Learn the Real Rules of Foosball not the stuff you learn at the bar or in a frat house! My Gear: Foosball Table: Tornado T-3000 Coin Op Camera: GoPro 4 Silver
3 goalies has Almost only advantages. It is much easier to set up a pull shot You can do a sneaky 2 to 5 in double The table is Flat and the Ball only Rolls, when you want it.
I don't think there's much difference as far as how much area the middle goalie can cover when compared to the middle goalie with the 2 outside goalies. I believe the cushings are pretty close to the same so, to me it's not a big deal and the advantage would have to go to the 3 man goalie bar! Imo anyways
Ok, so we're playing at the bar, & my partner accidentally spun while passing to me. I missed it, but everyone called it, including my partner. So our opponents get to re-serve from the 5 bar. I'm kinda glad it went down like that. I learned the actual rule, & it wasn't my screw-up. We lost.
Very nice done. Long ruleset explained short. ;-D We are playing every lunch break in the office (table located into the conference room), and it's hard to have all office mates follow a minimum set of these rules ... :-) I guess I will forward this video to my colleagues. Keep foosing.
Great summary! It answered a few questions I had, but what I'm not sure of when the ball is in play and it ends up back at your 5 bar do you need to touch two players before advancing with the third player or is it just at the start with possession?
I want to know the rules with regards to the referee or umpire... And if there are linesmen by the side to enforce what's legal or illegal, eg offside...how about handball? I caught my friend holding my defence line while I was concentrating my Messi clones to attack...I understand if a streaker runs around the field, that's a distraction ...but who decides? Since both players would stop. Or how about throwing a towel into the fray ...is that a timeout gesture or a protest or a surrender, what if it was done by a spectator, would it made a difference if the spectator is a fan? Or if it is a blowing fan that disturbed the ball? And the stick? What if the field is wet? Should we declare a a rematch or end of match? What if a player's kicker broke? What if the player broke and got no money to pay the winner? Foosball's rules are so complicated, no wonder people get turned off from playing....that's why I let my pet hamsters run loose on that table for a change of playground....it beats selling it away to cash converters
Thanks for this explanation, the game is now extremely boring. How any one gets good at this game when there are actual sports to play outside is beyond me. Going back to laughing and spinning with friends.
Nobody was born able to master foosball! It takes discipline and time! Most spinners are the types who'll buy a guitar and just let it sit there, never learning to play it! Another example that takes time and discipline to achieve, and you should never stop learning in either examples!
I think the 3 wall 5man rule is dumb, and I think that the ball can't be stopped and passed forward with a 5 man is also dumb. If we can stop it on offence on the 3bar anytime, why would you not be able to do it with 5man. Silly rules.
I always give the other player time to get his hands on the rods before shooting from my 3 man. Making the shot before he has time to defend is considered rude in our playing circles. This only applies to a 3 man shot though.
Actual players tend to congregate together. Go on FB and search foosball and your state. Don't listen to who say playing by the rules isn't fun. They are the same people who don't think dribbling a basketball is required to play basketball. There are reasons for the rules. Keeps the game from being total anarchy. You show up to a group of tournament players and playing like a jackass only makes you look bad. Keep in mind....playing by the rules limits THEM...not just you. Releasing them from that only makes it easier FOR THEM to beat you. It requires skill to win. Don't lower the bar thinking it will save you. Cuz it won't.
@@DFOOSKING oh I agree totally. The one thing that annoys me the most is spinners. I hate when someone just spins the rod as fast as they can with no aim. Also people who pull the rods so hard that the rubber stops next to the men, slam into the sidewalls causing the whole table to move 😒
I feel like most of these rules are wrong. You can also spin as long as you don’t let go of the rod. So you can reset your grip to you wrist then swipe the hand up while moving to the normal grip thus spinning the bar.
Thanks a lot, but I have two questions: 1.) When a new ball comes into play, may the third guy to touch the ball on the 5-bar attempt to score a goal directly? 2.) Do these rules apply to all tables, e. g. Garlando?
I've been playing since 1975. Back in the late 80's, I learned a pass from one of my friends from Buffalo. We called it the stop pass, where you dribble the ball on the 5 man and actually make it stop for a split second and then go behind it and pass it hard. Half the players said it was illegal and half said it was legal. All I know, it was about 90% effective on tournament players.
I do believe that if the ball is in motion and a TO is called; if the ball does not come to a complete stop before time expires -- regardless of 'when' the TO was called -- then a time infraction is still applicable.
Is there any explanation for those rules ? Most of them make sense but I don't understand why it's illegal to pass if the ball is stopped or tap the walls more than twice before passing. Is there any reason for this ? Great video btw, as always
I was checking the 'rule book' the other day and noticed that the 10 second time limit on the 5 bars only applies when a ball is being put into play, after that when the ball is on a person's 5 bar, the time limit is 15 seconds like the other bars.?? This true??
What about scoring from tha centre bar..(5 bar)...Back in tha day it wuz called a centre hack...lol...Didnt count if it went straight in, but counted if it went off a player.
I can understand a lot of the rules but the distraction one is dump. Shouldn't it be the person who got distracted fault for being distracted. Mind games is part of every game. I understand the hot bloody. But talking to the opponent but spinning shouldn't be an issue. Spinning leaves the opponent in one area. So getting around just be easy. And the 15 secs, whilst have only 3 wall bounces seem a bit much. I understand why you start in the medium but it doesn't out a lot of knowledge, skill and mind games out of the game. Starting from the sides seems to add lucky but it's pretty easy to get consistent l.
Hey Chase! I started playing Foos as a brand new player in Fall 2014, and ever since then I've played at least a couple hours per week. I've never done anything official, just rules I "heard at a frat house". The only things we do differently compared to this video is all shots must be clean (no ricochets off wall or other players), no scoring off the 5-bar, and if the ball goes in to the goal on a "slop" shot, the ball drops randomly, instead of the person who last got first possession. I think these elements even the playing field a bit when playing lots of different people, many of them inexperienced. After watching some tournament play, it's clear they don't need the "clean shot rule" to be able to shoot clean. It's really just in place for the type of person that drops the ball and immediately starts spinning the 5 bar and expects to put points up when it randomly bounces in. Watching your tutorials has definitely upped my game, especially on defense and the snake shot. Keep it up!
Hey cameron, hope you guys are still playing, and stopped spinning. Personally, I'm not a fan of "clean only counts" for two reasons: 1) The games can drag on for too long wearing everyone out and if other players waiting to play, it sucks for them, or you when waiting. 2) Table soccer is supposed be an emulation of the REAL game of soccer, so if the ball breaks the goal line, it's A GOAL! and you can blame the goalie for not doing his job of stopping the ball from entering the goal. Once your skill level gets to a decent point playing goalie, you start to thrive on making the impossible slop blocks because you know you're ready for almost anything coming your way. Play better to get Better.
@@TGiFoosday I have played since I was a kid, in all sorts of arcades, party's and bars and bank shots or deflections are part of the game, we even practiced all that stuff. good 2 person teams among my groups of friends would call it tipping a shot, where the forward 3 bar would move just enough to redirect the existing shot. My preferred table is a slick top with a totally slick ball, known in my area growing up as speed ball. I am absolutely new to internet and regulated foosball however and looking to get back into after scoring a nice table.
YES NO SPINNING NO PULL SHOT NO SNAKE NO SIDE TO SIDE PASSING NO DOUBLE TOUCH SHOT ! THE GAME HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM EXCITING FREE FLOWING TO BORING STOP SAME SHOT EVERYTIME
@@ChasePennell Thanks for replying Chase :D I cannot believe you actually replied to my comment! Did you think of making a video with a more "in-depth" approach towards these rules, mainly fouls associated with passes? (usually 5-to-3) I play in amateur tournaments in different places and even though people know the basics (ready protocol, jarring, dead ball, etc) when it comes to 5 bar passes, there are A LOT of misunderstandings. This would not be an entry level type of thing, but more for those "advanced amateurs" with a thing for the game :) The way you make the videos is awesome - keep it up!
@@jackblack384 That is not accurate at all. The pull shot has been used since the early to mid 70s. And was the number 1 shot until the mid 90s. The Snake Shot came along in the 90s and if that is what you are referring to i would agree to some level. BUT the top players would still be the top players. They are that much better than everyone else.
Chase Pennell this is how it’s played with fast timing, it’s not 4 players trying to stop the ball constantly moving the sticks in & out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CCWTVXcs9aY.html
@@ChasePennell thank you for the quick response. recently stumbled on your videos and they are great.... i own the same table and the rule book that came with it have different rules... is there a difference between US tournament rules and ITSF rules?!
Since spinning as a tactic tends to be bad in practice, I was wondering if you knew why the official rules decided to explicitly ban it in the rules. Is there a story behind that, or is it actually better than I give it credit for?
MindSet Foosball Another question could you have the rod in an angle where if the ball come towards your rod you can hit it? Basically like a charge shot.
I am trying to keep it VERY simple. That is why i also left out a ton of other smaller rules. That is an easy fix later but getting them to know even a few rules is massive.
Can you tell more specific about the spinning? I hate spinning and somewhere I read that if it's less than 360 degree before and after touching the ball then it's legal? I hate when someone argues this because nobody's going to put a slo mo camera!
It usually ends up doing nothing but breaking the men or the pins that hold the men or bending the rods. You also have no control over the direction the ball goes. Most competitive foosers can have just as much power and total control of a shot that you can't get with spinning.
WestVirginia002 There is a yearly worldwide tour held by the ITSF (many of tournaments are for money). The rules laid out here ARE the standard rules players who compete in ITSF tournaments play by. The rules are constructed based on the nuance of the game to keep experienced players from taking advantage of occurrances which come up often during play. Anyone who has the skill to play at the ITSF level plays by these rules. Anyone else is usually considered a bar hack.
@@rodenrren2 What that means is, for those players who are experienced enough to know how to take advantage of the table, the ball or surrounding environment in order to gain an unfair advantage over another player by means OTHER THAN by pure skill. For example, an experienced player who knows what the effects of jarring the table will be to a player with less experience at handling the ball will gain an unfair advantage over that player. Jarring does not require skill, thus it is banned.