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Unread 03-07-2006, 12:21 PM
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Re: Balls bouncing out of goal

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Originally Posted by petek
When we were setting the field up in NJ and tested the goals we found that if you put the right spin on the ball and hit the chain just right, the ball would ride the chain down, catch in the loop at the bottom and hook right out of the goal. Pretty neat. Not easy to repeat, though.
Not so hard at all. About a third of our clean hits did (more or less) that. It sure changes the calculus away from backspin shooters.
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