We’ve all seen the movie montages where the hero trains under a grueling regimen, suffers setbacks, but eventually triumphs to becomes a champion, like in Rocky or the Karate Kid. For Joey the Cat, it was 10,000 hours of practice, persistence, and Pabst Blue Ribbon to become Brewskie-Ball National Champion. In this talk, you’ll learn how skeeball was originally a “strongman’s” game, about its rise as a modern competitive bar sport, to how to become a champion, and more! All from one of the legends of the game. Joey the Cat (joeythecat.com) is a competitive Skeeball player in the San Francisco Brewskee-Ball league and an avid collector of classic Skeeball machines. He’s been interviewed by NPR, The New York Times, the Bold Italic, and more. Kristian (http://kristian.tumblr.com), aka Black Devil, is an urban explorer, technologist, and designer based in San Francisco and is currently working on a dissertation surrounding the Global History of Skeeball. He has been featured on Gawker and The Business Insider.