Becoming Good at Street Fighter 4 - My Plan

I have a hard time with this game.  It is a lot of turtling and many other things I've posted on SRK about.  I don't like 4 as it stands right now.  The major hurdles being the game system and lack of an interesting character, to me, that can win.  

So I think I need to just play everybody, and figure out what their normals are like... and then I'll probably pick Balrog like everybody else and jab my way to victory!