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My shooting and aiming is average, I can do a push shot pretty well, but need to work on the pull shot.  My most pround skill is the 5-bar shots.  Actually I think I am the first one who start using it regularly in PMC.  I got the idea from the debate whether or not make the 5-bar goals illegal.  If it is something almost illegal, it is something worth to look into.  Since I piloted the use of 5-bar, people start copying this technique.  Someone even develope strategy to block 5-bar shots and make it less effective.  I have to think about how to put a new twist in the 5-bar shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe me and Anson got into playoff round of the foosball tournament. We joined the novice league and to our surprise, we ranked number 4 out fo 12 teams. I had never play foosball until PMC has installed one in the game room. 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