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Re: Human Players Curving Boulders Into The Courtyard

With the new material on the low bar, I have succesfully gotten a ball fairly wedged under the material, and then tried pounding it with more balls. Unfortunately, I have not been able to force the ball through the low bar.

At a practice match at Buckeye, I succesfully angled (not spun) a ball across the ramparts. Any tips for succesfully crossing position 2 with a ball?

For those wondering, I have employed 2 different techniques: bowl the ball like you'd bowl a bowling ball. After practice, you can get pretty accurate with a strong shot. Secondly, I found you could shoot harder and be more consistent at not bouncing the ball off the guard (leaving the ball stranded in front of the opening) if you face away from the field, and bowl using two hands shooting inbetween your legs. Alas, this technique has less accuracy as you can't really see where you're bowling.