I'm the worst slide saver in my home comps. I own all the machines but i put carpet down over the concrete floors to limit the chance of machines contacting each other.
Slide savers are much harder on carpet, and those machines that i really don't want thrown around i'll double up and use rubber feet.

Try slide saving The Hobbit on the carpet and you're more likely to hurt yourself than the machine.

You oughta here them crack into the glass when the drops raise underneath the ball on the Hobbit. Man that glass is tough, the noise makes you jump a foot and step back.

Protects the carpet mate.

I wonder if a machine that spits a ball straight from the scoop straight down the guts should be sanctioned for cheating a player?

Is there a poll for that?

Good chance our OP has some odds running with his mates on how many views or posts he can get.....

'Quit shaking the machine.'

'Don't make me come over there.'

'Keep shaking the machine, there's candy inside'

TheSliderLifeChoseMePunkin

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Olympic sport. Next argument.

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Getting into my league too. As I've said my machines are on carpet so you aren't pulling them more than an inch or two. i have seen players do the massive 1 foot slides on vinyl floors in comps and it makes me wince. Not something i'd do on anyones machine.

My mates rib me enough for my small slides.

That shit's getting old.

Slid the new Jurassic park 6 inches in fromnt of the operator yesterday.
Lucky he's a mate.

You should try and catch up with the world. We've moved on from those derogatory names, mate.

QuiteSomeTimeAgoPunkin

Watched an 8 year old make his first slide save on Deadpool yesterday.
Moved it half an inch somehow and stopped a left outlane drain.
Looks like he'd have a hard time carrying a bucket of water, dunno how he did it.

You are good up to 'therfore'. Your assumption is just an assumption, not a fact.

Here's a list of cheaters for you to peruse.

https://www.ifpapinball.com/rankings/overall.php

You may also want to have a decent look at a pinball playfield next time you go to somewhere they have one, there's some architecture there that the designers have included for no other reason than to give you place to nudge from and proactively save your ball. if you can't spot them, ask an experienced player to point them out.

You might also give the danger/double danger system some thought as to why a designer put's it in there. Sliding a machine is a skill that reminds me of driving a crane. If you've ever done it you'll know that if you move the boom with the swing the load will behave differently than if you move it against the swing. One will increase and one will decrease the swing.
Sliding is the same, tilts are designed to give you a single warning if you touch the bob to the ring once. The skill in sliding is not being able to move the machine, it's being able to stop the machine moving without the bob hitting backwards and forwards. Single touch from a six inch slide.

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Love it.

Death saves are illegal, no-one is arguing against that (even if they do it on their own machines).

Come and slide mine. I'd rather that than some of the slappers that play here.

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