WTF is CS:GO Surfing?

#shorts #gaming #csgo
Have you ever seensomeone surf in CS:GO and thought: ‘what the f@#$ is that?’
Written and hosted by: Dimitri Pascaluta
Edited by: Sam Gore
Produced by: Bernard Malijan, Kai Medalla, and Miles Hackett
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[@liskus763]

After 10 hours of surfing in total my movement improved a lot.

[@milestovar4983]

we’ll actually that’s because

[@ole7492]

@@milestovar4983 lmao

[@Boogerfart67]

touch grass mon ami☠️

[@Schwiwi]

​@@Boogerfart67 10 hours in total is nothing

[@nedegan1]

@@Schwiwifr

[@jandelmalupit3956]

I think surfing can really improve your muscle memory for strafing.

[@henryhardfoot]

Agree. Has for me

[@ThreeDings]

if u wanna be good in surf you have to have crazy smooth strafes

[@harz632]

Yes, a vital skill if you want ot play in higher skill levels as many strong spots or rotates require a strafe jump. as a example: Jumping from van to apartments on b mirage or cache, jumping from middle to boost.

[@graham9345]

kz is 1000x better for movement that translates to the game itself surf is more of a fun game mode

[@aiuniverse]

Yes, but dont expect game mechanic knowledge from guy (short maker) that sucks at game

[@Mariowned]

Yooo! Thanks for the shout-out! Just to clarify, surfing has always existed. I just made the first maps dedicated to it.

[@billy4301]

The man himself!

[@Mariowned]

@@billy4301 Hey, Billy!

[@Stikmanas]

you're a legend man, what's your favorite map from the ones you made?

[@Mariowned]

@Dėdė Čerdachas thank you, Dėdė! That's such a tough question. I would have to say my csgo surf_sodium might take the number 1 spot because it was the first level design I was ever commissioned to make. I've dreamed of making a living from my own art since I was 14. Still working hard to make that happen, but that was the moment that made me feel it was actually possible.

[@ViiiViiiViiiViii]

Active after 16 years, woah

[@MatthewIrizarry-4]

Surfing ABSOLUTELY improves your movement and control of your character

[@yurilopes420]

this is what happens when you have these brainless drones doing gaming videos when they haven't played anything a day in their life "nah it's useless, doesn't improve your movement at all" - 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@vangledosh]

It helps most with timing air strafes and knowing how to be smooth with air strafes, but KZ and bhop will always help movement more as it's applicable to actual CS games

[@qazwsx6340]

it definitely has less applications than kz or bhop to be fair. think having a few hours in surf will help your movement in an actual cs2 game, but getting pro at surf won't really help it that much more

[@HundredSlot]

It's addicting asf. My friends were mad at me for not joining in bcs i spend too much time of surfing

[@acid1747]

Too real

[@M3Busssin]

Weed DrumnBass music + surfing is best combo 🏄‍♂️

[@Iron770]

1500 hours on CSGO, 1000 of that surfing. I still suck

[@Eutropia0]

You should shoot man!!

[@csalvo3653]

It saved me when i was at my lowest, i was feeling rly numb and every game was just boring, i would boot one up and close it because I didn’t feel like playing them and there was also some irl shit happening in my life. Surfing was always something i did though, it never got boring for me. The perfect thing to do when you feel bad, put on some music, talk to some random guys in the server. It helped me a lot and im thankful that it exists.

[@Dragosmom.]

Good shit m8. You're a legend.

[@jamesrosewell9081]

No wonder Leafy always played surfing maps in his commentary videos (even if it was just footage he put in post)

[@NotNeinNeon]

Bro I always held w and wondered why it ain't work 😂

[@FaustsDemon]

Same lol. Guess i will try it cs2

[@natethenotsogreat8349]

If it’s anything like titanfall holding forward actually gives you a speed limit so strafing not only gives you speed but also bypasses that speed limit

[@gametheus1306]

Same lmao guess I’m boutta try again

[@gordon_freeman2542]

Source engine physics being the same buggy mess since 2002.

[@Askemanden]

@@gordon_freeman2542 Bro that’s not a bug… That’s just how the physics work

[@legopro1915]

Never press W **learning how to rocket jump in TF2**

[@furkangulsoy_]

That isn't just in surf and rocket jump you wouldn't wanna hold w in every movement mod (surf , bhop , kz).

[@cewla3348]

@@furkangulsoy_ well, rocket jumping in tf2 is possibly the most known one!

[@furkangulsoy_]

@@cewla3348 I dont think so

[@nhensonbass]

“Does it improve your movement? eh.” Truly spoken like someone with poor movement lmfao

[@whoisAPT38]

Ain’t no way someone is out there telling the homies “Ayo I’ll be on in 20 mins, just gotta practice some csgo surf for my movement”

[@yannixk.3294]

youve never Tried surfing, come Back after 300 hours practicing when you maby can surf averagely. im Solid w surfing after 2k hours But U Mostly Played Combat surf No spread

[@miniro-eh1up]

@@yannixk.3294 what servers are u usually on? Been trying to find active csurf servers but the ones i used to be on have died out

[@yannixk.3294]

@@miniro-eh1up i only got era and pelikrissi or Something along that right now, not playing actively. there is a excel doc with active and closed combat surf servers

[@Dog_On_Youtube]

Bro took "you were an accident" insult to a whole new level 💀

[@ryuzxa]

Ah yes, the KZbin commentary starter pack

[@froggylbc11]

*insert LeafyIsHere clip

[@darrincheng771]

It absolutely improves movement, as it gives you a better idea on how the deceleration vectors work in source

[@wowitsmick]

I’ve done this in VR, super fun

[@GTkoze]

Added to my bucket list

[@Maxsmack]

@@GTkoze same. how many years till full dive tech in your opinion. 30 40 60. we'll both probably be alive till then if we don't blow ourselves to pieces

[@markejden5301]

In what game?

[@llava2173]

After surfing for so many hours your movement just starts to form to that and now hopping through servers feels natural

[@kazuhikoriku]

Dimitir explaining a thing I've done since 2006 is weird

[@StyxIris]

Every commentary channel back in the day:

[@Innetna]

I hope this video makes more people try surfing :) Its really fun and once you get good enough to compete for SR's it becomes alot of fun

[@findmi2708]

Phoon: hold my guns and ill show you how movements works

[@cobaltbluu861]

Surfing also created bunny hopping in min raft and Valorant and almost any 1st person shooter

[@danyoffcs]

In my opinion, surfing helps with how you feel your mouse and coordination of your mouse movement in game. However to improve movement you just need to learn how to strafe into angles properly

[@deuzvolt2592]

"no barrac i think Joe didn't take his medicine today."

[@GladiatorSeekr]

"Does it help your movements?.. No" Me who always surf in overpass in order to win over water 🗿

[@Repster]

SURF

[@rraaiin]

REPSTER

[@ethhics]

REPSTER

[@SLimGR1m42]

You can learn via community servers, they are awesome. I was taught by some European kid at 4am. The people on community servers are always fun to talk to. I hope they keep community servers in CS2...

[@jacquesschrap8932]

Surf_Ski2 on Cs 1.6 & CsCz were my entire childhood

[@iTalickChicken]

Also dont forget to click F everytime animation of showing knife ends

[@Skytropilis]

After having surfed and played kz maps throughout the different cs games I can promise you I hit almost 80% of my bhops when I play csgo matchmaking

[@BeyondHex]

It really depends on the player if it helps with movement a silver player, for example, can learn to peek with a/d instead of w so on low elo, it can techhically help with movement

[@ScytheyFPS]

"does it help your movement?" - I instantly think of flights.

[@Averdive]

Of course he is named mario😂

[@davidkiarray8205]

oh no people are growing up playing games but without surfing

[@natgobrrOW]

i literally play csgo just for this, i havent been in a match for so long

[@edwardfischer2628]

bro, surfing is a really good way to improve your movement

[@m1406ka]

On tf2 this actually does help if you wanna jump around by blowing up the ground right bellow and slightly behind you

[@TheDillchill]

Honestly surfing helps movement with crosshair precision at least at the higher levels, having clean strafes always helps.

[@dein248]

Congratulations you scrolled enough to discover the lore behind the KZbin Shorts background gameplay

[@Wfgming-ko3wn]

I decided to hop into a surf map blindly last week and it took me 2 hours to realize holding w was the reason I couldn't strafe. Still trying to get the "gaining enough speed to launch" part down.

[@OriginalHuchang]

Oh God the amount of hours I’ve put in surfing back in the day. Was my favorite to play in source.

[@mykuronekocantbethiscute]

Admin: he just doing sideways

[@idk-fh3hk]

Same applies to Bunny hopping / bhop in cs u never wanna bhop with w , you always use A or D and move your camera in the respective order , best way to do it is move your camera in a infinity shaped loop and pressing A or D when you look in the respective direction, but it also requieres crouch and space, but it's a lot of fun :D

[@signeCS]

You can bhop with w though, it's just not the most common way of doing it

[@idk-fh3hk]

@@signeCS Fair point , but from my experience i found the A and D method easier ^^

[@yannixk.3294]

or when you use +left/right and w and s to make really odd bhops Like going backwards in circles is fun

[@sleepyhead2982]

And thus a KZbin short background was born

[@therealsovietbear2700]

Now that explains why I never got it. It's the opposite in TF2 where I learned rocket jumping. You're supposed to hold W and never press a or d

[@leepicrandomaa]

This reminds me of 2016 - 2018 commentary channel

[@onomi-]

“Only strafe sideways” BASED ANGLE SURFERS RISE UP 💪💯💯

[@nickblake8767]

Actually surfing dates as far back as quake, where there were "slide maps", huge downward slopes for you to bhop down, and it can he assumed that people started making surf maps when they were inspired by slide maps

[@pankkinf]

Team fortress 2 makes surfing a lot more useful with the big maps and chaotic gameplay

[@joelkarlsson3144]

This is like the first thing new players should always do, spend a ton of hours in surf maps, preferably the surf maps where you can also shoot and kill eachother, it’s the best place to learn and improve

[@Just_Drepper]

As a child I've been told to hold either A or D and spam click W to surf. It was the biggest lie I've ever heard in my life

[@myztklk3v]

yeah I would have to disagree about surfing not helping movement. It helps you understand how you gain speed strafe jumping and how to strafe jump in general.

[@IndirectHydrox]

FINALLY I know wtf the seemingly aimless (and also completely unrelated to anything being said)gameplay footage I always see in commentary-type YT videos! Thank you.

[@zancrow2469]

When i encounter this type of obstacle in a zombie escape mod map, i just give up kekw

[@AndGoatz04]

It's also got momentum [going down gives speed, while up takes speed, much like skating in a sense]

[@weirdman5092]

A little tip for tf2 solider mains, when rocket jumping, you can use this same method

[@questionable_live]

Surfing actually gets you used to CSGO physics engine especially while jumping around. You start to realize that strafing boosts your momentum while other movement keys kill your momentum.

[@zegalex]

I'm scared of people who doesn't know this.

[@TH3H3LLR41S3R]

It's just like rocket jumping for you tf2 players as rollouts are directly connected and the actual strafing needed is almost identical to that.

[@hadinalfitrah7760]

Ah yes, the classics surf who play CSGO nowadays don't know about this except the veteran ones who converted from old CS game.

[@jacquesschrap8932]

You can surf with W & S but you're doing it essentially blind learning the maps paths and timings, with S key you can see a little but W key surfing you're essentially looking directly into the ramps & using S to counter strafe in air If you learn how to do standard A & D surfing and can master W & S surfing your movement on competitive matches is definitely enhanced being able to make easy jumps and transitions.

[@lucid1060]

It helps movement after surfing and kz for awhile I was able to do window jump and jump the the crouch spot nest for mirage

[@pilezuto1257]

Bro was the isaac newton of cs:go surfing.

[@ethhics]

I have spent over 1.3k hours surfing, I do not regret one second of it and I cannot see myself ever stopping for the foreseeable future

[@ofen3203]

its a huge waste of time. sogshit gamemode never gonna play it.

[@OnurOzalp-personal]

Is there a public server you prefer? I want to start surfing.

[@NOU-iw3gb]

​@@OnurOzalp-personal st type surf in community search bar

[@ethhics]

@@OnurOzalp-personal I surf on Counter Strike Source KSF server

[@OnurOzalp-personal]

@@ethhics tyty

[@baadach3752]

bro surf has made me movement S tier 💀 i have played it a good amount though, but js it has helped improve strafes and stuff in game

[@toxic_val]

Ain't no way you're older than 8 if you don't know what surfing is

[@geronimoguy111]

All I think whenever I see surfing is "Take a shower"

[@trentdd15]

Everyone already mentioned it but surfing definitely helps movement. Strafing is paramount in source games and even other game titles outside of cs.

[@aerolitecm]

Moving your mouse towards the ramp gives you more height and away gives you more speed. On curved ramps you wana tap a or d into it to attach to it and then hold the movement key for the direction it curves. For example on a ramp that curves right, you tap a to board the ramp and then hold d to stay on it. You should always try to land at the top of a ramp so you gain more speed while sliding down, faster you flick at the end, the more height you get at the cost of speed

[@TideRobinson-if6pf]

Never thought it would need to be explained

[@LogicalHats]

It's Trimping but you don't have a force that gives you force to get height so you trimp with the same speed and it looks like surfing.

[@Aeroilite]

Surfing will improve movement no doubt. Smoother strafes and transitions taught in surfing helps bhopping in comp tons

[@KhaziirEverflight]

I miss the days of CS:S with the surf servers where you could level all sorts of stuff like invisobility and so on up and basicaly still had to play team versus team, and the surf was mostly a way of tramsportation to small arena type map areas... that ahit was my jam for years. sadly i can't find any server that dies that anymore...

[@WolfeB_99]

Movement is VERY important in cs.

[@AnnoyD]

Just hold your directional keys in a way that it goes into the wall. If you're facing the wall, hold w. If you're facing away from the wall, hold s.

[@Carcharodon]

Commentary channels try not to use csgo surfing gameplay (challenge)

[@g80gzt]

Surf maps also run with better air acceleration than the default game, which is why when you boot up a strafe map by yourself, you just peter out into a fall.

[@liamsz]

It does help your movement in other games that have air strafing, such as Titanfall or Apex

[@potato.1593]

i surf on overpass and it help me survive the c4 damage on the overpass

[@Shxrpnesss]

bhop is just as skillful and takes a ton of mechanics, the best world records are truly inexplicable to most people

[@glorygiraffe6317]

I learned serving in 1.6 surf ski 2 but spent over 500 hours in the rebel resistence map in css

[@idiotboxs]

Another Reminder: Rocket Jumping in TF2 was a complete accident

[@ddynamite3835]

"does it help your movement" your answer should have been yes, knowledge on how to surf translates in a few ways, there are first of all some jumps in csgo that require you to be able to air strafe, knowledge on the intricacies of surfing gives you applicable knowledge on how movement works in the source engine and it helps in other source games like tf2 where air strafing is a skill that can drastically improve your gameplay

[@nithia]

Old surf maps is where I discovered techno and edm music xP

[@sambatphu806]

after playing the game for a decade, still don't know how to get into that map/mode.

[@wedont4964]

As Someone who has played surf maps for 1500 Hours there Are somethings i wanna say do not worry about the time you Are setting on some maps im happy that i can complete them some Are just hard or maybe So easy that there Are mikro adjustmance you must do to cut the time by a second or two surf Is all about momentum you dont even Have to play surf just watch diffrent peoples approach And you Will learn a lot even Now i can find mikro adjustmance that Are just way better

[@ahmadpochinki1244]

Yeah you can practice it in overpass when you can strafe and use mag 7

[@Z25O]

Surf has even made it to random games, such as Roblox and even VRChat. I know a few people including myself who started out surfing on roblox, and then starting playing on Source, only difference is, I suck at source and my friends don't. Lol.

[@vibewebyt2293]

And thus surfing for demoknights in tf2 was also borned

[@acer8123]

In TF2 you needed to change some physics values in order to surf properly, otherwise you just fall off the slope.

[@different6716]

I love when awp players dodge my deagle shots and one tap me headshot no scope

[@chewyhead]

Bruh I watch these in the background as ai voices of Trump,Obama, and Biden all roast each other 💀

[@Salkinmusic]

It actually does help with movement

[@zombieraichu2114]

Surfing does help with movement in other source games like HL2DM and TF2 though

[@callmemyth8986]

Can’t wait until they fix the server browser, surfing is super relaxing after a hard 0-13 stomping

[@enricofiala6688]

May not be so extra important in CS:GO, but is a fundemental part of Team Fortress 2

[@DyingBobby]

Before modern physics in game engines (euphoria, etc) they would apply constant linear velocities to slanted surfaces. Actually found this in a few older games and apparently they kept it in CSGO.

[@zeefrea]

Surfing on ramps is in EVERY game using the source engine by Valve

[@ProbAlan]

surfing got discovered back in quake my guy

[@reeldurn1834]

This helped me so much....in tf2 of all games

[@Albionic_]

same, air strafing is basically a necessary skill in that game when you get good enough

[@ABH996]

I began surfing when I was practicing self boost on cache years ago .. now I barely miss it :3