When a ball is shot from one flipper, the ball gets stuck and is moved to the other flipper or the shooter lane by a tech or tournament director…
New Pinball Dictionary: Tech Pass / TD Pass
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Flipper Frenzied – by: Renkorama @renkorama_art
A short story about escaping into pinball.
Flipper Skills: Ski Pass
Abe Flips presents a flipper technique useful for regaining control of a high-speed moving ball, the Ski Pass.
Take a Flipper Break!
You are streaming, or just playing pinball in general. You are having a good game, but you need to take a break for some reason. What do?!
Arcade Hollywood: Baby Pac-Man flipper fix
Some of this video is focused on the fix, but the rest is focused on the food! What food? The food you can get from “The Hamburger Wagon”.
Zen and the Art of Flipper Maintenance
A detailed discussion on adjusting, maintaining and repairing your JJP flipper assemblies.
Flipper Physics 3.0
The Pinball Arcade have announced improvements to their flipper physics system. Now players can do some flipper tricks with more consistency.
New Pinball Dictionary: Tap Pass
A flipper trick accomplished by quickly and lightly hitting the flipper button so the ball hops from one side to the other.
Let’s Play: Gator
I think I may be prejudiced against mini flippers. Yes, even zipper mini flippers.
New Pinball Dictionary: Inlane Pass / Return Lane Transfer
As the ball is headed down the inlane, it may be moving fast enough such that the player can simply hold the flipper up to allow the ball to carry over to the opposite flipper.
New Pinball Dictionary: Loop Pass
This is a skillful way to bring speedy orbit shots back under control. As the ball is heading back towards the flipper from an orbit, the player drops the flipper just as the ball hits it.
New Pinball Dictionary: Post Pass
Sometimes when a player has a ball trapped on a flipper, they really want it to be on the opposite flipper to attempt a particular shot. One way to accomplish this is to flip quickly so that the ball bounces off of the bottom of the slingshot and over to the other flipper.