Crash boom bang

Yesterday's foosball session at the Beach Hut was an eye-opener. Not the foosball clinic - which covered stuff that I already knew - but the DYP (draw-your-partner) mini-tournament after.

The level of play was unlike anything that we've come to know in the office. My defense was hammered over and over by shots executed so quickly that I've finally come to understand the term "unraceable shot".

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those kids were fast as lightning
and I guess it was a little bit frightening
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There's a point where the speed of shot execution exceeds my reaction time - the ball is in the hole before I even start to flinch. As if my defenders aren't even there. I hardly need to worry about shots from the 5-man rod on defense; the 3-man shots are so deadly that shooting from the 5-man is abandoned totally in favour of a tight pass to the 3-man forward.

One thing's for sure: we need to get Tornado foosballs for the office table. The pace and speed of the ball are really quite different from what we're used to playing on the Dynamo.