Distance Awareness is a name I gave to a strategy I acquired perhaps about two years ago. It's when you stand one space beyond the flames and it can be used strategically to gain the advantage in a battle. Below I made a picture in Microsoft Paint to help explain.
The black dot is the bomb, and the orange lines are the fire. The "B" is the Bomberman using the strategy standing one square away from the flames on the grid.
This is helpful for survival, but I've come to use it more often to get to particular spaces on the map faster than my opponent can. This strategy is good for most Bomberman games but is a failure on Bomberman '93 because in that game, a simple fire up can throw it off as on the game, a power up gathered after a bomb has been set increases it's power when it shouldn't do so until the bombs laid after acquiring the item are laid.