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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 284377" data-attributes="member: 134">Bowen makes it look easy, but if it were then everyone would be doing it! I've pulled some off in FX3 using the pro physics, but it's tough. Practice on Fish Tales when launching the ball. Hold that left flipper up, and then experiment with your timing to do the live catch. I've found you have to do that quick button release/press earlier than you think to pull it off. It's going to take quite a few launches before you finally get a live catch, and then quite a few more before you can replicate it. Then of course it's going to take a crap load more to get to the point where you feel you can pull it off more often than not. And then the real fun begins, doing a live catch with the ball coming from anywhere else on the table than what you've been practicing.One other thing about those tutorials. I own an Eight Ball Deluxe machine, so I watched Bowen's video on that. He was doing a particular flipper trick that was letting him nail the 8 ball drop target from the right flipper with ease. I tried and tried on my machine, and the ball wasn't even remotely doing what was the initial step to setting up the subsequent shot! A bit later, I changed out my rubber on the table and I'll be damned if I wasn't able to set up the shot now the way he did. Turns out that was the easy part though, as learning the timing to then hit that shot from that flipper has still eluded me. Point being, just because he can do it doesn't mean you can, and a lot depends on how the machine is even set up.</blockquote>

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