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Need a Game? Make Your Own.

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January/February 2000
By Jon Resh, Blue Fire Hereafter 
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  • Improvise wallshot to suit the environment. We've used Dumpsters, roofs, cardboard, windows, signs, vagrants, and parked cars as part of the game. Be creative.
  • Equipment is simple: a soccer ball and sneakers. Don't waste your money on an expensive ball; even the best soccer balls were not intended for brutal concrete play. For sneakers, go for few extraneous decorations that might alter the ball's course as it leaves your foot. Chalk is good for stoplines, although you can usually scratch them in with a rock.
  • For a truly great experience, bring beverages (juice, water, malt liquor) in a cooler, an air pump (to keep the ball springy), and a jam box for tunes. We recommend: the Clash, Public Enemy, the Faction, Beastie Boys, Motorhead, N.W.A., the Buzzcocks, Bad Brains, and anything that gets your pistons going.
  • If you play alone, wallshot may take on meditative qualities. In the throes of a long, solitary volley, your body and mind focused on nothing but returning the soccer ball to the wall, the contest becomes you against yourself, or against the wall, or the ball--or best, you against nothing at all. Find a wall, get a ball, give it a go.

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