Foosball for Beginners: A Guide to Foosball

By Jason Wills

You have always wanted to offer yourself a personal entertainment treat and at last you made it. You are standing in front of your brand new, shiny foosball table, a cult reminder of the old days, but there is a question floating over it. What should I do in order to master and conquer this new amazing world?

Take a deep plunge into the secrets of foosball or table soccer, find out the history of this fascinating classic game, learn the ropes of the gameplay and get from novice to advanced or professional quickly and easily.

Jason Wills will be your guide in your attempt to make the most out of the foosball experience. In this book, he will offer you clear and simple basic gameplay features along with a coherent explanation of the full set of rules, everything you need to understand the concept at first.

Once you figure this out, it is time for mastering and managing these little men. You will find some valuable instructions on how to hone your skills and technique, useful strategies that will never fail to lead you towards victory, as well as practical guidance on how to handle your grip and shoot the ball in the best possible way.

Apart from techniques and guidance, you will find useful tips and advice on choosing the right foosball table and how to maintain and preserve it in order to enjoy this fascinating hobby of yours for a long time. A feature that makes this eBook a must for every foosball lover, either novice or pro.

Follow this guide and get ready for some indoor homemade fun with your friends, and who knows? Maybe entering a tournament will not be a distant dream.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason Wills
• Release date: Sep 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370741991

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Foosball for Beginners

A guide to Foosball

Jason Wills

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2016, Jason Wills

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A History of Foosball

Chapter 2: The Rules

Chapter 3: Honing Your Technique

Chapter 4: Spinning vs. Not Spinning

Chapter 5: Technical Skills

Chapter 6: Shooting the Ball

Chapter 7: Strategy

Chapter 8: Additional Skill Shots and Tips

Chapter 9: Foosball around the World

Chapter 10: When Foosball was King

Chapter 11: Foosball Tournaments

Conclusion

Chapter 1: A History of Foosball

Introduction

Many games throughout history have gained a following of vast and impressive proportions, and a few have even been lost to time or relegated to that dark, uncertain place in human history where lost things go to dwell.

Among them all however is a game that has been discovered, allowed to visit that lost area, and then been dusted off in order to capture the attention of players once again.

Combining more than one element of play, this game has been known far and wide by many different names, and has been recreated in various different forms as well.

That game is Foosball.

Also known as table football, that’s soccer for those in the US that sometimes get the two confused, Foosball is a very simple game from the outset, but possesses more than one layer of play once you truly get into it.

Its design is just as simple, with wooden or plastic players that are set into position upon their poles, each side defending a goal over a miniature table that is often designed to look like a soccer field.

Who Created Foosball?

When speaking of its history the story isn’t quite clear as to how and when Foosball began, but there are plenty who would swear by the ever-popular theory that it was devised in the 1880’s as more of a simplistic parlor game.

Others would claim that it was the innovation of one Lucien Rosengart, who was at that time a minor player when it came to inventing various items and practicing the arts of engineering.

Rosengart was said to have a great many patents, not the least of which were for parts that had to do with railways, bicycles, a special type of rocket that would allow artillery shells to detonate in midair, and even such items as the seat belt.

He claimed that the game had been an invention he’d thought up in order to keep his grandchildren active throughout the winter months.

Not long after his children’s favorite pastime was shown to the general public the tables began to make an appearance in cafes all over France. The tiny players were even bedecked in the colors of the French flag so that anyone who saw this device was reminded that the French were far superior in their methods of thinking.

Yet the idea of who built the first Foosball table has never gone without some form of dispute.

In fact, Alexandre de Finesterre, a poet and editor, claims that during his time spent in a hospital after being injured as a result of a raid in the Spanish Civil War, he observed a group of youngsters who had been laid up similarly to him. Taking this into account he decided to create a way that they could enjoy the game while being unable to play outside.

Thus the beginnings of an idea were started, and Foosball was on its way to being realized.

After talking with a local carpenter by the name of Francisco Javier Altuna, Alexandre then went on to patent his idea. Likening the game to the concept of table tennis, he went ahead and created a game in