I was practicing my slap saves like in your video @ 1:34.. but when I came out of the washroom, I sure got some odd looks.

Another great video. So how long did it take to get so many great shots of live catching?

This is the topic that I have been waiting for. Can’t wait to see the full lesson.
Thanks for all of your great work on these

These videos are extremely well done.
The infusion of humor is noteworthy as well.
Nice job. I'll subscribe for sure.
I'll be looking for some lengthy game play videos in the future.
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great vids Abe.

Enjoying your instructional videos,thank you!

Took a peek at the mando gameplay, imho it would be better to have the play field take up more of the screen and have the other
camera view from low flipper view instead of on the player unless she is a topless babe!
Also take out the screen comments and it would be perfect!

Very nice video!

Your tutorials are very flashy and well-produced. I ask though, can you at least use the standard terminology instead of this made up stuff?

Like the Micro-flip which is really a tap pass or tap flip.

Or the “ski-pass” which is literally just a dead bounce.

Papa covered them all in this old series: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-WQLGFMr97DnxeE1Rmi-wAwa-Vm7D-7i

It’s cool to cover the basics every couple years, as several have done, but let’s not keep using different language to further confuse players.
It’s bad enough that I keep hearing people talk about “tilting the paddles” and “tilting the table” when they mean any action or nudging. That’s thanks to Gravity Falls which had a pinball episode

Since these tutorials are a remake of the "Pinball 101" DVD please stick with the common terminology that we and PAPA use. Presenting terminology consistent with what the "pro" players use was one of the goals of our videos.
Otherwise keep up the good work!

Yes, that’s what I was referring to. There’s no mention of “micro” or “ski” on any of them.
I’ve never seen the Pinball 101 DVD’s when did they come out? I love the Papa tutorials though. I will miss them greatly

Back in '09!

Are “standard pinball terminologies” an international thing now?
I guess someone should tell the French so they can stop calling it “Flipper”.

I was thinking this, terms may be different in his neck of the woods. Doesn't make them wrong

I dont care what you call these abe, I thought your videos are great.

Use whatever terms you like and use where you play pinball. I am ok with this.

Also Tap pass sucks, and micro flip is cooler.

He is nice enough to make the videos in English. Keep going.

Thanks Abe

Keep them coming man.
I often refer to "drained balls" as "god damnit" and no one has corrected me yet.

I've subscribed, Abe. Great stuff! It's quick and concise!
Looking forward to more videos.
P.S. Great editing. Very nicely done.

How so?

Ski pass is used by everyone including the czars over at PAPA.

These are great, and funny! Keep up the good work.

Excellent videos,I now use the micro flip to set up a backhand shot for the Mystery scoop in Metallica ! Very satisfying when it works

Wow, those were bad

That has been my favorite tip so far from these fantastic videos, completely changed my strategy on stern JP. Control room/C is so much easier now.

Great videos!!

Great vids! They've helped me quite a bit and my games are improving, thanks!

Is "God damnit" not the correct terminology?... Damn I've been wrong this whole time.

Amazing videos. Thank you

This tip is HUGE! I just beat my best score on Metallica thanks to the micro flip,backhand shot!
I have a JP coming this December,so I should be ready for the control room.

Can you include a link? Because I browsed the PAPA list of terms and it’s not on there.

Watch the video maybe? The flipper is raised, the ball hits the rubber and then you immediately drop it so the initial bounce continues. The ball is not traveling up the flipper over to the opposite one, which would just be an inlane transfer.

I appreciate you responding to my critiques in a calm manner. It’s refreshing, unlike the extreme negativity from others.

I’ve watched Jack since he started on Twitch, and never heard him say Ski-pass. I’ve heard him say Micro-Flip and chatted back and forth on it, and left it preference. When did he start using ski-pass? Even searching pinside, it sounds like a relatively new term, within the past couple years.

Also, I understand the French/English thing going on. Some commenters seem to forget your videos are in English! I have worked with many French pinheads, and they call them flippers because the translation from English to French for “pinball” would make no sense. Sometimes language relies on existing words instead of making one up if it doesn’t make sense.

It’s like Ramen noodles in English. Ramen IS LITERALLY A NOODLE. We don’t say Spaghetti noodle!
Anyway, my point still stands.
Great work on the series ABE_FLIPS
I look forward to the nudging videos.

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Pinball machines are called Flippers pretty much everywhere else in the world except for USA. I only realized flippers were actually called pinball as of 2020.

Same argument for Anana vs pineapple. The world knows what Anana is, except for USA. lol. Not even autocorrect knows what Anana is, hence the capital in Anana I am too lazy to correct the autocorrect. lol

No links to provide sorry. It’s a term I’ve learned over the years by competing a ton.

But really. Why does it matter at all what he calls them? He did a ton of research before making any videos to ensure terminology made sense.

These are extremely well made and enjoyable to watch even if you know how to do this stuff. Nice job!

Also, there's nothing in the ski pass video that even resembles a dead bounce.

So, by definition, the flipper is not "dead" then, right?

To me a "ski jump" and an "inlane transfer" are the same thing. Any dropping of the flipper when the ball gets to the tip or nudging of the machine are just additional aspects of the move for when the ball doesn't have sufficient momentum. In Abe's video, he calls it a "Ski Pass AKA Ski Jump, Flipper Pass, Inlane Transfer, or The Evil Knievel" so I feel like he really covers his bases with the terminology. Speaking of which, I should really work on calling it an "Inlane Transfer" more reflexively, I hate the term "Ski Jump/Pass" myself, but I don't think that means it isn't a "valid" term for it though.

FYI, the first instance in his video looks like this: this screenshot is the frame before his flipper drops. If you really want to break these moves down into sub categories, I suppose you could call it something like a "Live Bounce" though that makes it sound more like a variation of a dead bounce. I still think it is much more in line with an "inlane transfer" because it is executed the same way, does the same thing and results the same, this is why I would classify them the same. Basically, I don't think nudging the machine to make the ball bounce fundamentally alters from an "inlane transfer" to a distinct, new move.

For the record, I wasn't trying to be a jerk with my initial "how so?" comment, I was legitimately curious about your perspective, I probably would have come off more sincere with a full sentence though.

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I know I said it already but how did I not know of the microflip and the ski-pass. Definitely because I’m a noob but man what a game changer.

You're a class act Abe.
Looking forward to seeing what you put out next.

A dead bounce means the ball is not put in motion by mechanical “active” action. When the ball hits a rubber and bounces purely due to the properties of the rubber, it’s considered a dead bounce.
Example being woodrail games with passive bumpers, they have rubber on them and the ball strikes them and rebounds off them.

Look at his videos. As the flipper hits the base of the flipper, it bounces off that rubber, and if you don’t drop the flipper, it would strike that flipper and not bounce all the way over. It does not roll up the flipper and over to the other side. If you did not flip and the ball bounces off the flipper and rebounds from the rubber, that’s a dead bounce. Same thing here except the position of the flipper is raised, merely to catch the bottom rubber, the flipper itself is not actively flipping the ball to the other side, such as a tap pass.

The dead in “dead bounce” doesn’t refer to a dead flipper, it refers to the rubber itself being the source of the passive bounce.

Yes it does. There’s only one way to do a dead bounce. That’s with a flipper at rest.

In a dead bounce you’re not actively hitting the ball with the flipper, and in the bounce pass shown, you’re not doing that either, the flipper is dropped.

At this point I’ll rest my case, at no point in those videos is the flipper actively flipping the ball away. He even uses a nudge to get it across because it can’t fully make it under its own power. This isn’t even the main point but you guys are trying super hard to latch onto it. You can attempt to justify that all you want.

Embrace the ski pass! Death to engaged flipper fraudulent dead bounces!!