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Skipping the Thermal Visor

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Speed Tricks: Fast Grapple

Discovered by

CAL Foolio

(download video)

Notes:

Jumping will cancel the normal "grappling to" animation Samus does when you press L.
You can often release L much sooner than it seems safe to, reducing the total grapple time as shown in the above video.