5 Fundamentals of Foosball: Execute

Here's the 5th fundamental: execute.  You've got the ball, you've setup, read the d, decided on a option, and now it comes down to how well you execute the shot/pass.  Here's some tips to help you execute at a higher rate of consistency.

Practice Pressure:

Practice like you play:

Well that's the 5 fundamentals.   Hopefully they were useful to you.   If you have any additional ideas, comments, whatever, please share.

Next up: The duplicity of defense (yes i think alliterations are cool).

5 Fundaments of Foosball: Decide

If you've made it this far, you've got control of the ball, you've setup, you've read the defense, and now its time to decide what to do with all that information you've gathered.

Here I talk about basic 'Decide' based on what you've read, plus i touch a bit on the best case scenario, where one reads to decide how to shoot/pass, then reads more with that reading method in mind, and then decides what hole to shoot/pass and when.  

Here i go into what i call playbooks - and deciding ahead of time - allowing a coach to dictate how one can read and how one can adjust if blocked.  Scripted? yes.  hard to do? no, effective? very much so.

Here i talk more about coming up with game plans, and how i discovered the importance of seperating the coach within from the player within, and when to let each out.

continued...

5 Fundamentals of Foosball: Read

Here's the next installment of the 5 Fundamentals of Foosball:  Read.   So you've contolled the ball, set it up, and now you should read the defense, to be able to decide what to do next.

Here's the first video:

and another where i start to touch on various different ways one can read:

and some practie tips to help bring reading into your normal practice routine:

5 Fundamentals of Foosball - Setup

In this entry I touch on fundamental #2 (Setup) which really means setting up the ball in order to work a series of options from the same starting point.

In this video i start to describe the concept of on-timing and off-timing shots/passes

Here i go into other types of ways to pass / shoot where i breifly touch on live-reads and pre-reads

Day 4 at the 2009 HOFC in Las Vegas

Its Saturday at the 2009 Hall of Fame Classic Foosball Tournament in Las Vegas, and here's a few video log entries from my day.

Here's me getting ready for Open Singles - and some steps i took to better prepare for my matches.   Plus a responses to some comments i've seen on message boards about the "DYP mentality":

Here's a quick walk through of the tournament room, and a quick update of my first two matches in Open Singles.

Here's an entry just after they shut down the tournament room for a few hours where i share my thoughts on my match with Billy Pappas:

and here's my final entry of the day (and probably the tournament).

Thanks for following, and hopefully some of you found these semi interesting.

Day 3 at the HOFC in Las Vegas

A very dissapointing day was day 3 - (wasnt 3 supposed to be the magic number - I guess it was for others)

and here's some afterthough / reflection, on what NOT to do at foosball tournaments (more of a reminder for myself, but a good lesson for any foosball player going on tour).

Day 2 Final Report at the HOFC in Las Vegas

Here's a very tired me, reporting on the happenings at the end of day 2 at the 2009 Hall of Fame Classic in Las Vegas.