Stick Soccer - Team 2 (South Korea/Australia)

In today's post,we're going to learn how to beat the second World Domiantion team which, in my case, is South Korea. If this is the first time you're here, be sure to have a look at my last post HERE.

Before we start, I'm going to teach you an important technique which we are going to use in today's game - curving the ball. This technique is only used when you are in the long area i.e., when you are far away from the goal, or in some other special cases. First, make sure you practise just shooting the ball without trying anything fancy. Only if you think you are able to connect the ball almost every turn, you can proceed to learn curving.

In order to curve the ball, first keep your finger on the ball as you normally would and then, instead of shooting it in a straight path, curve your finger in the direction you want the ball to move - either left to right or right to left. I find left to right easier to learn and master, although you may have a different opinion. Both take some time to learn, so I suggest that you play a few games just to practise the curving before actually trying to win.

Now that that's done, let's move on to the actual game. The first half is pretty easy to score from as it's in the short area.

There are two main scoring areas, which are highlited in red. You can either follow the traditional method of shooting in the opposite direction, or just shoot in whichever direction you're comfortable with.

The second half of the game is much more complicated. It's your first time shooting from the long area and you've got to use all your curving skills to get past the goal keeper from here. There is only one other defender and he shouldn't be of much trouble to you.

The idea here is that the distance is too much for any power to last and so we use curve to confuse the keeper about which direction the ball is coming towards. You can shoot towards any direction you like, but just make sure that it doesn't go wide of the goal or directly at the goal keeper. Also make sure that you don't shoot the ball with too much power as it tends to go above the goal post.

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If you're able to curve the ball, you should find scoring goals easy. If you're not, stop worrying and go back and practice once again. Your opponent should have scored 2-3 goals, so beating them shouldn't have been much of a problem. I know that many of you are curious to know what happens if both you score the same number of goals. I'll tell you - you play an extra ball, the Golden Ball as it is called, and if you score with that, you win. Otherwise, you lose. Simple, isn't it?

That's it for today! I'll post the tutorial for beating the next team in a few days, so make sure you have entered your email address to get notifications in your inbox whenever I post. Also be sure to tell me in the comments whether or not you were able to win and also if you had any problems anywhere in the game, and I'll certainly reply.