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I know this thread has been done before but there new people here today.
I started playing on a Dynamo in 1980 at a local pool hall. I "SUCKED" :'(
I remember getting so frustrated cause I couldn't stop anyone doing anything..
The ball moved too fast at the time and I would get my butt handed to me. As most of us I started at goalie and nobody wanted me on their team cause I couldn't block a thing(still can't..that's why I'm a forward now...lol) Then I said enough is enough and I practiced more than anybody and started to get some ball control and before you know it I was pretty good....Then a Tornado was put in the pool hall after a few yrs and my game...well...changed!!! I do mean changed..I had to learn to do things a little different. My passing was always good but my shot had to be changed cause of the foot of the man. I could not for the life of me do a pull at first or a pull kick or the easy banks I did on a Dynamo. Man I miss playing on that table..other than the ball...I hated it..I always chipped it with my shot then the ball didn't roll right and how much fun is that?
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My family moved to Germany when I was 7 and bought me a table right when we moved there because all the kids were playing foosball. When I was about 11 we used to go to the outdoor pool that had an arcade with some tables and I would play against the other kids and got really good at the time. I am not sure which table it was as I didn't really think about the differences. My family went to Austria for christmas one time and I played in a tournament there, I made it to the finals and got smoked by someone that really knew what they were doing. After moving back to Canada I think I was about 13 I didn't play much, but whenever I did I would absolutely roll everyone I played until I was at a bar after I was 18 and played some good players on a tornado (which I wasn't used to at all, a lot more control and slower game on other tables I played on). It didn't take any time for me to adjust really though. I learned a lot playing with experienced players. I'm in my first real organized tournament this weekend. Can anyone tell me what type of table I played on there? The ball moved way slower, but the tables were good firm coin ops. The rods didn't come out the opposite side of the table either.
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Sounds like a Bonzini with the exception of good and firm,lol.
ICEMAN
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'68 I played on Italian tables that were hard and slick. Then in '72 we had Deutcher Meisters, I still miss those tables, all control. Around '74 I played on what I think was a Dynamo, maybe some of you could tell me. It seems it had a textured surface. It was fast and good ball control but it quickly gave way to TS green tops, then the blue top and then the brown. I remember one table in the seventies that had a foot that was molded to look like two cubes together so that all the surfaces were square. When ever you played on one of these tables it seemed the men were loose which allowed for a really different style of play. I went to the Quad cities (Iowa) to check out the foos scene and ran into this black kid who had the most unusual style and it was on this type of table. He played this 1/3 speed incredibly smooth non-stop movement, total control game and picked apart defenses with timing. It was a real lesson, worth the trip for that alone. When ever I do an off speed dink I think of how he executed his shots and try to emulate him.
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i started playing on a deutcher meisters around 78 then around 79 we got a t.s brown top some time you would half to wate a hour before
your qurters where up and then ya better win to hold the table oh those where the days
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I played at this christian neighborhood community center in Kansas. Danny, a van driver used to come pick us up, so we called the place Danny's. Anyho, was too young to even remember (or care about) to look at the manufacturer of the table.
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very first time I played would have probably been 75 at a college I was visiting a friend at (Trinity north of Chicago)...anyway, I have no idea what the table was but I was hooked from that time on
first table I knew I was playing on was the TS green top
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Started in 1975 on Deutcher Meisters, then TS Greens Blues and Browns. Bought a Dynamo and played in Tornado Tournament arround 77'. Saw Wiswell win a Championship ring one year at the Tornado Shelter. Also played on Challenger.
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I started on green then blue and ended on brown, Hall of Fame in Lansing .I got beat by two guys that LOL after every shot I played every chance I could till I could beat them with my eyes closed .I hate to loose to A...holes.
Sorry
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Right on Marty! Happiness was 8 quarters on the table and you were hot. Reminds me of the Pines Ballroom when a Led Zepplin copy band ,"Cain', played. The attached bar had a Deutcher Meister table and if you didn't win it could be an hour before you could play again. I once had some guys tell me if I won one more time I'd get my ass kicked. It seemed safer on the table so I shined them on.
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1977 glasstop tornado at the local gameroom, then at UMSL the greentop, bluetop and browntopTS, I was the most formidable on the browntopTS since I had a lightning pullkick series that mixed in stopped angles and offspeed pull dinks, and do chip angles and banks both directions from any man on the 3row. Lost all those tricky shots when Tornado came into favor in St Louis, now I do a little of all shots, master of none. BUT you never know what Im gonna pull out next, eventually something in my repertoire will get just about anybody given enough time to try them all out. Thats why Fooser Gump named me Wildcard.
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Is that table really called "Deutcher Meister"? The spelling should be "Deutscher", and we have a table by that name in Germany. Or is it an American table that simply uses a similar name?
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You're probably right, I'm not sure.
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no the deutscher meister where talking about came from germany
i just can'nt spell , it was a good table back then not sure how there
built today , i see you can still get them new for around $ 1900 us +
shipping . thompson sporting goods then ya got to have your order in
by a certin month for they only order once a year from germany i think
for me if i was going to shell out that type of money it would be a bonzni
not sure on the spelling
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The mystery's unraveled: It's the German "Deutscher Meister" (by the way, that means "German Champion") which is still available, but is considered outdated by the foosing community.
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i started playing on a deutscher meisters around 78 then around 79 we got a t.s brown top some time you would half to wate a hour before
your qurters where up and then ya better win to hold the table oh those where the days
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First started playing foos in 1979 while in college. Went to school in Cape Girardeau, MO (SEMO) and the tables in all the bars were Mirco Championship. Very fast surface - a fun table to learn on.
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Started on Lehmacher P4P now i am on Fireball.
Other german Tables are Leonhart oder Löwen Soccer.
Regards from Germany
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The first table I played on was a Warrior... It was about June 2009 when they first came out and in my neighborhood they first showed up at a local Walmart. Some friends and me pitched in and bought one. It was so much fun, one of my friends said that they even used to run big foos tourneys in the old days.
Is that true, why did they stop?
Pinalyzer
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They never did stop. They just start a new tour every 3 or 4 years.
I began on foosball match (a clone of Deutscher Meister). I'm in my 5th decade. That's kinda deceptive though....Only been playing 39 years. I played every table I could get my hands on. My loyalty went from American in the early 70's to Dynamo, then to Tornado. Tornado is still my #1 choice (choice?), but I don't care for them moving the World Championships out of the middle of the country and they way they handled the brackets last year.
I actually hope Mary is successful with her new venture. I root for anybody is doing "something" for foosball even if it's something I wouldn't do or agree with. It's kind of like the scattergun theory. If the pattern is wide enough, maybe something will be on target.
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I'm for Mary too, good on her,,,
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The mystery's unraveled: It's the German "Deutscher Meister" (by the way, that means "German Champion") which is still available, but is considered outdated by the foosing community.
I touched a table first in '87 or so. I think it was a Lowen in the community centre. A few years later I got hooked on the Deutscher Meister and the Lowen, I played them for years and also had a DM at home. (I think they almost changed nothing at the table from it's original)
Then I had a few sleeping years because no one of my friends did play anymore, until summer 2006 when I had the brightest idea :P to type www.tafelvoetbal.nl on my computer and since then I started playing non-stop till the end of the year 30000000000..... ;D and I like to try to play my game on every table.
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Anyone heard of a vulcan table???(kinda like ts men) I played on it when I was in the Army in Oklahoma...It had painted men and it had metal goals...It actually played not too bad...It was sturdy and abit smaller w/crappy white balls...But was ok to play on.....
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I played on a Vulcan in 1974 0r 75 at Eastern Guilford High School in NC.
We then switched to Rene Pierre.
Foos in school ;), and back then if someone stole the balls they were hunted down like dogs.
Played TS Brown Top in 77 and 78
Played Brown Top Dynamo in 82 I think
Played Tornado in 84 or 85. Single man goalie, ramped corners and yellow ball. Freakin great table then.
Always hardcore RP for the most part.
Switch to Bonzini in 1997.
Own a Garlando, EuroSoccer, Tornado, and a 12 Drawer Bonzini.
AC
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Started out on a green top around 76, :o bought one in 78 played in a few tounaments, just local, then got hitched, ;D did the family think for about 30 years. :D
A now just lately got the green top out of storage and have began the road back. 8)
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Played on TS brown tops (recreationally, I was a kid and there was a foosball hall in the same shopping center as the grocery store).
At 16(1985) I started playing on a Rene Pierre with a hard white ball (not the standard cork) at a game room near where I was working.
College (1987-89), played on some TS knock-off P.O.S.( this table was notorious for breaking men, at one time we had 2 men "repaired" with duct tape and one man replaced with a spoon from the cafeteria, also held on with duct tape. the student union ran out of money for foosball men replacement).
Different college (1989-1991 or 1992) played on a brown top dynamo.
1990-91 joined a foosball league on Tornado (and been playing Tornado ever since).
1990-1994 played on Stryker at a local bar as well as a couple of larger tournaments
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1999-2000 I started playing Bonzini (been playing on Bonzini ever since as well).
Played on Shelti at a couple of local bars somewhere in there.
Soon to start playing on Warrior this year.
So many foosball tables, so little time!!
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My first table I ever played on was in 1989 I was 8 years old. It was a roberto sport coin up that my uncle had it had balls made of ceramic I think. It was so fast it was insane. When I turned 12 I would go to the arcade in the mall. That table was fabi. I played on fabi for about 7 years. I bought a fas table worst table ever I could never score I would always hit cross bar.
I than went to a tournament in Montreal and they played Garlando red white and blue. 3 years after that I played on Tornado and got hooked on that.
Than i met a great group of guys in Montreal and they took me to there place they called foosvision. They had a Bonzini, Warrior, Euro Garlando, Roberto Sport, Euro soccer and Tornado tables. It was an amazing experience.
I than went to europe and played a couple of tournaments on Lehmacher and Euro Soccer.I than met another group of amazing guys In Germany and they had a place they played foos they had Lehmacher, Deutscher Meister, Lowen,Leonhart, Rene Pierre, Tech Ball, Jupiter. Europe has so many different style of tables its awesome. There is a lot of incredible players there. I would go to bars to play and were ever i went i would get competition.
That trip made me realize why Frederico has to stay so sharp. He definitly has a lot of competion.
I just got back from Cuba and there was a table there that I never seen before.the configurations I think if i remember correctly. 1 goalie, 3 def, 4 mid, and 3 forward. The feet of the men were spaced out. It was cool to see didnt play on it cause it was rusted to ***.
Never had the chance to play on TS or Dynamo I would love to play on them.
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How were the striker tables i heard some local players talk about them .
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How were the striker tables i heard some local players talk about them .
The striker was a good table. Johnny Lott designed it. Wider feet than on tornado, very good ball control. One man goalie, I went to a few tournaments on them, and everyone seemed to be able to execute well, table banked pretty well too. It would have been better with slightly narrower feet, but that is just my opinion! I was lucky enough to have a couple of locations near me with tables and weekly tournaments on them, so I played them pretty regularly for a couple of years. Overall a good playing table, just didn't seem to take hold outside of Southern California and Baltimore. Then they just disappeared (well, the promotions disappeared, the tabled lived on in one form or another through the Dynamo Corporation for a couple of years.)
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I started playing regularly last summer (2007) when someone brought a table into my office. It's a Halex, really fast, only 4 guys on the center rods (which seems to be rare). We play with a plastic ball, so control is pretty tough (for anyone in the office). There is one guy who usually smokes most people in the office because he can shoot REALLY fast and hard, but he says when he plays at a foos hangout he gets smoked himself.
I was getting a sore right shoulder muscle from the way I was shooting, and I wasn't shooting very accurately, so I decided to slow down and get better at passing and accurate shooting. After reading some stuff around here it sounds like I need a 5 bar pass and a pull shot :)
Jeremy
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halex??? have any pics?
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TS, oh yea, I already said that, must be the age :o