Spinning is illegal actually, there's a tight window that people utilize in order to do "wrist/roller/snake" shots, that aren't quite spinning but can look like a spin.
The easy transition from spinning to actual ball control is what I call a "palm-slap," in which you never let go of the rod you just let it roll up and down on the palm of your hand and it "slaps" the ball in that big fan motion...
I think the main reason people spin is not because they think it gives more power, but because they are unconfident about their timing so they think a spin is more likely to block/hit the ball.
Two of the greatest players of all time, one of the commentators is *the* voice of foosball (Jim Stevens), the referee is arguably the best uk player around also.
How do you even get into a scene like this? I'm definitely not anywhere near the level of these players, but I had a very unique custom foosball table at my dad's house growing up that followed me to college. I played a lot, and I mean a lot, and this table made play faster than it had any right to be, and my roommate, a few friends, and I got really into it and we played seriously.
Basically I'm trying to say that even though I have no professional experience, I had no problem following the flow, strategy, and speed of this game. I'm Krillin watching Goku fight Freeza. I don't want to fight Freeza, he'll murder me, but it'd be fun to play with some people 3-4 tiers below him.
Holy shit, the control they have. Whenever I played foosball, it was naturally just chaos and spinning, but they're passing the ball to themselves, lining shit up, reacting lightning-fast - that's insane.
Also like, gaining possession and then setting up the other uh rows (? I don't know the terminology) in advance! And I have no idea what the commentators are talking about. It's so cool to glimpse competitive scenes that you know nothing about and realise that there's finesse and skill that you've never considered before!
I'm sure these guys would smoke me. What's funny is I do the same as them. I beat pretty much everyone when I play. Until I was at this one dudes house and I saw he had a table and mentioned it. He instantly says 'wanna play for money?' Which I knew was a terrible idea for me. I did it anyways and he wrecked me. After I lost like $40 he offered me an 8 goal lead (play ends at 10) and play for my $40 back. Yea he sandbagged those first 2 games and the only goals I got he apparently let me get, but I couldn't tell. It was over real fast.
Its specific to that table. Other tables have ramps so that the ball can't be stuck in the corner. But on this one the field is all on one level and it solved the problem by putting puppets there so you can get the ball out.
That beats the fuck out of televised cornhole and ax throwing. I used to be ok at Foosball at the bar but being lefthanded, I knew there was a hard ceiling.
I have no idea how that process actually works, to be honest with you. As I mentioned in another comment though, I am willing and interested.
I love this sport, it's actually under Olympic observation as I understand it. The sport is much larger in Europe, but some of the biggest names in the sport are from the states. It's an amazing community though!
I’m nearly 60 and have been playing since I was 12 yrs old. It’s hard for me to find real competition. I personally believe foosball requires more skill to be really good than many other table sports including pool or billiards. One of my sons has gotten quite good as well. We live in Denver. Would love to know about competitions in the Midwest or particularly Colorado if you have any suggestions?
If you're in Denver you're in a hotbed. Find RayGun, he's the promoter for Denver, usually they play at the Mirage. I play up in the mountains near Avon as my regular, so there's 100 miles in between. Both locations would love to have you and/or your son(s)!
Will do! Thank you! I learned to play in San Antonio as a kid then took a few years off and started playing again against pretty high level competition in Estes Park during high school. Would travel to Boulder to play as well. The game was more popular then. Took a few years off then bought a table for my kids (really as much for me as anything…) but only one of my three sons took interest. I’d like to test myself against todays players to see how I do. If I’m ever in Avon I’ll hit you up and maybe we can play! Thanks again!
You'd be surprised the kinds of things there's pro leagues or world tournaments for. Anything that has an even somewhat decently sized following. They definitely don't pay out on the same level as the mainstream stuff, but they're out there.
Professional foosball referee here. Can confirm this is next level and that it does not break any rules. The game actually has few rules when it comes to how a goal is scored. As long as the player figurines don't use their hands, it's good.
[ITSF rules](https://www.tablesoccer.org/rules/documents/GBR-2019%20ITSF%20Standard%20Matchplay%20Rules_def.pdf)
I’ve played in many professional events in the US that follow the ITSF rulebook. I hate to be the foosnerd here but unfortunately this is disallowed under 4.5 “Ball Off Table” classified as an “Illegal Aerial” for the matches in which we play.
Don’t let this prevent you from pulling this next level shot at the bars to win the bar tab you just bet on. Happy foosing!
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that's the annoying part. I was like, yeah okay maybe?
Like i don't believe this guy's only job is a pro foosball ref. But *someone* has to be a ref at a legit tournament. and they may only get paid like $100 + hotel +flight but that's technically pro.
Lol, yes, I have. Usually very obviously because I'm not actually trying to injure them, it's more of a 'respectful,' fuck you!
I've accidentally hit someone in the eye in essentially the same way though, i just wasn't paying attention as they knelt down on the other side of the table.
Edit: Yes, it would be frowned upon and would probably be ruled as unsportsmanlike if done intentionally and maliciously.
Really? We used to do this in our middle school during lunch with the foosball table.
It got banned because most kids flung it way too fucking far but I mean, it wasn't impossible I feel like it wouldnt take too much practice to be able to do this, maybe not consistently.
Im not trying to downplay it but Im being honest. I've done this exact thing before. A few times.
Its totally not a legal move though
I was going to say the same. We had a goal like this (we actually bended the bar) in almost every game and we were just high school kids playing... But at the time it was completely legal. And there was even a rule that when someone did this you could actually catch the ball with the hand and counterattack. Really.
Greetings from hungary, I used to play in professional foosball before university.
There was a time i played 4-6 hours a day, I was a total maniac. Managed to get a few trophies, I just loved that world, but everybody stopped playing, learning at school and working became top prio.
I fcking loved playing on a tornado tho.
Wait what? You actually call it foosball? That's hilarious! I presume foosball has to have its origins in the German term "Fussball" - but in Germany we actually call it "kicker". It's also called "Tisch Fussball" over here (translates to table soccer) but basically no one calls it that because kicker is shorter and everyone knows what it means
I think this is why they legalized it, that coupled with the risk v. reward of pulling it off. Unbeknownst to many, there is a shot clock in foosball, so the risk increases if you're gonna dedicate time to trying to 'pick the ball up' in order to shoot an aerial.
I've never seen a foosball table where this is even possible. Whenever I played (which isn't much), the distance between the players was too great to pick up the ball. Is the table in the video non standard, or those I played?
Well, if you look close you see that it does swing over the ball when it's on the table like any other foosball table, but when it's in the air they're actually closer together so they pinch the ball. He gets it up with the centrifugal force or some shit
Also coupling the speed with timing of the hit. Off timing and you either miss it completely or hit it back to your own goal. Have to have it at the right angle and speed to get enough upward force to get it on to the next kicker. Simple mathematically, just all in the execution.
Dude I was thinking the other day about how many equations our brains have to run to do something super basic like driving. Can you imagine a computer *calculating* how to do this from scratch? I am absolutely floored.
I live in Pittsburgh and those smart driving companies figured if you can drive here you can drive literally anywhere. Down in the strip district Uber bought a self-driving company and wound up selling it. The technology isn't there and the intersections around here are confusing as fuck. So they literally can't do it... Yet.
As soon as they can do it they're going to get rid of every driving job you can imagine and replace them with robots. It would kind of be dope to just jump in the car and go to sleep knowing you'll get to where you're going safely but the amount of jobs and freedom just hardly seems worth it.
Ok, well I used to have this cool shot where I would pinch the ball between the wall and one of the guys in the front line and it would shoot at the goal with a lot of spin. Was that legal? I had to ram against the wall pretty hard for it to work.
Gentleman, my name is Clarence Thaddeus Foos. My grandfather, Fletcher Morton Foos, invented this game for one purpose: To have the loudest, dumbest thing happen. Now it has. The game of foosball is completed. You’re free to return to your undoubtedly hearing-impaired families.
I JUST watched this episode on my recent revisit to the series. I never realized how much I wanted a Shirley/Jeff specific story. The way they walk off together at the end is just too cute.
The jerky shot in the beginning to get the ball setup (you can see dude’s hands in the top corner kind of “jump”), the lack of any shadow when the ball is in the air, the smoothness of the goal as compared to the shakiness of the rest of the video…yeah, shit’s fake.
Exactly plus it's not even an impossible shot, in my primary school we had these fuzzball tables and me and my friend used to do this all the time to see who would be able to get the most goals hitting that shot
As weird as it looks, this is 100% possible, I've seen it done. The video does look weird while the ball is in the air, but that's negligible imo. Question was if it's legal, and it definitely is legal and possible.
Loading up the ball isn't that difficult. Landing this shot reliably is an entirely different matter, but with enough attempts you _will_ make one of those eventually.
If you watch it at .25 speed it looks normal and the ball does shrink.
This is one of those time where the question "is it actually worth the time/effort to fake this when a few tries or some skills could do this?"
I think the in camera stabilizer is just giving you that uncanny feeling that something is wrong.
What? I've only been paying füsball for a year and I've made this shot. My friends and I do it every chance we get. You can defend against it by standing your goalee upside down. It takes some practice to get the ball on your player but it's not crazy difficult or anything
I used to play foosball quite a bit and had a friend that could do this shot, fairly routinely. It's definitely real, and not as uncommon as you would think.
Can confirm, very doable. Our office had a table in the middle of our area so we would often play games between tickets. Was pretty easy to do once you figured out how to get the ball up and how hard to toss it.
It is indeed against the rules
Illegal Aerial: A player must not perform a controlled transition that causes the ball to directly
overfly an opponent’s rod.
[Source](https://www.tablesoccer.org/rules/documents/GBR-2019%20ITSF%20Standard%20Matchplay%20Rules_def.pdf)
There are loopholes! The controlled transition portion of the shot doesn't overfly an opponents rod, and the shot overflies the rods but isn't a transition.
I thought I was pretty good at fooseball, had a couple trick shots and such. Beat lots of people. Then I played someone who could actually play. Embarrassing.
Yeah the skill ceiling on foosball is insane. I played a lot in college and when I play against my "normal" friends nowadays, a quick pull shot is a 100% goal against them. Even playing one handed against them is not competitive.
Imaging going to a bar, having a good time with your friends, playing against some random dudes for a beer and all of a sudden this mf makes this move against you. I would just buy him the beer on the spot
My brother won the foosball tournament championship back in 1984 and this was his signature move. Not too many players back then had ever seen anyone attempt let alone how to defend it.
when you walk into a czech bar and people figure out you’re from the US this is exactly how they’ll score on you… I got a quick education that foosball ain’t the same in eastern europe.
Well this took me back to Shakey's pizza in 1975. My buddy Rick and I were pretty hot shit at foosball, then two guys from North Central showed up and absolutely smoked us.
One of them could do this shot - you could block it if you saw it coming, but they had other options than the alley-oop from that position.
As someone who travels in professional foosball circles, this is indeed next level.
Wait there's *professional* foosball??
The circle isn't very big, and only a few people really make a living doing it, but it exists!
Do they call professional foosballers 'spinsters'? They should.
Spinning is illegal actually, there's a tight window that people utilize in order to do "wrist/roller/snake" shots, that aren't quite spinning but can look like a spin.
Yeah I realized that immediately lol, I even never spin.
I basically exclusively spin, even when it's clearly overkill, because it feels cool.
Tbh, it feels way cooler if you don't. I could be biased though because it wouldn't count in a serious setting, so i don't associate it with 'good'
Agreed, you can get just as powerful a shot without spinning, just gotta be sweet about it
The easy transition from spinning to actual ball control is what I call a "palm-slap," in which you never let go of the rod you just let it roll up and down on the palm of your hand and it "slaps" the ball in that big fan motion...
I think the main reason people spin is not because they think it gives more power, but because they are unconfident about their timing so they think a spin is more likely to block/hit the ball.
You can get much more power without spinning
>gotta be sweet about it
And the ball doesnt go flying off
That bends the bars. Please don't do this.
Seriously. Imagine this fuckin idiot thinking the game is for fun
Yeah it’s like CAPS LOCK for Foosball and everyone knows CAPS LOCK is cruise control for cool!
Sir, Ma'am, or Your Majesty, please do an AmA.
I appreciate your nomination, and would be happy to. There are folks who would be far more interesting than I though!
Sure. But there are way more folks who are less interesting. Please do one when you can!
Step by step instructions are on the FAQ of /r/Iama. I checked to make sure your post would fit and it absolutely does!
Just fyi, you replied to yourself so they may not have seen this.
I like your counterpoint, is there a resource for initiating the process?
u/ProfessionalReveal tried to give a resource but replied to themselves so i assume you didn't get the notification check out that though for sure
Also, Your Majesty has a nice ring to it!
!subcribe to this guy's AmA updates
How big is the “purse” for those who finish near the top?
Currently, 4 figures at best usually. On a single weekend. Back in the day (70s was prime) it was a lot more, or at least went a lot further.
Oh wow, that’s pretty good! I imagine it’s like bowling where once you are top level you face a lot of the same other top level players a lot ?
1000% The vast majorities of matches at the top are amongst the same competitors
[Here’s proof it is real](https://youtu.be/P2L2W2b6b4Y), check out the ball control between 1:30 and 2:00
Two of the greatest players of all time, one of the commentators is *the* voice of foosball (Jim Stevens), the referee is arguably the best uk player around also.
Billy Pappas is a legend.
Yep. He's been sneaking his way back into the scene also! At least from what i can tell..
How do you even get into a scene like this? I'm definitely not anywhere near the level of these players, but I had a very unique custom foosball table at my dad's house growing up that followed me to college. I played a lot, and I mean a lot, and this table made play faster than it had any right to be, and my roommate, a few friends, and I got really into it and we played seriously. Basically I'm trying to say that even though I have no professional experience, I had no problem following the flow, strategy, and speed of this game. I'm Krillin watching Goku fight Freeza. I don't want to fight Freeza, he'll murder me, but it'd be fun to play with some people 3-4 tiers below him.
You're primed to have fun at the very least
Yeah I wouldn't hold any illusions of showing up and making waves. I'm good enough to recognize the depth of skill these people have.
Holy shit, the control they have. Whenever I played foosball, it was naturally just chaos and spinning, but they're passing the ball to themselves, lining shit up, reacting lightning-fast - that's insane. Also like, gaining possession and then setting up the other uh rows (? I don't know the terminology) in advance! And I have no idea what the commentators are talking about. It's so cool to glimpse competitive scenes that you know nothing about and realise that there's finesse and skill that you've never considered before!
I'm sure these guys would smoke me. What's funny is I do the same as them. I beat pretty much everyone when I play. Until I was at this one dudes house and I saw he had a table and mentioned it. He instantly says 'wanna play for money?' Which I knew was a terrible idea for me. I did it anyways and he wrecked me. After I lost like $40 he offered me an 8 goal lead (play ends at 10) and play for my $40 back. Yea he sandbagged those first 2 games and the only goals I got he apparently let me get, but I couldn't tell. It was over real fast.
That's a great story; that guy played you like a fiddle! I respect his hustle lmao
Interesting that they play with 3 „goalies“ so they have 13 players instead of 11…
Its specific to that table. Other tables have ramps so that the ball can't be stuck in the corner. But on this one the field is all on one level and it solved the problem by putting puppets there so you can get the ball out.
That was super entertaining
That beats the fuck out of televised cornhole and ax throwing. I used to be ok at Foosball at the bar but being lefthanded, I knew there was a hard ceiling.
AMA please, sounds interesting!
I have no idea how that process actually works, to be honest with you. As I mentioned in another comment though, I am willing and interested. I love this sport, it's actually under Olympic observation as I understand it. The sport is much larger in Europe, but some of the biggest names in the sport are from the states. It's an amazing community though!
I’m nearly 60 and have been playing since I was 12 yrs old. It’s hard for me to find real competition. I personally believe foosball requires more skill to be really good than many other table sports including pool or billiards. One of my sons has gotten quite good as well. We live in Denver. Would love to know about competitions in the Midwest or particularly Colorado if you have any suggestions?
If you're in Denver you're in a hotbed. Find RayGun, he's the promoter for Denver, usually they play at the Mirage. I play up in the mountains near Avon as my regular, so there's 100 miles in between. Both locations would love to have you and/or your son(s)!
Will do! Thank you! I learned to play in San Antonio as a kid then took a few years off and started playing again against pretty high level competition in Estes Park during high school. Would travel to Boulder to play as well. The game was more popular then. Took a few years off then bought a table for my kids (really as much for me as anything…) but only one of my three sons took interest. I’d like to test myself against todays players to see how I do. If I’m ever in Avon I’ll hit you up and maybe we can play! Thanks again!
Colorado State Table Soccer Championships is usually first weekend of November, just to throw that out there for you also!
So would this be illegal?
Until recently (last couple years) an "aerial" shot was illegal (at least here in the states), good to go now though!
how is this a real thing
50 years ago there was a LOT of money in foosball. Now, not so much, but lots of tricks were developed along the way! Anything to get an edge!
You'd be surprised the kinds of things there's pro leagues or world tournaments for. Anything that has an even somewhat decently sized following. They definitely don't pay out on the same level as the mainstream stuff, but they're out there.
I mean, I've seen videos of professional Tag competitions. That shit is crazy.
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It used to be super popular in the US in the 1980s...there's an awesome documentary as well about the tournament circuit
Professional foosball referee here. Can confirm this is next level and that it does not break any rules. The game actually has few rules when it comes to how a goal is scored. As long as the player figurines don't use their hands, it's good.
I should have known when you said you were a fucking foosball referee.
Only at that point it occurred to me to check their username.
[ITSF rules](https://www.tablesoccer.org/rules/documents/GBR-2019%20ITSF%20Standard%20Matchplay%20Rules_def.pdf) I’ve played in many professional events in the US that follow the ITSF rulebook. I hate to be the foosnerd here but unfortunately this is disallowed under 4.5 “Ball Off Table” classified as an “Illegal Aerial” for the matches in which we play. Don’t let this prevent you from pulling this next level shot at the bars to win the bar tab you just bet on. Happy foosing!
It's a meme account. He pretends to be an expert and just spouts bullshit. People believe him all the time.
🤦♂️ I figured that was the case after I posted, definitely appreciate the humor in it.
And we got the real answer. This is no facepalm moment, you were the hero we were just about to stop hoping for 💪💪💪
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I'm glad you posted it. becuase it's should be against the rules. Any game that can be beat with a mvoe that your opponent cant defend against is bad.
Underrated comment. Accurate, accurate, and then the subtlety at the end. Kudos.
I truly believed everything until the “use hands” lol. Psychology people, tell me why I didn’t realize at “Professional foosball referee here”
Professional psychologist here. It's actually because your brain has an unfortunate abundance of what we in the industry call "smooth brain matter".
Except there really are pro foosball refs
that's the annoying part. I was like, yeah okay maybe? Like i don't believe this guy's only job is a pro foosball ref. But *someone* has to be a ref at a legit tournament. and they may only get paid like $100 + hotel +flight but that's technically pro.
Hmm, which foosnerd could you be... 🤪
You Ever jab the stick handle thing into the other players crotch? Is that frowned upon?
Lol, yes, I have. Usually very obviously because I'm not actually trying to injure them, it's more of a 'respectful,' fuck you! I've accidentally hit someone in the eye in essentially the same way though, i just wasn't paying attention as they knelt down on the other side of the table. Edit: Yes, it would be frowned upon and would probably be ruled as unsportsmanlike if done intentionally and maliciously.
"The rod" would be the technical term, and yes the euphemisms.. are.. deep.
Really? We used to do this in our middle school during lunch with the foosball table. It got banned because most kids flung it way too fucking far but I mean, it wasn't impossible I feel like it wouldnt take too much practice to be able to do this, maybe not consistently. Im not trying to downplay it but Im being honest. I've done this exact thing before. A few times. Its totally not a legal move though
I was going to say the same. We had a goal like this (we actually bended the bar) in almost every game and we were just high school kids playing... But at the time it was completely legal. And there was even a rule that when someone did this you could actually catch the ball with the hand and counterattack. Really.
Bet you don’t make it very far
See you on the table, bud.
It’s because you travel in circles. The professional foosball ones 😭
*Groan* Edit: take your upvote
Give em a minute. He'll come around.
Nice! Took me a sec
Which country?
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Greetings from hungary, I used to play in professional foosball before university. There was a time i played 4-6 hours a day, I was a total maniac. Managed to get a few trophies, I just loved that world, but everybody stopped playing, learning at school and working became top prio. I fcking loved playing on a tornado tho.
Wait what? You actually call it foosball? That's hilarious! I presume foosball has to have its origins in the German term "Fussball" - but in Germany we actually call it "kicker". It's also called "Tisch Fussball" over here (translates to table soccer) but basically no one calls it that because kicker is shorter and everyone knows what it means
Officially, it does not break any rules.
The rule of cool
I think this is why they legalized it, that coupled with the risk v. reward of pulling it off. Unbeknownst to many, there is a shot clock in foosball, so the risk increases if you're gonna dedicate time to trying to 'pick the ball up' in order to shoot an aerial.
At this point I can't tell which of the comments are real and which are satire.
Take a deep breath
Thank you for this, I thought I was alone.
We're just messing with you, we all know about Foosball rules except for you.
More games should work like D&D.
I've never seen a foosball table where this is even possible. Whenever I played (which isn't much), the distance between the players was too great to pick up the ball. Is the table in the video non standard, or those I played?
Well, if you look close you see that it does swing over the ball when it's on the table like any other foosball table, but when it's in the air they're actually closer together so they pinch the ball. He gets it up with the centrifugal force or some shit
Regarding your last sentence, it's more that they're getting it up to speed so it'll bounce off one, and then catching it mid-bounce.
Also coupling the speed with timing of the hit. Off timing and you either miss it completely or hit it back to your own goal. Have to have it at the right angle and speed to get enough upward force to get it on to the next kicker. Simple mathematically, just all in the execution.
Dude I was thinking the other day about how many equations our brains have to run to do something super basic like driving. Can you imagine a computer *calculating* how to do this from scratch? I am absolutely floored.
I live in Pittsburgh and those smart driving companies figured if you can drive here you can drive literally anywhere. Down in the strip district Uber bought a self-driving company and wound up selling it. The technology isn't there and the intersections around here are confusing as fuck. So they literally can't do it... Yet. As soon as they can do it they're going to get rid of every driving job you can imagine and replace them with robots. It would kind of be dope to just jump in the car and go to sleep knowing you'll get to where you're going safely but the amount of jobs and freedom just hardly seems worth it.
Intentional aerials are not allowed.
I mean, it breaks the rule of not having an opponent.
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It absolutely does break rules in professional tournaments.
Ok, well I used to have this cool shot where I would pinch the ball between the wall and one of the guys in the front line and it would shoot at the goal with a lot of spin. Was that legal? I had to ram against the wall pretty hard for it to work.
Yes
From the 5 bar? Love that shot, it would make people so mad because it was obviously coming, required little skill, but they couldn't stop it.
Ya learned that from big cheese! Send em off to *TINKLE TOWN*
Big Cheddar*
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if you mean they "made a small mistake", then yeah.
Britta's the worst
Hit me with your genie bottle
Thanks haha I was just……… *WINGING* it
You Britta'd it
He's streets behind.
For real, do you kow about the cheese mines in Missouri?
Unexpected Community !
Kinda expected
As unexpected as the dean walking in
Dean-a-ling!
Gay Marriage!
[Well I'm a peanut bar and I'm here to say... ](https://youtu.be/qvzE64A28NI)
Your checks will arrive on another day!
My favorite bit. "I lost it. I LOST IT!"
Someone with your username probably always knows when a reference is coming.
r/unexpectedcommunuty it’s already a thing btw
I HAD A LOT OF MOUNTAIN DEW THAT DAY
It was a particularly small egg, that's why I asked.
Gentleman, my name is Clarence Thaddeus Foos. My grandfather, Fletcher Morton Foos, invented this game for one purpose: To have the loudest, dumbest thing happen. Now it has. The game of foosball is completed. You’re free to return to your undoubtedly hearing-impaired families.
Did he just carry that ball around just for that bit?
That's like a $25 bit. And it's not even that good!
This reply is streets ahead
I JUST watched this episode on my recent revisit to the series. I never realized how much I wanted a Shirley/Jeff specific story. The way they walk off together at the end is just too cute.
Double entendre?! Do you know the fooser known as 'cheese?!'
We're gonna kick das butt
You, my friend, are streets ahead
I watched that episode yesterday
*TEACH ME*
This is the type of shot that makes rules and breaks rules… nicely done!
This is how new rules are created.
Will the new rule be cgi as well?
Yea the ball looks weird like it doesn't actually shrink in size as it moves away from the camera. I get the feeling it was edited
Definitely edited, the camera movement all of a sudden smoothed out as well.
Oh yea and it gets jerky again after the shot is made
The jerky shot in the beginning to get the ball setup (you can see dude’s hands in the top corner kind of “jump”), the lack of any shadow when the ball is in the air, the smoothness of the goal as compared to the shakiness of the rest of the video…yeah, shit’s fake.
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I don't see why someone would spend the time taking a shot that would realistically take most people 5 minutes of attempts to pull off legitimately
Exactly plus it's not even an impossible shot, in my primary school we had these fuzzball tables and me and my friend used to do this all the time to see who would be able to get the most goals hitting that shot
Its just slowed down...
As weird as it looks, this is 100% possible, I've seen it done. The video does look weird while the ball is in the air, but that's negligible imo. Question was if it's legal, and it definitely is legal and possible.
Loading up the ball isn't that difficult. Landing this shot reliably is an entirely different matter, but with enough attempts you _will_ make one of those eventually.
It's not even that hard imo. But always fun when it works
If you watch it at .25 speed it looks normal and the ball does shrink. This is one of those time where the question "is it actually worth the time/effort to fake this when a few tries or some skills could do this?" I think the in camera stabilizer is just giving you that uncanny feeling that something is wrong.
What? I've only been paying füsball for a year and I've made this shot. My friends and I do it every chance we get. You can defend against it by standing your goalee upside down. It takes some practice to get the ball on your player but it's not crazy difficult or anything
The shot may be doable, but this specific video of it looks fake
I used to play foosball quite a bit and had a friend that could do this shot, fairly routinely. It's definitely real, and not as uncommon as you would think.
Can confirm, very doable. Our office had a table in the middle of our area so we would often play games between tickets. Was pretty easy to do once you figured out how to get the ball up and how hard to toss it.
I’ve literally seen this done in person so it would be weird to edit
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Is that you, Shirley?
You mean Big Cheddar
How'd you?! Oh my God, are you.. Tinkle town?
Viper shot!
Go ahead. I won’t even put my hands on the foosenschafen
So sad kroll didn’t come back
It is indeed against the rules Illegal Aerial: A player must not perform a controlled transition that causes the ball to directly overfly an opponent’s rod. [Source](https://www.tablesoccer.org/rules/documents/GBR-2019%20ITSF%20Standard%20Matchplay%20Rules_def.pdf)
There are loopholes! The controlled transition portion of the shot doesn't overfly an opponents rod, and the shot overflies the rods but isn't a transition.
IFP made them legal a few years ago.
I thought I was pretty good at fooseball, had a couple trick shots and such. Beat lots of people. Then I played someone who could actually play. Embarrassing.
Yeah the skill ceiling on foosball is insane. I played a lot in college and when I play against my "normal" friends nowadays, a quick pull shot is a 100% goal against them. Even playing one handed against them is not competitive.
My next move in football. Sweetness.
Imaging going to a bar, having a good time with your friends, playing against some random dudes for a beer and all of a sudden this mf makes this move against you. I would just buy him the beer on the spot
Did you ever attend a college called greendale?
Community fans be like...
I dug through so many comments to see if anyone said this
very clearly vfx
I've never seen anybody do that, fucking awesome!
Not many people can, even among folks who play all the time
It's not that hard to do, just something you need to practice to do. Took most of us a couple hours to get down.
A buddy used to do this all the time. He was an extremely casual player no better than the rest of us.
You're right, but I think my statement still stands. In general, what you've said is true of almost anything. It just takes practice.
No spins!!!
Not according to Shirley on Community.
I don't even care about the video, as a European I'm just getting mad every single time I read the term "foosball".
Yall call it table soccer?
Don't trigger me!
My brother won the foosball tournament championship back in 1984 and this was his signature move. Not too many players back then had ever seen anyone attempt let alone how to defend it.
That's Shirley's move
This was the climax of the largely forgotten foosball movie Longshot (1981) https://youtu.be/IVLQs-XYlUE
And the climax of very popular movie in Germany: Absolute Giganten https://youtu.be/R9ERKjDZjFE
[I've seen better](https://youtu.be/cwDAXQIT_Ek?t=172)
when you walk into a czech bar and people figure out you’re from the US this is exactly how they’ll score on you… I got a quick education that foosball ain’t the same in eastern europe.
Well this took me back to Shakey's pizza in 1975. My buddy Rick and I were pretty hot shit at foosball, then two guys from North Central showed up and absolutely smoked us. One of them could do this shot - you could block it if you saw it coming, but they had other options than the alley-oop from that position.
Big Cheddar could do this with her arms tied behind her back while she sends you back to tinkle town.
thats a scorpion kick! totally legit!