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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slam23" data-source="post: 244294" data-attributes="member: 896">True.The first time I got to play real pins again at some regular frequency a couple of years ago, I played quite a lot of TPA beforehand and I got my @ss handed to me in no uncertain fashion. I just couldn't translate any of my TPA playing experience, actually handicapping me especially on tables that I also played in TPA because I expected them to behave like it's TPA counterpart. That's no knock on TPA because quite a few of the tables behave a lot like the IRL version, but more in broad strokes in that shots that can be made are similar, or flow in combo's compare, or a kickout behaves the same. Now that I play both on a regular basis, I do see some crossover, especially in flipper techniques like deadpassing, flipper passing, flipper saves, cradling, post transfers and the like. The one thing that's too dissimilar is nudging. I'm quite good at TPA nudging (which is also far too easy, because the effect is too strong and predictable) and I really suck at IRL nudging, although my outlane saves have been improving somewhat. So after a couple of years of playing, I feel that TPA is helping my IRL play but not on all aspects. Beside technique TPA is offcourse very good for your table knowledge.</blockquote>

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