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Post by BuffaloRanger on Apr 6, 2005 15:50:00 GMT -5
Now, BuffaloRanger , you say that you’re looking for a new move. Well, I don’t know if this is new for everyone, but I have never seen this used by anyone other than myself. Unfortunately its success/execution rate is only about 35%. So, here it is: 1st establish a threat through the middle with your RDef (with a variation of P-pass, deep & long RDef shots to their net) Once that has happened, they will be pinching the center passing lane – which is exactly where you want them. With there left Dman pressed high (toward the redline), you have options. What I like to do is have my longstick all the way back toward the redline (stick facing the opposite direction), then I position him in such a way (I wont share that here) & I then have my R Dman back by my goalie where I thingy a shot that deflects off of the longstick and right into the net or back to my center (who sits back a few inches off of the redline). Once the delivery is completed, I have a shot on net, one timer from my center or a controlled breakaway (hence – Goal!!!) It’s fun to use as a surprise move. Have fun trying it!!! Tony. I'll have to give this a shot! Now just for clarification. you have your longstick back toward the goal line in the corner, with the stick facing toward the back boards or the side boards? Do you slide the pass along the boards or 1 bank it off the longstick? I don't need you to be too specific as to give awayall your secrets, I'm just trying to visualize it. This is why I want to play some great players. Playing the best improves your game, even when you lose. I don't claim to be a great player. I don't think I have ever played anyone better than me, but honestly, that's not saying a whole lot. I have only played in a couple tourneys and the competition wasn't very strong. I want to watch and learn from the best players. I'm in that tourney in Buffalo at the end of the month, so we'll see how that goes.
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Post by VTJEFF on Apr 19, 2005 10:53:00 GMT -5
The best move I've ever seen is anything done by Kenny D involving three players. He doesn't always pull it off, but it's art when he does.
I try to develop my own moves rather than copy others, because your opponent has less "immunity" that way. Part of success in bubble hockey is doing the unpredictable.
One of my moves has a very low success rate, but I nailed it twice in the last tournament. My brother calls it the "alleyoop." When I have the puck with my left defense near the net, rather than simply clear the puck I will sometimes shoot it hard off the backboards point-blank. The angle and the stick action have to be just right. If you hit the sweet spot, the puck will richochet off the backboards, sail high over the entire ice surface and into the opponent's net. It's like a long chip shot in golf that improbably finds the hole. The best part is seeing the look on the other guy's face, as in, "What the hell was that?"
My bread-and-butter move is the "DHL" (Deer in the Head Lights). It's a left wing/center play that I scored with several times in the national tournament in Anaheim. (I can still hear Barry Melrose saying to me in the final, "Did you mean to do that?") Guys are getting pretty good at blocking it now, though, so I may have to come up with something new. But that's part of the fun.
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Post by toxickiwi on Apr 19, 2005 20:40:11 GMT -5
Do you a video clip of the alleyoop?
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Post by VTJEFF on Apr 20, 2005 7:16:37 GMT -5
Do you a video clip of the alleyoop? Sorry, that's classified. But seriously, my brother has a digital camera that can record live action, so maybe it's possible to hook up a demo. Can't right now, though, since we're repainting our players.
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Post by toxickiwi on Apr 20, 2005 17:08:52 GMT -5
I tried it a couple of times last night, I think I almost had it (but the goalie saved it)… I think I need to get the set-up a little quicker, but could be useful.
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Post by bababooey on Apr 26, 2005 17:56:19 GMT -5
My favorite move is jumping the puck with the left forward. Stand just inside the blue line, puck touching the stick, and turn your wrist. Puck flips right to the center, over the net. (I should clarify - it bangs off the back board, barely touching the corner ramp, and hops over the goal.) I've been able to stick it in on both sides with the center using this. Scored three times in one game this way, and pretty frequently score twice a game with this jump. On a couple lucky occasions, it actually hit the back of the goalie's head and went in for the score.
Another favorite, which I haven't seen mentioned here (maybe with good reason - are foot moves outlawed?), is with the right FWD (long stick) bring the puck in front of you and leave it resting slightly to the left of your slot. It will be just out of reach of the opponent's stick. You have two attacks here. You can bang it through your opponent's skate and stick (if you're lucky) but you can also turn your man to face the far boards and ram the puck with your skates. The angle of your skates will bank it right to your center man if you do this correctly.
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Post by bababooey on Apr 26, 2005 18:11:24 GMT -5
Regarding the P*SSY PASS. We play that way at the office (yeah, we have a machine in the office...fun!). But it developed into something else entirely. First, we were getting very good at defending it, not by getting the sticks as close to each other as possible, but by staggering the sticks slightly. The success rate dropped on it, for sure.
The main development was developing the SHOT from there, forget the pass to the center guy. What I would do is jam my centerman at the middle of the ice with the stick pointing back towards my goal. This left a pretty good lane. I'd move the puck up, simultaneously moving the centerman to the goal while turning his stick towards the opponent's goalie (this opens up a gaping hole to the left of your center) and I'd shoot - voila, right into the far side, even with the defense tightly closing that gap at center ice. The guys got good at defending this, so I was able to get it near side doing this as well. For a brief period I was unstoppable with this laser, which I could at will get to either side of the net, right from the defenseman. One day I hit four in a row, alternating sides - it was sick! But somehow the defense has evolved again and I maybe get one of these once every two games now.
So I have to every so often resort to doing the RD to LD pass in front of my goalie that someone else wrote about on here. It works!
One other shot I've hit is to just bring the puck out right in front of your goal but to the right, sort of on the corner goal magnet. If the lane is open to the far left center board, and the opponent's goalie it to your right, you can sometimes bank it off the left center board from the right corner of your goal.
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Post by buzz on May 3, 2005 16:51:47 GMT -5
Some interesting moves posted.......
A move that makes your opponent think it was luck (until you do it twice or more)...... Twist your opponents left defenceman's stick out of the way if it is against the boards at the back Position your RW and C for a pass to the middle - RW on blueline and C on redline With puck on LD stick and beside goalie, shoot puck towards your LW, but let it go around the boards Hand moves from LD to C - tip puck with RW to C for a quick jam shot
Takes a little bit of timing/practise to hit the angle, but it adds another trick up your sleeve.
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Post by Mixolyde on Jun 22, 2005 17:01:36 GMT -5
This is my current favorite. I bring the puck up to just behind my blue line with the right D and try to laser the top far side corner of the net. I can get it about 1/5th the time right now, but getting better.
Before that, my favorite move was to have the puck on the left winger with his stick pointed roughly at my goal and the puck on the opponent side. I'd twist and snap the puck off the back board behind the defensemen and it would slide on the ice right onto my center's stick in front of the goal to one time in either corner. Unfortunately my league got pretty good at stopping that pass.
Before that, my favorite was a hell of a crazy goal when it works. You put the puck on the outside of the left winger's stick with the stick pointed directly at the back board. the bent part should be as parallel to the board as possible. then, you snap the stick as hard as you can to the outside. the puck should hit the right board, bounce up into the air over the defensemen's stick, land on your center's stick and you just push it in for a goal. I got this to work many times before my league caught on and started blocking the bounce with the D, instead of the pass. I also like having the puck on the inside of the long stick but behind the man and banking it off the right wall, to the back wall and to the center.
Ok, that's enough for me!
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Post by Mixolyde on Jun 27, 2005 15:36:14 GMT -5
This almost never ever works, even when you're trying to do it. But when you do, it looks really good. Put your center all the way up with his stick pointing about 45-60 degrees to the right, basically toward the right corner. then have your right D shoot the puck from either side, inside tends to work better, at the hole between the center's feet and stick. if you hit it right, it will shoot straight up the ice, hit the gap, bounce off the near corner of the stick and into the goal. point the center a little farther to the right for short side, a little straighter toward the back for the long side of the net. It's really hard to do, but really fun!
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Post by loosmoose on Nov 20, 2005 19:02:56 GMT -5
There are many many more "patented" passes and combos out there. A simple pass is the "Driskill" pass because he started doing it to me in 1972 on our home tables.. right wing (big stick) has the puck and backhands towards his boards in a flip motion... sending slightly forward, it bounces in the air ever so slightly and goes over the defensemans stick. You see it the first time you think it is a fluke... but believe me he has it down. Kinda cheap because of the bounce... but... it is effective.
You do the standard left wing moves... threaten the wrist shot, def covers the shot.. so you backhand pass to center. So def covers based on puck position on stick.. forehand he covers goal, backhand he covers pass. Bounce pass off the end boards *is* possible if done from the backhand side of the stick... meaning it can be stolen easily so this doesn't come up all that often.... and it needs to be done fairly close to the red line.
So next to learn is "sliding shift" from backhand to forehand. Left wing starts with puck on backhand and skates backwards to open the passing lane. Def goes with him. While skating, LW rotates allowing the puck to slip through the gap and in smooth 1-2 motion rotates back and then snaps forward to produce the wrist shot.
Since I am left-handed this is an easy one (lefties have a good advantage in this game.) You can do basically the same thing with the right wing... as you are drawing the puck back with backhand, you can allow the puck to come through that even larger gap... but the drawback is that because of the angle on the stick it leaves the puck closer to the man making the angle wrong to get off a good shot. You have to retreat even further thereby giving your opponent more time to see the move happening and defend against it. This is a standard setup for the before mentioned Driskill pass because it appears to be a shot in the making and draws the DF but ends up being a lead pass to Center.
When you do this enough times down deep, you open up the "Belly Pass" which is the soft underbelly of the defense. You pull the puck back on backhand with Big Stick, rotate and allow the puck to slide onto forehand side and slide a pass right down the goal line with Centerman waitng to deflect it in... unfortunately on the long side making the pass that much harder... but sometimes you catch the goalie cheating away from the near post and bounce in off his skate.
Using the Big stick backhand pass to center for the onetimer sets up the end board bank pass to centerman far post, after you do this enough times the goalie (assuming the guys uses him) will start flying across the goal anticipating that shot, so you have to start learning to pull the puck back to the short side with the centerman.
Left Wing to LD is a viable shot, but only comes open if your opponent leaves his Def in deep a lot. If You have been beating him down low with LW wrist shots a lot and he is cheating on the low side this can be a good way to make him look for something new...which opens up everything else.
Right Def has an excellent shot to the left post and a fair shot to the right post if the lane is open if you have the handspeed and the lane to get it off before he corrects.
The P*ssy pass... WAS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED into the game. How do I know this? Because when the game came out originally (read the history of I.C.E. on their website it is a nice story) I saw that and was OUTRAGED that they would do something such as that. Between the goalie banging and the wuss pass... it made little kids even with exceptionally skilled players which is horrible. I called the manufacturer in 1983-84 when ever it was... and asked them HOW to correct this problem and I was told that it was intentionally made that way... because they wanted to get the game over with. It was an ARCADE game... and if kids played 5-10 minutes longer after the game was over... that was just lost revenue. They needed a way to "speed up" the end of the game.. so making an easy way for little kids to score was their answer.
We immediately got our local gameroom managed to reset the stops on the men so the Centers could reach far enough to block the wuss pass... and Goalie banging was not stopped until someone compared it to a 5-man pass in Fusball... and that seemed to register with their teenie brains.
If you are scoring a lot with the LW and your partner is defending better and better... use the double back pass to open up your LW. Pass from LW to RW back to LW... amazingly few players use this... with a very skilled opponent you may have to "sell it" a little more bringing the RW back a bit... but because of the long long reach... you can slide the puck easily around the endboards to your waiting LW.
*note* All the above... assumes as well maintained table with clean slick ice and properly tensioned (gears) players.
My ALL TIME favorite play is the inside belly pass from the LW... you have to catch the puck off the boards with the LW as far forward as you can go... and start to come backwards... drawing your Center back FAST, this catches your opponent with the problem of getting back fast enough to block the pass. This happens so fast... you can't wait to see if he moves with your or not... so you just make it happen. The LW retreats and slips the puck to forehand and rips the puck down the red line as the Centerman charges back to the goal and uses backhand to deflect inside far right post.
When you play with experienced players, they have seen *EVERYTHING* so you use that against them showing them what they see all the time and doing something different with it.
There are many more, but if you made it this far, you are a true fan of the greatest game to ever hit a Pub, Bar, Gameroom, Bowling Alley, or some lucky kids back room at home.
I LOVE THIS GAME !
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Post by thunder on Jun 11, 2007 22:30:55 GMT -5
Favorite of mine is to take a single shot from player to the right of my goalie across ice into the net. I usually pull the puck back like I'm going to clear it, set it up just to the right of my net, position my center man with his stick angling towards the left of the opponents net and flick the shot. I've gotten decent with it, but never played anywhere but my home game with it. New to this site, awsome to find it... anyone in the Detroit area by chance? I've been into chexx since I got mine back in '98, never seen anything organized around here to play in unfortunatley. i usually only get a few games out of people when they stop over anymore so I kind of put it aside for the last few years.
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Post by reusty2k5 on Jan 24, 2008 10:38:37 GMT -5
Although I have had my Chexx for less than a week, I have already developed a few favorite moves.
The left wing snapshot is my favorite, if the goalie is slow I can get it most the time. If the goalie gets to the post I can get it farside some of the time, but I am not yet quick enough if the RDef gets in the play early.
I also enjoy the RDef slapper, I have been taking it from near my own net, but just started messing around with taking it closer to the blue line.
Now it is time to learn related plays for after my opponents learn how to shut these moves down.
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Post by u332 on Feb 1, 2008 15:31:12 GMT -5
RDef double bank pass- Slowly bring your RDef up from your own net with the puck on his forehand like you are going to blast one at the net. Instead of shooting when you are about at your own blue line with the RDef fire it off the right boards (long stick's side) so the puck hits the boards roughly at the top of the circle in your attacking zone (usually right next to where long stick is standing, you may have to turn him a bit to let the puck pass by him). The puck will double bank and pass right to the center for a one timer. First it of the right boards then againsts the back board and voila, out in front. There is some good video of this shot on YTube. Seach for Chexx. I have about a 80-90% success rate getting it right to the center man so it can be done consistently.
When they start slamming back their LDef to stop the 2nd bank, then start intercepting the pass with long stick for a quick center attempt while the defense is slammed back to the goal line.
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Post by caz44 on Aug 7, 2009 5:01:23 GMT -5
I come in on a Breakaway and do a spin move to my backhand and roof the puck. Works everytime..........GAME ON!
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