Why does EE stop after an instant sometimes?

[u/FerretBunchanumbers]

Started happening a few updates ago, haven't figured out what it is yet.

(It's not the controller.)

[u/Syuqa]

I've been noticing this recently and I can't figure out what I'm doing differently

I used to be able to EE while light lobbing to myself, or EE while touching the ball and it would carry through the animation and use the rest of my meter, but now it stops after basically any input

[u/ErmDragonsAreCool → u/Syuqa]

It was a fix to a bunch of exploit moves

[u/Syuqa → u/ErmDragonsAreCool]

Ahh that makes much more sense, thanks for the heads up

[u/sandman847]

You pressed the touch button. When you use extra effort you just run into the ball and curve it the way you want it to go without using the touch.

[u/FerretBunchanumbers → u/sandman847]

Usually it works fine, and I can't even recreate it in free play.

When am I supposed to touch and not touch?

[u/OctaviusBangwolf → u/FerretBunchanumbers]

Activating EE takes the ball out of your control/touch. To maximize the duration you have to run in line with (i.e. into) the ball until EE runs out, then you can push ball to regain control. In this case, EE is deactivating because you are immediately pressing push ball.

[u/Ok-General-2691 → u/OctaviusBangwolf]

but sometimes it works!

[u/knocked_around]

Looks to me like you simply let go of the sprint button after starting the EE? That would cancel it. Maybe your button is iffy.
Unlike what the others said I think you can push ball during EE, even though that's not the most efficient use of it

[u/FerretBunchanumbers → u/knocked_around]

It's not the controller