this is just a story of poorly done stick animations by me ( MOST OF THESE STICKS ARE NOT MINE, BUT ANIMATIONS ARE ORIGINAL). anyway, i know i suck, im new too animating, so could you pliz give me some pointers on how to do things (punch smoother, kick smoother etc.) heres my first part of the STICK ARENA SERIES...
http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stickarenaround1um3.gif

choppy.
Easing, first thing. it is simple.
Go onto the pivot tutorials, there will be tonnes of them there (Like mine! :P)

Begginers......

To da beginner thread with you!

It was almost impossible to see what the hell was going on. Good look at some tuts, they help a lot.

keeping in mid all pointers given in rabs tut, disregarding the mean comments i made a round 2 featuring naruto and sasuke.
http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stickarenaround2re7.gif

yeah, go try it :D but it did improve very little, but at least you are improving =]

[breathes in]
Its good to be back. (I wonder who remembers me?)
nice try DC. like said, choppy. I'l also add, Stare at so many tutorials you shall mimic the legendary DoD(lol! nones that good.)
but keep trying

i think that the mods/admins should have a button to send threads as a post to other threads, such as this to the beginners section.

Work on easing and stiffness and then it might look good.

I realise I am new to this forum, but not to animations.
Focus not on more frames but more movements. For example, unless you need the file to be very small for uploading, you should make people turn in air before they hit the ground. (not sideways one frame and upright the next)
Hope that helped.