"Daniel Coulter showed my son a great practice routine a couple of years ago. He said that he, Blake Robertson and Hannah Smith all used it. My guess is they learned it from Bill Bell and/or Donald Wilson. If you follow foosball, you know how quickly all of those kids progressed.
For five bar, tic tac between every man up and down the five bar. Everybody knows that routine, but that comes first. Up and down until you're warmed up with the five bar.
Then you lift the opposing three bar up, and just pass back and forth between your five and your three, without stopping the ball. Over and over, non stop, without stopping the ball. Start with the first man on the five, to the first man on the three. Then the second man on the five to first man on the three. And so on, and so on, up the five bar and three bar and back. Over and over just passing non-stop between the two bars without stopping the ball when either passing from the five to the three, or the three back to the five. This really helps build the muscle memory between the left and right hand when catching the ball on a pass. Do it 30 minutes a day and see what it does for your passing.
The next routine is practice for the rollover. Take three balls. Put one in the middle in rollover position. Then take another and put it parallel, but out at the long hole. Take a third and put it parallel on the short hole. Set up on the middle ball as if you're going to shoot a rollover. Rock the ball, but instead of shooting the middle ball, come off the middle ball and rollover and shoot the set far ball in the far hole. Then set back up on the middle ball, rock it and come off it and shoot the near ball. Come back, rock the middle ball and shoot it straight. If you can do this without having the middle ball spray when you come off it to shoot, you are practicing the right mechanics for the rollover. It's amazing how just a short amount of time with this routine will improve a rollover shot.
Take care,
MJ"
I can't really advocate the last bit of this advice. It seems to me that setting the three balls up like that, setting up on the middle ball, rocking, and then coming off of it without moving that particular ball would actually hurt your mechanics more than anything else.
For five bar, tic tac between every man up and down the five bar. Everybody knows that routine, but that comes first. Up and down until you're warmed up with the five bar.
Then you lift the opposing three bar up, and just pass back and forth between your five and your three, without stopping the ball. Over and over, non stop, without stopping the ball. Start with the first man on the five, to the first man on the three. Then the second man on the five to first man on the three. And so on, and so on, up the five bar and three bar and back. Over and over just passing non-stop between the two bars without stopping the ball when either passing from the five to the three, or the three back to the five. This really helps build the muscle memory between the left and right hand when catching the ball on a pass. Do it 30 minutes a day and see what it does for your passing.
The next routine is practice for the rollover. Take three balls. Put one in the middle in rollover position. Then take another and put it parallel, but out at the long hole. Take a third and put it parallel on the short hole. Set up on the middle ball as if you're going to shoot a rollover. Rock the ball, but instead of shooting the middle ball, come off the middle ball and rollover and shoot the set far ball in the far hole. Then set back up on the middle ball, rock it and come off it and shoot the near ball. Come back, rock the middle ball and shoot it straight. If you can do this without having the middle ball spray when you come off it to shoot, you are practicing the right mechanics for the rollover. It's amazing how just a short amount of time with this routine will improve a rollover shot.
Take care,
MJ"
I can't really advocate the last bit of this advice. It seems to me that setting the three balls up like that, setting up on the middle ball, rocking, and then coming off of it without moving that particular ball would actually hurt your mechanics more than anything else.
