Foosball/Babyfoot/Table Soccer

[bayrider]

no no not the euro ones... i know those ones theyre (N)

[Erich]

I don't know what snakes you've seen, but I've seen some very very nice ones.  Very long drags and then clean cuts in the OPPOSITE direction.  All in one motion, no less.

A good snake is just one motion. No cut backs or anything. If you decide to rock at the beginning, that's your preference, but that IMO is considered sloppy. Because most people when they rock will give one long rock before going to the other side giving me that "telegraph"... There are various other things people do. But the major point I was trying to get across was when people tend to rely on one shot, most probably they didn't learn it perfectly and in alot of cases will favor a certain side, a certain hole, they may do something strange before the shot WHATEVER, every player I have played against does one thing or another that gives away their shot.

Were I'm from here in the west (alberta) Tornado table's are the biggest, although foosball in itself isn't very big. There is one bar in Edmonton which I hang out at occasionally that all the top players in Edmonton hang out - the people that compete in vegas that I was talking about.

Anyways, I don't like the Tornado style myself, although it's better than garlandos, but the bonzini style is where it's at.

Just by the nature of the table, when you get to the competitive level it encourages 1 fast, consistent, accurate shot. And ussually passing shots get ruled out because they are raceable. With the bonzini style there is really a whack load of really weird stuff that you can do that gives the game a whole other dimension over top of the garlando and tornado style tables.

EDIT: I like to add as many shots as possible to my repetoire. But I won't use the snake, because when you change your grip to the wrist grip, you are dedicating yourself to a 1 motion shot. Right now I'm basically taking every shot I have and turning them into series' with fakes etc. It's starting to become really complex, but the game has an endless learning curve.

[BroChaos Veteran]

ahh, i need my table. it's at home. damn, how to get a table 1500 miles away...?

[VidER]

I didn't get the snake yet :(

isn't there a flash movie showing an example?

VidER

[deck]

EDIT: I like to add as many shots as possible to my repetoire. But I won't use the snake, because when you change your grip to the wrist grip, you are dedicating yourself to a 1 motion shot. Right now I'm basically taking every shot I have and turning them into series' with fakes etc. It's starting to become really complex, but the game has an endless learning curve.

For sure. One of my biggest peeves is people who use only 2 or 3 shots... or even just 1... all game. I'm always trying to improve my shots and get more in. I can't do the snake, so I work on other moves... lots and lots of cuts and pass shots. I play of a lot of no-passage moves in passage games (cause its legal).

It's no fun when someone uses only one shot. It's less fun when it's a shot I have trouble stopping..haha... I seem to be able to stop nearly every shot except a fast drag. Go figure. You have the fastest, longest 1-2 in the world, and I'll stop it clean. But a quick drag beats me.

The new shot of the month is an off-the-wall aerial from the back. That's after last months rainbow shots.

[deck]

I didn't get the snake yet :(

isn't there a flash movie showing an example?

VidER

http://www.foosball.com/content.php?page=119

Try this page for some movies. The snakes that have on it, though, are really bad. They also don't show the whole motion properly. That said, it seems to be a shot that some can do and some can't. I can't. I just can't grip the bar properly.

[Erich]

Check out http://foosballworld.com/video.html for a video on the snake at normal speed and shows the gripping. Although the video is pretty small, but it get's the point accross.

[cmove]

Babyfoot :)

[moloko]

I have a foos table at home. My roommate and I play it a few times a day. We have our own rules.

clean goaly shot is 2 points.

no spinning.

winner drops the ball.

terms we have..

fluff..when you go to shoot and miss the ball

point...game point

slop

3 man bluff...been called snake

fooz'd...defense scoring after o just shot

anti-fooz'd...after d shoots o does the same and scores on the shot.

assist...5 man splits d and 3 takes the goal.

We dont take the games serious and just messing around. Its fun though.

[deck]

Major purchases for the next year;

Laptop. July, probably.

Good foosball table. A cheap garland starts at like 600US. So that one is going to have to wait a little longer, since a laptop is just a little more useful.

[threetonesun]

I play foosball quite often but I'm terrible at it. Whenever I play you can score any physical way possible, including poking the other person with the bars. But, again ... we're really bad.

Air hockey, on the other hand, I frequently get challenged by strangers to play. I dunno if there's rules for that though, the only one I observe is no chip shots.

[griffinme]

My best shot is a bank off the wall with the two man pole in the back. The only way to defend it well is for the other guy to have his man way to the side out of position for a straight ahead shot. I had a roommate that had a nice table. He learned to dread when my goalie trapped the ball. ;)

When playing singles I always keep one hand on the goalie rod. I have seen some players that would use both hands for offence and then it was a race to see who could get their hands on the right rods when the ball went to that end of the table. I tend to look on these guys as easy pickens.

[obiwong]

When playing singles I always keep one hand on the goalie rod. I have seen some players that would use both hands for offence and then it was a race to see who could get their hands on the right rods when the ball went to that end of the table. I tend to look on these guys as easy pickens.

for singles around here people usually play slowball and usually wait for the other person to get to the back

...not much fun when there's no where there and u'r shooting on basically an empty net. also makes no sense to shoot from the 5 men when playing singles for the same reason, it's just an empty net when there's no one back there.....

[Erich]

Yeah, I wait for people to get back before I shoot. Most people I play who play that "hack" style I tend to mop up since they can't get the ball past my 5 bar.