So in developing my pinball skill set on real machines I've started to get good at doing a very interesting move that I don't know the name of, nor do I see it done often by professional players, so I'm curious if this move has a name:

* The ball is heading down the inlane with average speed.
* You hold up the flipper hoping it will slow to a trap.
* The ball slows quite a bit but is in danger of rolling off the tip of the flipper with very little speed and straight down the drain.
* You do an extremely quickly flip as if you were doing a post transfer just as the ball reaches the tip of the flipper but before it slows down completely, hold up the opposite flipper, and the ball gracefully bounces over for an easy catch on the opposite flipper.

I'm tempted to call it a "Tip Flip" or a "Tip Pass". Does this move actually have a proper name?

"Flick Pass" it is then! :B

Though the way I'm doing it isn't exactly like that. I actually flick the ball way before it starts rolling over the tip so it gets some vertical motion but little horizontal motion, that way when it reaches the other side there's not enough horizontal momentum to fly up the inlane or roll back off of the other flipper.

I'll have to record some footage at some point to show what I'm doing, but that's definitely the move, even if I'm not doing it exactly the same way. Thanks, guys! : )

That one I've tried a number of times but I still struggle with regaining control when I attempt it. My live catches are slowly getting better, though I still fail them about 80% of the time I try them. Drop catches I fail 99% of the time so I don't even try them anymore. Post Transfers I'm really good at and only catastrophically fail them about 2% of the time, with the other 98% either staying on the flipper or transferring over successfully. Since I'm as good with post transfers as I am I haven't even tried to make an effort to learn Tap Passes, though I imagine I should do a game every so often where post transfers are illegal and thus force myself to do Tap Passes instead, just for practice and to at least have them in my skill set if I ever need them. :B

It depends on the machine but the idea is you can't release the button all the way or else yes, you're gonna get a full flip. You need to let go of the button only a little so that when you press it in again it will have had less time to unflip. When you first try doing this on any game the flipper's likely not going to move or will do a full flip, and from there you just have to adjust your timing. Flipper doesn't move, you're not releasing the button enough. Flipper does a full flip you're releasing the button too far or not pressing it back in fast enough. It's also definitely easier to pull off on older games than newer ones.

I think what it is for me is that I'm failing to recognize WHEN to use drop catches to their best ability, thus I end up trying them when I really shouldn't be using them. : P

TRUTH. : B

Flipper skills are coming more naturally to me than nudging skills, because back when I was a kid I learned the flipper skills easily enough, but never really thought of nudging as an appropriate technique for playing. (In fact, I always referred to nudges as "tilts" because that's often how pinball video games referred to them in the controls.) As a result, it's been taking me a lot more effort to learn proper nudging techniques and I still haven't really got the hang of it in real life... Though I have gotten very good at it digitally, so I've built up the instincts to know WHEN to nudge, I just need to learn to translate that into physical movements on real machines.