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

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

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.

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.

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.

It better be the Oxford dictionary or I won’t accept it! They’re the only ones who have the credibility to convince me