Brolylegs helped Team Inferno capture the gold in Season 1 of Street Fighter League. He wishes he could travel consistently enough to play on the Capcom Pro Tour, to live the life of a full-time pro gamer. He's asleep within minutes.Outside a 7-Eleven, an elderly man in a conventional wheelchair says wistfully, "I wish I had a motherf---er like that. He can hit only four of the six buttons required in the game, but he can do all her moves. This morning his younger brother, Johnny, a tall 28-year-old with flowing black hair and a penchant for tank tops, brought him coffee, carried him to the bathroom, scrubbed him clean, got him dressed, made him breakfast, fed it to him and lifted him onto the wheelchair.But competing in this tournament, taking on the best Street Fighter players in the world, winning -- Brolylegs can do all that on his own. "I'm ready to crack some skulls," Brolylegs says.It's the first of several times he'll be recognized among the dark maze of booths, screens and stages. "Every time I've gone on a flight, [the chair] comes back a little more broken than I left it," Brolylegs says. BrolyLegs: The Fighter - Duration: 6:45. "He's probably the reason why I got into [gaming]," Brolylegs says. They played the same guys again at the end of the month in another tournament. When they get home, they'll start looking for an apartment and saving up to go to the world's biggest fighting games tournament, the Evolution Championship Series this August in Las Vegas. They played every game they could, Brolylegs maneuvering the controller with his face, Johnny with his hands, and sometimes as a joke they'd dare each other to play the other's way. But they know they're going to try. "It took me so long to get over it. "Back at the bar, the staff closes up, but no one asks Brolylegs to leave. Brolylegs, 31, was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that restricts joint movement and inhibits muscle growth, as well as scoliosis, an irregular curving of the spine. "One month you have your whole family. As soon as he does, Brolylegs launches Chun-Li's trademark spinning bird move and takes the set.

It breaks my heart when I see people come in and quit after a week. Rattled, Brolylegs nearly loses his cool in the next game but pulls out a win. Eventually, he, Johnny and Juices decide to go back to the hotel to rest up for the big day. The summer before Brolylegs started middle school, Michael realized his son would be transitioning from sitting in the same classroom all day to moving to a different class each period. I still don't play like that 100 percent," he says. "Throughout my life, I was always wondering, 'When am I gonna have a shot of doing my own thing?'" "It's great to see someone finding that freedom. It definitely took a toll, I'm not gonna lie. Michael stayed there through the afternoon while Brolylegs watched a football game on the floor next to him. In a good month, he can make about $3,000 on top of the disability benefits he receives from the government, he says, which he hopes will be enough for him and Johnny to move into their own place in August.On the windowsill of his room is a framed print of Broly, a Dragonball-Z character with rippling, superhuman muscles. I just want this to be done. "That's how I felt inside when I was gaming.

I want to be out there," he says.At home, he spends most of his time on the floor of his bedroom, staring at his computer. His boys remember him as strict and stern, a man who rarely displayed emotion but was forceful in his convictions. Michael Jr. dedicated what little spare time he had, after working for his father and supporting six kids, to inventing ways to make his eldest son more comfortable. "Michael expressed his love for his son through these inventions. The top 16 advance to the knockout rounds. 1 Chun-Li player on Xbox in Street Fighter IV, the 2008 version of the game, from 2013 to 2017.

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