Cool Things About Foos Videos

[Grant]

My brother Mark bought some insidefoos videos, and I highly recommend them. The commentary is excellent and you can actually see what is going on during the matches. If you can get a few of your friends to chip in for the videos then it isn't that expensive. It is also good to watch them with your friends because your friends can often pick up on things you might have missed. The videos can serve to get you and your friends motivated for some serious foosball. Also, it is fun when you show up at a tournament and see some of the pros from the videos. However, a word of advice, even though you feel like you know the players because you study their game on tape, they have no clue who you are.

Also, the insidefoos guys are pretty cool. They remembered my brother after only a couple purchases and at the recent Texas tournament they gave him a radio to listen to the commentary during the live matches. Yes, the unedited commentary can be quite entertaining to say the least.

[Foozkillah]

Over the years, one constant is that it is a pleasure to talk to and deal with the main guys at InsideFoos, mainly Jim Stevens & Christina Fuchs, unless there've been major changes.

However, too bad you've never been entertained by something that few players can do. Jim Stevens' deadbar push-kicks ... rack after rack by Jim Stevens. He does them very quickly, and very loudly. Makes a lot of those of us who've given up the push-kick for speedier shots sit back & wonder what if?

If one's played competitively long enough... part of the "grail" of foosball is finding the one or two killshots that elevate us from where we normally are , game-wise. So we've all experimented with (most probably starting with that natural push shot..) killshots, looking for that most comforable "automatic" killshot. I myself have gone through the push, pull-kicks from near the far wall, pull-kicks from the big white box, crossover quicksets to a push-kick or a pull-kick, as well as quickset pulls and pushes off of both a backpin and a frontpin.

Jim Stevens' push-kicks make me remember all those experiments, looking for good shots to be consistent with. I settled on a pull, because I liked its sheer simplicity.