold only right (not "A" or "B"), then for exactly the next 2 frames, hold "B", then do a full jump on the 3rd frame (as shown). Hold all inputs until the jump is completed. By the time you reach the flagpole block, you will need to release "A" and "B", and hold "left" for exactly 3 frames (as shown), then jump on the 4th frame. If you do the first "jump" half of the trick correctly, you will clip into the block assuming you do a full jump, even if you mess up the "second" part. If you do not clip into the block, it means you messed up the jump.

Frame counter will obviously be different depending on your pace - as long as you hit the first pixel on the block, it doesn't matter if you do a full or partial jump. In order to "save" the framerule, you will need to be 4 frames from perfect on the coin pipe section, which means that some "380"s will not be fast enough to save the rule. Credit to runner "Sockfolder" for finding out exact inputs for an RTA run.

25% with slowdowns

50% no slowdown

Other GIF tutorial explanations and videos can be found HERE --> https://www.speedrun.com/smb1/thread/uz8f3

But the short of it is... it's really really really hard. Despite knowing HOW to get it, I have literally never gotten it in real time. I've only ever gotten it very slowed down. It takes tens of hours of practice to get somewhat consistent at it... and HUNDREDS of hours to get good at it.

It's definitely a LAST trick to add to your arsenal for a run, unless you're just doing it for fun, in which case go for it =)

Wait a minute... You're telling me that you performed this trick once after 10 hours of grinding without actually knowing how to do it? In that case that's amazing really

Like Darpey said, FPG is not really a necessary trick to add until you're going for a low 457, but if you want to practice it then practice it. I also found that grinding something as hard as FPG really requires you to use your brain power and really engages you as you constantly have mistakes to fix. My tips are: Watch the video to get the road map of what you generally want to do. From there, pull up your game and press the buttons the way you think it should be done. Use the feedback you get from your attempts to improve your next attempt. Did you jump early? Late? Press left too much? etc. The first time I started doing this trick in runs, I was 1% consistent, and this was after probably around 10+ hours, I don't exactly remember. Though a couple days later I was more like 2-5% kind of thing. FPG is my most practiced trick, I have grinded it for months and for many hours to get more consistent, and I have found that when I have tried to learn other hard tricks, it was much much easier because I had learned how to practice hard tricks and improve and actually practice.

wait just adjust from your mistakes in practice, and you will get consistent.