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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 288116" data-attributes="member: 134">I'm gonna recommend a couple of courses of action for you to try, see if we can't nudge you in the right direction.First, pick a table to concentrate on. For the purposes of this post, let's say Fish Tales. You are going to play Fish Tales for a week in Classic Single Player using only Arcade physics. This does two things; it allows you to really get used to the timing of shots on one table, thus creating solid muscle memory, and by playing with Arcade it'll build up your reaction time and ball awareness as well as get a feel for how the ball should really move around the table as opposed to how it does with TPA or Zen physics.It's important to understand that during this week, you are not trying for high scores or beating wizard modes. You are simply learning the physics and shots. With Fish Tales, first things first is figuring out how to control the ball and getting it cradled on your flippers. Dead flips are going to become your new best friend. Once you have that, start figuring out how to consistently hit the right orbit. When you can nail it on cue 70% of the time, make the adjustment of flipping slightly earlier in order to hit the ball lock. Once that becomes second nature, start practicing the left orbit.To be clear, when I say practice a shot I truly mean that. If you find the ball on your right flipper, figure you how best to get it over to the left flipper so you can go back to attempting that shot or vice versa. This is how you'll get used to the physics and be able to control better.Allow yourself to play a proper game now and then to break up the monotony, but mostly suffer with lots of drained balls and failed shots and keep at it. After a week of this, go play a match in basic Single Player. You should have superb control now over the ball, the table is much more forgiving on shots so you'll be able to progress much easier, and the whole things will feel slower to you. Essentially this is using the old theory in sports that if you truly want to get better, you need to compete against players that are much better than you. In this instance, it's playing with physics that are much more demanding.</blockquote>

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