I am trying to make a sword and shield combat animation using Mixamo animations and the 3rd person blueprints from UE5. I've used blend space to combine the animations and everything works fine except the "strafe left" animation. When I press W and then hold D, the character moves smoothly to the side and runs normally. However, pressing W and A plays a few frames from the strafe animation and loops.

Here is the blend space setup:

my first thought when reading this is that it is jumping and skipping the blend space, because the speed + keyboard input are at their max so you need to setup something for interpolating, just setup a debugger so you know what you're doing