Wrapping the handles might help. If you truly want to get back into the game, you'll have to adjust to the Tornado table.

Thanks for the info. This is going to sound like a really stupid question, but... do the wraps get applied every time and then removed or do they stay on for an extended time? I've seen pictures of the wraps, but haven't actually seen any being used. Tragically, my only experience with foosball in the last several years has been random games in bars.

Thanks for the follow up. So gloves are gone and wraps are in. Unfortunately, it seems as though the foosball activity here in Iowa is either a closely guarded secret or nonexistent. I would love to find a league or gathering place in central Iowa but have found nothing.

A latex golve? Wow. Some guys wore gloves back in the day, but with the rubber handles I never felt like I wasn't getting a good grip. I wonder if the tables got away from rubber grips because of excessive replacements? The wooden handles by themselves are ridiculously slick.

Are nonround handles preferred by players now? Maybe it's just me, but why the move to the 8-sided handles?

Thanks for the replies to my eye rolling questions. Love the game and hearing from others that also do.

Handles for foosball tables have never been rubber! Just wood and plastics..
The shape of the handles have always been what they are now for the last 34 years since the first model of the Tornado...

Plus the reason why the wooden handles becomes ridiculously slick, is because the sweat from the hands draws into the wood, and through time it builds up.
Even when you use a "GLOVE", the sweat from the leather absorbs into the wood, but obviously not the same issue with plastic handle's.

But the key remedy are wraps, and I mean placed on all four handle's.

And last but not lest. You are going to have to adjust to the best change you can possibly obtain from using wraps. There is no other better way!

lesson(.01)

Master Jedi R.O.T.N.

Edited by user Tuesday, February 17, 2015 8:24:24 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Yep, Tournament Soccer even had those stupid slip on rubber handles. Remember trying to tape the rods or using rubber cement where the handles slipped on to keep them from slipping during play?

Trashy/Slice debunking lesson(.01)

Well as long as you didn't mind the head shaking answers..Sure its all good!


Yeah, love the game too, and on the other hand, I fucking hate it equally!!!
Winning is not what its cracked up to be.
Hay have you ever been exiled, because you were just plain good at the game?

............ And here you are having issues about handles and how slick they are!

Hmmm...well I guess everyone has to start somewhere.



jedi