@@AbeFlipsOh OK. Unfortunate to hear it will take that long but thanks for making it! Also want to say yours are the most professionally produced tutorials I have found. The edits, added graphics, slow motion are all excellent. Thanks Abe!
Awesome technique video.. loved how you showed the difference that nudging makes.. showing g a drain with no nudge and the save with it side by side.. really helps to visualize the moves
Lol, love the wicked shimmy scene, very funny. And as always such an awesome and informative video. The camera work and graphical overlays are so good.
I'm getting so many drains on Iron Maiden but nudging a lot and nudging early has made a huge difference. Your last video helped me a lot and I think this one will too
Thanks for putting this together; very well edited and clear. The following is likely a testament to your skill but there are several examples (0:29, 2:59, 3:07) where I'm shocked that they didn't earn you a tilt (or at the very least a warning).
I'm not sure how or if the tilt was set up there. In some cases I removed it for recording reasons. Takes alot of time to always restart the ball if you get a danger since you will tilt on the next move and can't use the recording. However, I explained that those big moves will get you a warning, dispite you cant see the danger-lightshow kicking in.
@@AbeFlips Thanks for the insightful response; that you removed the tilt (for the video recording) makes some sense. I didn't pay enough attention at 0:38.
0:56 "you can't save every ball, sometimes you're just unlucky" But do you think it would technically be possible to nudge as the ball is hitting the slingshot, to change the trajectory and save it? Obviously it's more unpredictable than a solid post, and it's designed to be, but is it technically possible to purposefully redirect a slingshot rebound higher or lower and avoid an outlane? I do see people nudge on slingshot hits but I don't know how effective it is.
Good question and I wanted to include that in part 3. Anyway, you are right with everything you are saying. You can increase the balls rebound by nudging the sling against the ball, thus forcing the ball up- out of the danger zone, or you can lower the rebound to get the ball down, especially if the ball is touching the slingshot on the lower part this helps to get it down to the flippers, avoiding a potential outlane drain. There is also a timing aspect to those nudges, with which I am not familiar yet. My problem with all this is, that I only have modern Sterns, it plays a bigger role with slower slings from what i have heard- and as you mentioned, its really hard to estimate the balls rebound angle well. However, I am nudging when the ball touches the sling most of the time and I feel like it does help, but from my testings I couldn`t tell if its really helping that much. If you can find the pinball 101 DVD, there is a short hint on how you can direct the rebound, essentially showing what I tried to explain here. But dont forget, you should avoid the slings in the first place by nudging early enough 🤓
After months of practicing, I executed my first successful Wicked Shimmy thanks to your demonstrations!! 😁 many thanks for helping to improve my skills!! 💪
Doesn't this hurt your hands and arms a lot? The machine is heavy too. I love pinball, but only play Pinball FX, VPX etc. ... I have problems with my arms due to typing and clicking anyway so maybe nudging a real pinball table might not work for me.
Like with any sport, if done too much or too intensely, you can injure yourself. Therefore, I suggest playing and paying attention to your body's feedback. I know people who have played aggressively over decades without problems, but I am also aware of individuals with physical issues. Typically, the body tolerates playing pinball well, unless it is done to an extreme extent. If you have RSI-related pain, pushing the buttons could aggravate the issue, but nudging should be well tolerated. You can reduce the resistance of the flipper buttons by adjusting the switches slightly, requiring less force to push the button. This adjustment helps me to play longer sessions (I also have RSI...)
@@AbeFlips Thanks for your reply! I had problems with my arms because of excessive typing and clicking for some years. Now it is about ok, but playing the piano or the guitar is still difficult. Playing digital pinball with my Switch Pro Controller is ok...but the main reason why I haven't bought a real machine or a real VPIN yet is standing behind the cab and pressing the buttons...sitting in front of the computer with a controller is better for my arms. Judging from your dialect, are you from Austria or Germany? I am from Austria. :)
@@leanderquest Yeah, I'm Tirolian. Look for a Pinball location near you and play for a few hours and see how it goes. Would be bad if you miss that opportunity and don't experience the feeling of owning a pinball machine. It's like one of the best things ever! I also have problems with guitar, but I learned to adapt... However, controller can still be bad for me.
@@AbeFlips Warst du schon mal im Prater in Wien? Da gibts anscheinend einige...auch Lord of the Rings, Medieval Madness...einige meiner Lieblings. In Vöcklabruck gibts die Flippsarena...aber ich weiß nicht, ob ich mal probieren soll. Ich hab in meinem Leben ca. 500 Stunden digital gespielt und 5 Minuten in echt, weil es keine Tische in meiner Nähe gab bzw. ich jetzt wegen der Arme nicht weiß. Aber ausprobieren sollte ich wohl mal. Wieso kannst du mit einem Controller nicht spielen? Die Tasten vom Switch Pro Controller sind einfach zum Drücken...einfacher als Flipperbuttons.
@@leanderquest Vöcklabruck spiel ich immer Liga und Wien war ich auch schon! Probiers aus! Ach, jeder hat so seine Eigenheiten was Beschwerden betrifft ;-)
It all depends how the machine is set up and mounted. My local pinball place had a Stranger Things pinball, and it was so loosely mounted that you could shake the thing with very little effort. Other tables there are really hard to nudge, and you really need to push hard to get them move anywhere. And these are all modern Stern pinball machines and variety of games from different eras.
Check out the link for the Wicked Shimmy workout in the description!
pls make more videos on advanced techniques
I fucking love pinball
@@RobotronSage Me too, I'm working hard on a 90 min + tutorial, stay tuned!
@@AbeFlipswhen can we expect that?
@@svenop I guess it will take at least a year. First recordings are already done 🙂
@@AbeFlipsOh OK. Unfortunate to hear it will take that long but thanks for making it! Also want to say yours are the most professionally produced tutorials I have found. The edits, added graphics, slow motion are all excellent. Thanks Abe!
Best pinball technique tutorials around. Nothing else is even close. Great work as always
Whenever someone asks me about pinball skills and tutorials, I always refer them to Abe's videos. Great video Abe!
"Don't stop until the job is done" LMAO this was the funniest shit ever
That wicked shimmy scene was so dramatic!
Awesome technique video.. loved how you showed the difference that nudging makes.. showing g a drain with no nudge and the save with it side by side.. really helps to visualize the moves
great follow-up! i like the dotted-line paths showing potential disaster paths
Lol, love the wicked shimmy scene, very funny. And as always such an awesome and informative video. The camera work and graphical overlays are so good.
Thanks for the dono mate 😍
You are a great teacher and I love seeing your sense of humor mixed in to these videos!
You make the best pinball tutorials. Thank you!
This was a great video. My wife and I recently got into pinball so we’ll be applying these techs on our next game night 😁
I'm getting so many drains on Iron Maiden but nudging a lot and nudging early has made a huge difference. Your last video helped me a lot and I think this one will too
Deadflipping is very important on Iron Maiden too!
Subscribed and liked 👍 I'm going to a pinball tournament and these tips should help, thanks!
It's for sure one of the best videos about nudging i've seen so far... !
Great series of pinball skills in detail. Very inspiring. Thank you!
Great tips and suprr funny video! Well done. Cheers from Brazil
These vids are the best I've found to help learn, thank you
Part 3 please!!!
Thanks for putting this together; very well edited and clear. The following is likely a testament to your skill but there are several examples (0:29, 2:59, 3:07) where I'm shocked that they didn't earn you a tilt (or at the very least a warning).
I'm not sure how or if the tilt was set up there. In some cases I removed it for recording reasons. Takes alot of time to always restart the ball if you get a danger since you will tilt on the next move and can't use the recording. However, I explained that those big moves will get you a warning, dispite you cant see the danger-lightshow kicking in.
@@AbeFlips Thanks for the insightful response; that you removed the tilt (for the video recording) makes some sense. I didn't pay enough attention at 0:38.
Love the videos, watched them all. Thankyou
U N D E R R A T E D channel. Absolutely incredible stuff!
This is pretty sick.
0:56 "you can't save every ball, sometimes you're just unlucky"
But do you think it would technically be possible to nudge as the ball is hitting the slingshot, to change the trajectory and save it? Obviously it's more unpredictable than a solid post, and it's designed to be, but is it technically possible to purposefully redirect a slingshot rebound higher or lower and avoid an outlane? I do see people nudge on slingshot hits but I don't know how effective it is.
Good question and I wanted to include that in part 3. Anyway, you are right with everything you are saying. You can increase the balls rebound by nudging the sling against the ball, thus forcing the ball up- out of the danger zone, or you can lower the rebound to get the ball down, especially if the ball is touching the slingshot on the lower part this helps to get it down to the flippers, avoiding a potential outlane drain. There is also a timing aspect to those nudges, with which I am not familiar yet. My problem with all this is, that I only have modern Sterns, it plays a bigger role with slower slings from what i have heard- and as you mentioned, its really hard to estimate the balls rebound angle well. However, I am nudging when the ball touches the sling most of the time and I feel like it does help, but from my testings I couldn`t tell if its really helping that much. If you can find the pinball 101 DVD, there is a short hint on how you can direct the rebound, essentially showing what I tried to explain here. But dont forget, you should avoid the slings in the first place by nudging early enough 🤓
Thanks, Very informative!
Incredible footage and explanations. It's impossible to explain it better!! THanks a lot for your time!
best tutorial videos !!!!!! the extreme amount of information, the clear explanation with arrows. LOVE IT!!!
My friend just linked me to your tutorials. Love it. Please do more!
This is fantastic, my nudging and slap save game are very weak and this helped explained what I need to watch out for.
Wow, I never heard about that wicked shimmy technique. I'm gonna have to give that shot next time I go to the arcade. Thanks for the tip!
Wow this is such a well made video. Thanks for making these. Now I can try and convince my friends pinball isn't random so they'll come play
After months of practicing, I executed my first successful Wicked Shimmy thanks to your demonstrations!! 😁 many thanks for helping to improve my skills!! 💪
Another awesome vid. Loving the small bits of humour. Well done!!
Thank you!
This is so cool!
That was amazing. Great work!
Slingshot avoidance tip is new to me. Appreciate it
Brilliant! So much to learn even after many years!
Some serious tips ! And awesomely filmed
Excellent tutorials! Thank you!
Danger Zone!
Love the synthwave music subscribe
"Don't stop until the job is done!" -- easy now. 😂
Love these Abe, keep them up! I think you might've been getting a little too intimate with the machine on that last 'wicked shimmy' though. ;)
💯
i do allot of wicked shimmies... and that without a pinball machine
How heavy are the machines? Are they normal weight? For some reason they look light and really “plasticky”
3:19 🤣
Doesn't this hurt your hands and arms a lot? The machine is heavy too. I love pinball, but only play Pinball FX, VPX etc. ... I have problems with my arms due to typing and clicking anyway so maybe nudging a real pinball table might not work for me.
Like with any sport, if done too much or too intensely, you can injure yourself. Therefore, I suggest playing and paying attention to your body's feedback. I know people who have played aggressively over decades without problems, but I am also aware of individuals with physical issues. Typically, the body tolerates playing pinball well, unless it is done to an extreme extent.
If you have RSI-related pain, pushing the buttons could aggravate the issue, but nudging should be well tolerated. You can reduce the resistance of the flipper buttons by adjusting the switches slightly, requiring less force to push the button. This adjustment helps me to play longer sessions (I also have RSI...)
@@AbeFlips Thanks for your reply! I had problems with my arms because of excessive typing and clicking for some years. Now it is about ok, but playing the piano or the guitar is still difficult. Playing digital pinball with my Switch Pro Controller is ok...but the main reason why I haven't bought a real machine or a real VPIN yet is standing behind the cab and pressing the buttons...sitting in front of the computer with a controller is better for my arms. Judging from your dialect, are you from Austria or Germany? I am from Austria. :)
@@leanderquest Yeah, I'm Tirolian. Look for a Pinball location near you and play for a few hours and see how it goes. Would be bad if you miss that opportunity and don't experience the feeling of owning a pinball machine. It's like one of the best things ever! I also have problems with guitar, but I learned to adapt... However, controller can still be bad for me.
@@AbeFlips Warst du schon mal im Prater in Wien? Da gibts anscheinend einige...auch Lord of the Rings, Medieval Madness...einige meiner Lieblings. In Vöcklabruck gibts die Flippsarena...aber ich weiß nicht, ob ich mal probieren soll. Ich hab in meinem Leben ca. 500 Stunden digital gespielt und 5 Minuten in echt, weil es keine Tische in meiner Nähe gab bzw. ich jetzt wegen der Arme nicht weiß. Aber ausprobieren sollte ich wohl mal. Wieso kannst du mit einem Controller nicht spielen? Die Tasten vom Switch Pro Controller sind einfach zum Drücken...einfacher als Flipperbuttons.
@@leanderquest Vöcklabruck spiel ich immer Liga und Wien war ich auch schon! Probiers aus! Ach, jeder hat so seine Eigenheiten was Beschwerden betrifft ;-)
Awesome eh…
How heavy are the machines? Are they normal weight? For some reason they look light and really “plasticky”
About 100 kg. Depending on how the legs are mounted there is more or less "wobble" to them when they get nudged.
It all depends how the machine is set up and mounted. My local pinball place had a Stranger Things pinball, and it was so loosely mounted that you could shake the thing with very little effort. Other tables there are really hard to nudge, and you really need to push hard to get them move anywhere. And these are all modern Stern pinball machines and variety of games from different eras.