Who does not know this game? Anybody not know Whirlwind? Everybody knows Whirlwind. I kind of figured. Let's see, how loud do we have it? See? She's so good, she knows what a star button is. So, of course, you got the skill shot, these drop targets right here. Do you know about the skill shot? Okay, so what I want to do is, I want you to play on your own. Okay. I want you to play one game on your own, and then see what you do, okay? And then I want to give you pointers and see if I can improve your score. Okay. Does that sound good? That sounds good. This is Sierra, by the way. How long have we known each other? Seven years. Yeah. We had to sleep on a couch together like six years ago. We didn't even know who we were. No, it wasn't together, but... Alright. So, go ahead. And I'm going to be quiet the whole time. Wow, look at that. Uh-oh. I like the blue display in the back. Yeah, she said she has no whoppers, right? Ah, okay. Oh, you got the million? Did you shoot the ramp? All right. No, I think the million came out of the drop. All right. Now, again, the big thing with pinball is knowing the rules. Luckily, an 80s game, it's pretty easy, rule-wise, to know what to do. I'm still trying to figure out how you got that million. I thought that's the only thing I was shooting for. Right, but you lit it. I don't know if you made the ramp. All right. Okay, now can we take the glass off? Is that cool? Yeah. Is that all right? All right. All right. I realize the lights are going to go crazy. So $1,850,000. So that's pretty good. Now, after I teach you, you've got to make sure you get more than that score. Otherwise, I'm not going to look good. Oh, look at that. The light stayed on it. Ah, all right. Oh, whose game is this, by the way? It's the game's. Okay. Just in case I break it, unfortunately, you know, we had a little problem with Johnny Mnemonic and with a flipper. I know, always, yep. I do that at work too. Oh no, that's a slam till. All right, so now what I want you to do, so do you know the rules of the game? So, okay, so we'll start the game. Sorry. So you have these different directions, right? You have that shot, that, this one, and the lane, all right? You need to get all four of those and then that leg to lock up here. All right, when you plunge I want you to do it softly. I want you to try to hit these targets. Okay, and I want you to try to hold the ball on the flipper. So when the ball is close to the flipper, you know, just try to catch it and then hold it on one flipper. All right. So nice and easy. Very good. I'm not trying to... okay. Okay now hold the left flipper up. and keep it up the whole time. See how it comes out? Okay, now hold the right flipper up. Now hold it, hold it. Okay, there you go. Now, see, this is control. I try to teach people control with flippers. It's a lot easier making a shot when you have control of the flippers. So now what you want to do is try to, see if you can backhand that, all right? If you do, the million shot is the ramp now because you lit it through here. Okay. Again, yep. Now, try to get control. Okay. Okay, now, see, when it's coming really fast, you're not going to be able to hold it up. So you want to just flip away. So, again, just flip it nice and easy, or pull it nice and easy. That's okay. That's okay. So now you want to try to hit the, yep, try to hit that scoop there. There you go. Now you want to shoot right here because you got to hold that flipper up again. Now hold the right flipper up. Now keep it up. Now, do you see every single time it comes out of here, she's holding the left flipper up, holding the right flipper up, and it's bouncing over, and now you get control. A lot of people, when it comes out of a scoop or when it comes out of a hole, they just flip it, and you never know where the ball is going to go. I always like to have complete control and try to catch it on one of the flippers And that's one thing that's hard to do because especially newbies You're always just trying to flip it to make sure that it doesn't go down, but you always want to hold it up Okay, so now Now you know how to transfer from this flipper to that flipper. Okay, so I want to do a post transfer so this ball Can you see it? All right? Hit this ball against here bounce it up and have it go over there now Now it's not easy. Oh there it goes. Now shoot the shot. Okay, again, good. No, you're good, Sierra. Now hold that flipper up, remember? Hold it up. Now catch it with the other. Now you're fine. Okay, try it again and then shoot that shot. Okay, very good. Now what you want to do is a quick flip. There you go. Oh! But you've got to get used to it though. That's the thing. Every machine is different about transferring the ball from one flipper to the other. Sometimes you just barely touch it. touch it, other times you hit it really hard. Nice and easy. Okay, good. Now you want to hit that shot. Okay, now hold it. Now the same thing. Catch it there and let it bounce over. So you're going to catch it on this flipper. There you go, very good. Now try transferring it. Nice and easy. There you go. Almost, almost. Okay, there you go, there There you go. Now see, she got a little nervous there, but eventually she caught it. Okay, so now hit the ramp. Okay, almost. Very good. Never leave the flipper up. Alright, there you go. But you're getting control, so you do it again. And I'm telling you, you've got to practice and practice and practice because it doesn't come right away. All right, so let's try it again. Now try it this time when you do it softly, look where the tip, can you see that where my finger is? Look at the tip of the plunger and see how far back you're going. There's a black line, a yellow line, and so right now, sorry I don't want to invade your space. right now you're on the middle of the first black line. So go ahead. Now you're in the middle of the first yellow. Okay, so that was a little too hard. Now try to... So the first thing you want to do is try to get control of the ball. Let it bounce. Okay, catch it. So catch it right there. There you go. See that? Now you got control, and now shoot that shot if you can. It's not the easiest. Get in there. Try to catch it. Now you're going to have to shoot it because you see how it was coming up? It was coming too fast. Now hold the left flipper up and then catch it with the right. Oh, that was bad. That was a bad... The kick-out's not always going to kick out the same. So you always have to be careful. When the trajectory is a little bit close to the middle, then you've got to watch out like, uh-oh, I can't do what I wanted to do. Okay, now that was too hard before. So go to the first black, first black line with a tip. So keep going back, right, keep going, right there. Okay so that was a little too hard too. Catch it. You can. Go. Always, no, keep the flippers down. You never want to have the flipper up if the ball is, you know, you never know where it's coming. Okay, now you have to shoot it. Well that's good. Now you have to flip it. Okay, oh that was weird. Now just hold the flipper up again. Okay, now top flipper. Top flipper again. Almost. Good job. Very good. See how she tipped it off? She hit it off the tip of the flipper. Now hold that flipper up. Okay, hold it. Now again, very nice save. There's not much you can do about that. But again, the more control you get, the better scores you're going to get. Okay, so go like this. Go see right about there. See how the tip is flush with this? Try that. Right about there. Oh, okay, so that's a little bit too hard. Now hold it, okay. Now, yeah, now try not to keep the flippers up when the ball is coming down. Ah, you're in trouble. Oh, very nice. Now, again, hold the left flipper up, and then get ready to catch it on the right. Catch, now, yep, there you go, and leave it there. Now, try to backhand that extra ball. It's not easy. And obviously extra balls are very important. And, ah, darn it. All right, so let me play a game, and I'm going to kind of demonstrate what I want you to do. Okay, so I'm looking for the skill shot. Okay, that was good. So now the first thing you go for, right, you go for this. And then pull the flipper up. A little wobbly, huh? And so almost 90% of the time you're going to be able to just catch it over here. So let's try to transfer it like that and then shoot whatever. Now the million is up top. So what I want to do is obviously I want to try to shoot the rim. So again, all I'm trying to do is catch the ball. Catch the ball so I can make the next shot. Now let's see if I can backhand that. Not quite. Some whirlwinds you can backhand and others you can't. So again, all I'm trying to do is catch the ball any way I can catch the ball. So that's the shot I need. And again, don't be afraid. So what I just did was a drop catch. When the ball's coming fast, I stop the ball like that. Now that's really hard to do because you've got to time it right. But if you practice it, eventually you'll get it. And I know you'll get it because you're good. So again, I'm going to shoot the ramp. So now I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to get the four directions yet again. Once I get the four directions, this one, this one, that one, and around here. So again, I'm going to look. So come on this side, Sierra. So you see the tip, the tip of the plunger. The tip of the plunger is almost flush with this thing, right? And then when you let it go, look at that. Now see how I let it bounce because I want the ball of this flipper. So that's 300,000 just hitting that. If you can hit two of them, it's 500,000, which is quite a bit. So now I want to hit the shots that are dangerous. That's a dangerous shot. This is a very dangerous shot, but you have to go for it because to get multiball, you have to hit the shots. And again, you just want to try to have control. So now, now see how I let it bounce because I want that. So I want the ball on this flipper. So you let it bounce to get over there, but you got to be calm about it because sometimes you can really panic. So let's see if I can transfer this ball over here. Nope, not quite. Now again, when the ball is coming, I try to catch it like this. You try to catch it. So, you know, if you hold the flipper up, it may work, but it may not. You may go like that and you'll be out of control. Now that's the perfect transfer. what you call an alley pass, but we'll get into that later. That's shatzing. And on this game, you don't need to really. So now, look, uh-oh. So I'm very calm when the ball is getting close to the middle. You got to try to look and see, is it coming closer to one flip or the other? So now look, so now we're going to go the same place, right? Can you see the tip? The tip is right there. And then look at that, 500,000. It is very consistent. If you hit the drop targets, what happens every time? It'll hit this flipper, and you just let it bounce over. Don't panic. Don't try to do anything, because now you're going for multiball. So here we go. Uh-oh, don't do that to me. So now, you want to hit the ramp as many times, but I still want to have control. So now, I'm just trying to do anything I can. Oh, that was bad. Now let's see if I can get one for the road. Oh, give me another one. Oh. So again now that might go down Now do you see Well yeah So I gave it a little nudge but there a center post on this game Not in a tournament And I gave it a nudge to kind of bounce it back up. So you saw that it went it hit here and bounced up. So now I'm back to square one. I have to get all the different directions, alright? But I also have this lit. And you want to complete all these. If you complete all these, then you're doing real good. Oh, bad. Now again, you see how I let it bounce so that I could catch it. Otherwise, it would have flipped away. So try to backhand it. And again, what do you do? Hold this up. So here we go. Now, again, it's not always going to work because you saw what happened with you. One time it hit here, and it went right down the middle. So sometimes what I do is I'll give it a little nudge like that. Okay, but that was a little too much. But you see how it moved it way over. So if I give it a little nudge like that, all I'm doing is kind of when it hits this I'm glancing it over But you don't really need to do that, but some games you do all right, so this is a hard shot right here I'm going to try to hit that Now that was my fault because I thought it was going to hit the sling and it hit the tip of the flipper So that's my bad But still we're at six million, which is pretty good So again, what we're going to do is we're going to go to the tip here. See right here? Oh, that was bad. But again, it was the same thing here. Hold the flipper up, let it bounce over. Extra balls lit. I love extra balls. Oh, they left extra balls on. We're in trouble now. Okay, so again, all I'm trying to do is get control. And it might seem boring that all you try to do is catch the ball and then shoot it, But trust me, your scores will be better if you have the ball on a flipper shooting a shot rather than just flipping around. Alright, so again, now look, I gave it a little nudge and you see it nudged it and it hit up here. So again, you have to be very subtle with the nudges. Now, I need to hit this. So let's hit that. Now again, as soon as the ball came, it's what you call a drop catch. You just hold it, the ball's coming, like that, and you just kind of hold the flipper up. You've got to try to time it right. If it's coming too hard, it's going to bounce over. So now I want to transfer, right? So we do that again, and then you catch it over here, and then we shoot the rim. And again, this takes a lot of practice. Every game is different. The older games can be a little tougher than the newer games. So again, so here we go, Sierra. So we're going to tip flush with that. Almost. Now, I gave it a little nudge up because it was about ready to go down. And when I nudged it up, it moved it over this way more. So nudging is very, very important. So again, I'm going to transfer the ball over like that. Now I need to hit this, which is dangerous. Ah. Again, so this time I held the flipper up to get the ball over here. Oh. Okay, the ramp is always good. You always want to shoot the ramp. Uh-oh. Okay, so that's just bad luck. Not much you can do about that. I could have tried to give it a nudge when it was on the side here. All right, so here we go. So let's try to get this right again. All right, missed it. Now see what I'm doing? I'm trying to catch the ball when it hits this flipper. As soon as it hits here, as soon as it... Maybe the glass off is bad here. You guys got the idea. It's so much easier to do it in regular play. So I want to try to shoot the ramp a few times. All right? Now bounce it over. See that? Now I got a quick multiball lit, which is a rule of this game. Every time you hit the ramp, this thing, that drop target, will advance. So again, I transfer it over, I want to hit the ramp, and I don't want to do that. Now I wanted to pass it over, but unfortunately I didn't. Now that time it kicked it right to the flipper. But either way, holding this flipper up was good. Alright, so again, I'm trying to slow the ball down. Get up there, will ya? What's going on, huh? It just goes up the ramp it comes back down. Alright so hold the left flipper up and look at that didn't have to nudge it or do anything. So now I want to transfer it over I need to hit this shot right there alright. Bounce it over oh now you saw how it didn't really bounce much sometimes these rubbers these look like the fancy silicone rubbers the newer ones sometimes they don't have much of a bounce so it's trial and error you learn the hard way. All right, so I need to hit the two green shots. Now, I got the ramp right there. Now, the ramp, now see what happens? When the ball comes down here, you try to catch it. So, the whole game, all I'm trying to do is just keep control of the ball. So, now, transfer it over, and if I control the ball like that, I'll sit here for a second, and then shoot the shot, right? So, that's two locks, right? I think so. All right, so now, are we ready for multiball. Oh, so this time around, the second time you get multiball, you have to hit the ramp to start it. So again, I'm still doing the same, no, I'm not doing the same skill shot. If you pull it all the way back, it usually goes around to this flipper. And you want to get the ball to this flipper so you can try to shoot multiball. So instead of doing the short plunge, as we say, to get a couple hundred thousand, you want to go around to get the multiball. So let's see if it goes around. It did. And I missed it. Uh-oh, extra ball, that's not good. Now again, I'm letting it bounce over, right? Now look at that, I didn't flip at all. I just let the ball do its thing, and once it got to a flipper, you stop. So now, you want to shoot... Oh my gosh, what is going on with that? Ha! Now again, all I'm trying to do is control the ball. Almost. Now, I kind of held it with the top flipper. That's kind of a cool move. Now, so what I want to do here, I want to try to get control of the ball, right? Okay, so now look. Oh, look at this. Oh, I'm getting greedy now. It's harder to control three balls than it is two, obviously. But what I'm trying to do is control... All right, here we go. Okay, so see that? So there's the jackpot. So there's two million. So all I'm trying to do is get a ball up to the top, and I'm trying to hold something. I'm trying to either hold one ball, two balls, or all three. So a cradle separate, which I know you hear Bowen talk a lot about. I'm going to try to pop this ball. Why are you doing a ball search, man? I'm going to try to pop this ball up and have it bounce over to this flipper. So you do a quick hit like that, and then now I can choose. Oh, my gosh. Now, can you guys see? See how I'm only flipping the top flipper, right? This is what you call stage flip. So if you let go of the button a little bit, the top flipper is going to go down. You see that? So what I'm trying to do is I'm going to try to hit the hole up there and then have the ball come to this flipper and shoot the jackpot. So here we go. Oh, I want to stay in there. You're being so mean. Why is it being so mean to me? I'm not that mean, right? You know me. All right, here we go. Are you ready? Oh! No, I missed it. So here we go again. So flip one real fast. And that was my bad, but that's okay. It's a lot easier with two balls, trust me. Again, all I'm trying to do is just separate these two balls to where I'm trying to get control. Now, I can't catch that. That, almost. Come on, come on. Oh! Nope, not quite. We're getting there. But see how it's a lot easier to play multiball when you only have one ball going around, right? Come on, be nice to me. Uh-oh. It wasn't nice. So now you just, you do it again. So hold this flipper up and again it's very repetitive. So now I want to shoot this shot and what lights this shot is this side rim. So hold the flipper up, there it is. Now this is good about 80-90% of the time. I want to hit this and I want to hit that. So let's go for that one. Now see, I tried to hold the flipper up, I didn't quite make it. Let it bounce over. Now you backhand that one. Now don't flip yet and you say that was meatball. Pretty good. We're getting up there. We're not quite where I want to be yet, but we're getting up there. Are you learning anything? Okay good. Are you guys learning anything? All right. Okay so again, so now we're going to go back to trying to hit these. So you kind of put your head over it. Look at that. Oh almost. Now look, I got no points. Okay you see that, see how the score is still blinking, right, I'm going to take the ball away, the score is still blinking, so I can let the ball go, and I'll get it back, doesn't work on every game, a lot of the old school games, like the 70s, you do that, you get zero points, and you'll still lose the ball, so here we go, so we're going to try to hit targets, oh, there it is, let it bounce over, try to catch it, nope, so you kind of have to be the judge, how far up the lane does it have to go, Right say it's up here. Is it gonna go? Nope if it's right in the middle of the lane, then you're good So once it gets past the lane, then you're like, oh, I can't just hold the flipper up because it's gonna go up and over So here we go. I want to hit this Okay, not much I could do with that There's not much there's a little tilt I Don't want to shake it too much to where you get the wrong idea that oh you can just shake it out and you'll be fine All right, so here we go again. That was good. Oh That was me do you see that That was a good use of the center post, but it say you know what you're playing this game too long I'm gonna go up and over all right. Do I have one more ball left, maybe No, I don't I didn't get a high score. Okay, so now let's see Now if you beat that score, I'll give you a hundred bucks. Okay, 15 billion I'll give you a hundred bucks and then you'll never allowed it to be at my seminars again. All right Okay, so what you want to do is nice and easy to where the tip is flush with the top there. Okay, that's okay Okay, there you go. Very nice. See look at that. That's very very good Now you're only 15 billion away. Okay, so now let it bounce. Okay, hold it left right flip around. Okay now you have to shoot it Okay Now it's coming around the top. Try to hit the ramp. Very good. Now hold the right flipper up. Just hold it up. Okay. Now, I knew it would work because when I shot the ramp and held it up, the ball came right to the right flipper. It's not going to do it every single time, but you have to notice the patterns of the game. If it's going to do it most of the time, then try it. You know, try to hold that flipper up and see what happens. Okay, so again, you want to shoot that. Oh, that's okay. okay now you're going to shoot it very good okay now keep up ah now see that time the best thing you could have done was kind of nudge it up a little bit when it hit this post because it if it hits the post off-center it's going to hit the tip of the flipper and you're going to be in trouble if you nudge it sometimes let the tip of the flipper and I'll bounce up a little bit. Okay, so now get to the tip, get to the top there. Oh, not quite. You got to pull it. Remember, the very tip you want flush right about there. A little bit more right there. Oh, okay. That's okay. Oh, boy. Now, top flipper. Try to hit the shot. Oh, look at that. That's okay. There you go. Good job. Very good. Look at that. Oh, she's only 14 million. I'm I'm going to have him pay the $100. Okay? All right. So, same thing. Nice and easy. Try to get the tip of the flipper. Okay. There you go. Now, again. Now, hold it. There you go. So, now, again, you want to shoot this. Okay. Uh-oh. There you go. Now, hold the flipper up, remember? And hold the right flipper up. See that? So again that works so much the time if you ever get you ever feel like you're getting flustered in a game And now you're shooting that guess what now you're in control again. All right, so now you want to shoot that Now she's already beat her score that she got the first the the first game oh Flip there you go good job Okay Now remember hold that flipper up Now that time now hold it up you should be fine Okay good That time it kicked it out a little bit more toward the center but she didn get nervous Now oh top flipper almost Catch it okay now you got to shoot it Oh, if it comes straight down the middle, remember don't flip the ball at all, just try to hit the post and let it bounce up on its own. But you still almost got two million now. Okay right about there. I think that's it. No it's hard for me to see on this angle. Okay so now okay okay good now try to get it back over here. Catch it. Okay up there. Oh there hold it okay now now you want to shoot the ramp because you have the second lock lit. So hold the flipper up. Okay, yep. You saw how that works. Uh-oh. Okay, good job. Those wheels make it really hard sometimes. Now you could have held that flipper up and caught it, but it's okay. There you go. See that? Now shoot the ramp for the second lock, all right? Same thing. Hold the flipper up. Oh, now that time you flipped instead. Oh, Uh-oh. Very good. Oh, there's not much you could have done. But now look, she's at two and a half million. So just controlling the ball, and she's improving her score. And we could all do that by controlling the ball. So that was really good. So you almost got multiball. I want to see you get multiball now. I know. I could. Well, play one more game first, and then I will. So again, you want to get right. The tip is there. Let it bounce, let it bounce. Oh, it's okay. Hold this up. Now she got 500,000 points for that skill shot. So all she did was hit these two drop targets off the plunge because she knew how far to pull it back, and she's already over half a million. And a lot of people, especially newbies, it'll take a couple balls to get a half a million, especially if people don't know what they're doing. But once you start knowing what you're doing, you're going to improve your score. Okay, so try to backhand anything over here. Okay, now you have to shoot it. There you go. Now, okay. Now, yeah, there's not much you could have done. You could have let the ball bounce when it was up here and caught it on here, but that's okay. All right, so again, saves exactly what you did last time. Ooh, let it bounce. Oh, that's okay. 300,000 more. So, 800,000 points just on plunging the ball right. Pretty good. Okay, now hit that. Oh, almost. Now catch it. All right. There you go. See, that's what I call catch and shoot. Instead of catching the ball and holding the ball, she caught it and then just shot the shot. So, that's good. Now, again, skill shot. Oh. Okay, that's all right. Catch it. Now you have to shoot it. Okay, yep, there you go. Very good. Right flipper, hold up. Catch the left flipper. Now, see that? Okay. Oh, look at that. Oh, you got nervous. I got nervous, too. So when it's coming down here, it's almost like it's coming out of here. You do the same thing with the right flipper. You let it bounce and come up over here, just like you do when it comes over there. Now, you want to hit... Do you have a ball locked? Oh, you do. Look at that. So, backhand that, but you have to do it really fast. So, as soon as you let the flipper go, shoot the shot. Because last time, you waited a little bit, and it shot over this way. So, you have to time where you're shooting the ball of the flipper to. Okay, you almost did a transfer. Hold the flipper up. Very good. Now, shoot it again. Almost. Hold the flipper up. Now wait a little bit longer before you shoot it. A little bit longer. Almost. Hold the flipper up. Very good! Look at that! That looks like me! Oh no, I'm getting scared. Okay, hold that flipper up. Hold the other one up. Alright, that's okay. So now, your quick multiball is lit. So what you want to do is you want to hit that. Okay, are you... Oh, look at that! Okay, almost. Very good. I didn't even have to tell you what to do. Look at that, she's up 2 million already. Alright, here we go. There you go, now you've got to shoot it. Almost, almost. Good catch. See that? Look at that. Alright. She caught the ball and then shot the multiball shot. Now what you want to do, you want the ball in this top flipper, right? You want to shoot it all the way back and try to hit that. But what's going to happen is as soon as you hit something, it's also going to kick the ball up there. So let's see if you can get either this ball or the one up there around so go ahead here we go Almost Almost it's coming again. Oh, okay now So now it's hard try to catch okay. Stop up tip it flip there you go now leave it there hold that flipper up Now did you have just let it go ah? There we go all right here We go now what you want to do you want to do a quick flip to get this top ball up here Don't panic. Let it bounce and try to get over here. Eventually, shoot it out. But before you do that, I want you to let go of this flipper just a little bit to let this flipper down. See that? Look at that. It's so easy. A caveman can do it. No. You remember those commercials? You got to be as old as me. Okay. Don't worry about it. Okay. So now you want to pop this up. You want to try to pop this up and see if you get it down and cut out, right? That's okay. Hold that flipper up. Don't hold that one up. There you go. Now, hit him. Okay. Now, again. Okay, so watch this. You want to go like this. Quick. Quick. Okay, a little bit. Yep. There you go. Almost. There you go. Oh, you're close. Again, you've got to get the feel for it. So let go a little bit longer, but not much longer. Oh, darn it. It's not so easy. Okay, so now you want to get control. You have lock, let's shoot the rep right now. Oh, yes. Okay, now you want to hit this, but again, you want to pull it back right flush here. That way... Okay, that's okay. Now you... Okay. Don't do that! That's so mean, ball! That's ball two, though, so you got one more chance. The ideal shot now is to plunge the ball to hit the drops, let it bounce off this flipper to here, and then shoot the multiball shot, okay? I'm rooting for you. Okay, catch it. There you go. Now shoot the multiball shot. Ah! I love it. I created a monster. Okay, pay attention to that ball. Try to shoot the ramp right now. Alright, now, now. Oh! No, no, no! Okay, now, shoot, yeah, go for the ramp. Very nice! Hold the right flipper up. I think it'll give you credit. All right, good job, good job. So now you want to pull it all the way back. You want to try to shoot that ramp. It's worth two million. Oh, she did it! Oh, yes! Hold the flipper up. Oh, flip, flip, flip! Okay. Yep, hold that one ball. Oh, she got a free game. We're kicking her out. Very good. All right. Excellent job! Look at you! What are you up to now? Five and a half million points. Now tell the audience, would you have got five and a half million points? I love it. Now you see that? And the more she plays, the more she's going to get the feel for the game. This is what, game three or four? You started out with a million six, and then you jumped up to what, two and a half? And now look, you over-doubled your score. How do you feel? Does that feel good? That's awesome. Okay, so now again, you want to shoot that, yep. Oh, good, yep. Almost. Not, uh-oh, uh-oh. There's not much you could have done there. But I saw you did try to catch it when it come to the tip of the flipper. Pretty good. Now that was a three-ball game right there. If you were in a tournament, so let's put it this way. In the World Championship, I only got 6,600,000. Okay? And you almost got what I got in the world championship. That's pretty darn good. Can you believe that? I can't believe it. All right. No, I believe it. All right. So now let's... Okay. There you go. See? Once you get the feel and you see what the ball is going to do before it does it, it's very easy. It's a lot easier to catch the ball and control it. Okay. So here we go. Try to bounce it over. Catch it. Alright, so now what I want you to do is, you're in an arcade, the first thing you want to do is get an extra ball, right? So I want you to try to backhand this, but try to get it here. It's not easy, it's a really hard shot. Oh, you're so close. Oh, okay, shoot the ramp. Almost. Uh-oh. There you go. Now see how you let it bounce? Now try to shoot the extra ball. Get the extra ball, as Arnold will say. Uh-oh. There you go. Look at that. See? When it comes here, you hold the flipper up, bounces over. Hold the right flipper up. Look at that. Try to transfer it. Look at that. Okay, good job. Very nice. Off the tip of the flipper. You even got me going. Okay, now try to transfer it, just like you did. Okay? Not bad. Not bad. Okay? Hold the right flipper up. Or left flipper, I mean. I don't know left from right. apparently. Okay, all right and again transfer it over. That's good enough. Yep, now hold the ball. It should stay on the flipper. Nope, okay good job. See the reaction? As soon as it got to the tip she knew it wasn't gonna stay, gave it a little flip and now we're back on the other flipper. Okay, transfer it. Uh-oh. Nice and easy. Nice and easy. Hold on, let it settle. There you go. Oh, she got the extra ball! Oh, look at that! On a good transfer. Okay, hold the flipper up. Okay, so now... Let it hit the mail. Oh, look at that! Oh, she nudges it off the center post. Oh my gosh, you're scaring me. Okay. So now... Yep, so now you know exactly what... Look at that! Oh, she almost did the combo. Combo. Okay, now... Shoot. Okay. pull the flipper up. Oh, look at that. Now that time it actually stayed. A lot of whirlwinds will actually stay on the flipper. So now you want to hit, try to hit this one on the backhand. Okay. What you want to do is hit both yellows. Hey, you're not allowed to get 15 million, by the way. I don't want him to have to give you a hundred. Yeah, I don't want him to have to give you a hundred bucks. Luckily I drove the taxi a lot over the past week. Okay, hold the flipper up. All right, that's good. Good job. Keep trying to shoot that ramp. See that? Very repeatable shot. Keep doing it. Look at that. One more time. Almost. Now shoot that shot. Okay, very nice. Oh, look at... Gosh, I'm starting to get like, what's going on here? Okay, hold the flipper up. And then hold that. Good job. Is this game easy? No, this time it's easy. Alright, so try to transfer and then try to shoot the rim. Nice and easy. Relax. There you go. Okay, that's okay. Now we try again. Alright. Alright. Transfer it over. Almost. Uh-oh. Okay, there we go. That's fine. Now, hold it. Now, you could have caught that, but that's all right. Good job. Good job. So, now shoot. Shoot the ramp. Now, yeah, there's not much you can do. But she had the right idea nudging it up. The problem is when it hits the corner of the post, that's when you're in trouble. Oh, my gosh. You're halfway there. Oh, my God. Okay. Okay, so go to the tip here. Yep, there you go. Nice. Look at that. See how immediately she catches the ball. Immediately she's in control. Now shoot the rim. Oh, that was bad. Oh, up there. That's when you say, Norman, they screwed me. Now hold the right flipper up. Okay, that's fine. Left flipper. Now you've got to shoot it. Oh, bad luck there. That's pretty darn good. What's the highest score you ever got in this game? Probably like 5 million. Okay, so the highest score she ever got was 5 million. and she beat that by 50 of the score What do you guys think So I mean she the one that deserves it But again it all about control It all about don just flip the ball when it comes to you. Try to stop it. So now we're going to do some tricks, right? So this is where we're going to have a little fun. So we're just going to throw the ball up there and that's not what I want. What I want to do is just try to catch. So do you see how the ball tipped? Basically I tipped the ball over here. So I just put it up. Now look right there. That's what you call a live catch. So when the ball's coming down here, as soon as it gets to here, you flip it and it stops the ball. It's not the easiest thing to do, but eventually, again, that was a tip. So I tip the ball from this tip of the flipper over and I give it a nudge so it goes in the direction I want it to go. So we'll just go up here and that's a bounce pass. So it bounced on this flipper and it bounced up and over and of course you know that the post pass one way, the post pass the other way and you know you can do that but again you got to get the feel. Now if I do it too hard watch what happens. Well that time it worked but let's see what happens on this flipper. See that? It doesn't quite work. So sometimes you've got to be really hard with it, and other times you've got to be really easy with it. And this one, you know, you kind of have to be easy with this one. So again, let's just kind of play, you know, play the game as I'm doing, like that right there. But that was terrible. I tried to catch it, but I didn't catch it. So here we go too hard so do it nice and easy like that and so if if you could always get the ball the flipper you want then you're really going to be doing well because you know if the balls on this flipper and you're like oh no I need to shoot the ramp for two million what am I going to do and you start shooting away you might lose the ball but if you go like that and then shoot the ramp then you get your two million and you can possibly win or beat whoever again so what I do a lot is the tip okay so a lot of times with me now see what I just did there the ball was up here I knew if it came all the way down it was gonna go out so as soon as it gets to here you flip and you actually flip it against here to get the ball to stop or you can do what you call a rolling post pass say here we go I'm gonna give a little nudge over see that I gave it a little nudge over to help it out so it didn't bounce here and go down. So again, I want the ramp so I want to transfer it over. Sometimes it'll be clean. Other times you'll have to do it on the fly. And there it is. So again, we're doing the skill shot, which I didn't do in the beginning. So that was kind of a, I don't know what you call this move, but what I'm doing is I'm trying to slow the ball down. It's almost like a drop catch. Like you go like that. You see what I mean? Because if it's coming down and it goes like that, you can let it bounce over, but if I want it on this flipper, then I've got to do whatever I can do to keep it on this flipper. Again, that was the drop catch. As soon as it hit here, I flipped the ball to settle it down. So now I want to pass it over. I want to shoot right there. See that? So that's a live catch. So that ball was screaming down here, but if you hit it at the right time, you saw how nice and easy it just stopped right there. It's not the easiest skill, but once you get some practice with it, you'll get better and then you'll get more control. So let's pass it over. What do I need? I need the ones that I don't like the most. Now see what I did? I let it bounce. Alright. Bounce. See that? Now this flipper doesn't, for some reason this particular rubber doesn't bounce as, like, see that? It doesn't bounce much, but this one seems to bounce more. sees the bounce more. So when you're playing a game, you say, oh, I can't bounce it from this side because you saw what happened. It almost went down. Okay, so now I need this sucker, which I hate because it puts the ball out of control. But again, did you see how I caught it right here? So now I have control again. So now I shoot the shot. So here we go. Oh. So there's two ways to start multiball the first time around. You can shoot the ramp or shoot that. I like shooting that because it's safer, but let's kind of go crazy and try to go all the way around and shoot the round. Oh, look at that. Okay. Oh, no. That's definitely a normie. They screwed me. So again, see how you just catch the ball? You're just doing little subtle flips, and then you shoot the shot. Oh, normie, they screwed me again. and you just do the same thing. Oh, boy. Again, it's all about having control of the ball and the flipper. So now I want to shoot this. I want to try to control these two balls, right? Is it going to give it to me? No! That's okay. So here we go. Ah! Again, so all I'm trying to do is control one. Oh, here we go. Oh, that was bad. Now, this is what I wanted you to do. When you flip the ball like that, look at that. See how it separates? Oh, boy. Oh, come on, man. Bounce. No, no, no. I mean, that's a little trickery there. I can't even explain what that was. Ah! Get around it! Oh, and anybody that knows me, if I have a hard time making a shot, if you yell and scream and go, ah! It makes the ball go a little bit further. I don't know why it does, but somehow it works. I mean, I don't know. Uh-oh. Watch this bounce. Oh! Oh! Okay, so here we go. Watch. Oh, no, it didn't quite work. So again, all we're trying to do is control the balls, make the shots. Nope. Sarah, my yell's not working. What's going on? I'm not kicking. You know that. Oh, I need to kick? All right, ready? Oh, it worked. It worked. It worked. She's teaching me. Okay, ready? We're going to do that again. Oh, maybe. Where are we going? Come on, ball. Where are we going? Uh-oh. Oh no, I'm in trouble now. Oh boy. Here we go, you ready? Oh, it worked again! Oh my gosh, you guys learn something new every day. Just go like this and go, ah! And it goes around, you get three million. That's pretty good. How'd you know that? Oh, she watch me. All right, you ready? Oh boy. Okay, so here we go. Here we go. Ready? Oh no, that wasn't good. Oh boy. Okay, so again, you know, it's all about controlling the ball, and you showed everybody that you could get six and a half, what, seven and a half million points just by controlling the ball, recognizing the patterns of what's going to happen when the ball's coming out from one side, what's going to happen when the ball's coming out from the other side. And I mean, that's pretty good. What do you have to say? Thank you. Yeah? Yeah. You did great. That was pretty good. You think that was pretty good, huh? Yeah. I mean, and she wasn't sandbagging at the beginning. She was really trying. We saw how you have any game within lanes, if you have it at home and you take the glass off, you can just put the ball here, see how it rolls, put the ball there, see how it rolls, put the ball there, over and over again, and practice the individual parts of those skills. yeah it's pretty good one last thing i want to bring my friend ted up here so uh ted has been well i got my mic ted has been promoting amateur pinball uh in the state of florida where i'm from he runs flip frenzies for free to try to bring new people in and the whole thing about trying to teach the newer people how to play novice people how to play is it makes the game more fun Here, come up to the microphone. And he's my sponsor, too, so I have to thank him quite a bit. So tell everybody who you are and what you do in Florida and what your goal is. Yeah, thanks a lot. So first off, my name is Ted Techboy, and I got my first pinball when I was nine years old. And then I went on to college. I started my own company, and we make about $20 million in revenue a year. and last year, you know, Eric Stone becoming the world champion, I was, how do I get younger people into the sport of pinball? Because I would go out, I lived near UCF, and I would sometimes talk to the younger folks, and they would be like, what's pinball? And they thought it was paintball. And I was like, no. Or ping pong. Or ping pong. Oh, ping pong? No, no, pinball. So what I started doing was holding these free Flip Frenzy tournaments in Oviedo at District and, you know, do it other places. It's basically an hour long. I tried it at two hours. It didn't work. And one hour, it's very popular. And then I started a YouTube channel called Taz Pinball. And I sponsor Eric Stone. I pay for his flights, hotel, his food. Thankfully, he doesn't eat a lot. I do. But tell us a little bit about the latest tournament. So he's come up with this crazy tournament. You'll see it on IFPA. I had nothing to do with it. It's basically a game show. And what it is is it's a trivia-based game show, and players compete. They get the advantages, such as Eric Stone. But what's the whole object? What happens at the very end? What's the name of the tournament? At the very end, it's called Beat Eric Stone and Win $500 of My Money. So basically, the way it works is it's a trivia game. Whoever wins the trivia game gets one game against Eric Stone. If they beat him, they get $500. If they lose, they get $100. But during the trivia game, they gain advantages, such as he has to plunge a ball, he has to tell him the rules. And the whole point is to try to get younger folks to watch the game, the game show, and say, oh, wow, look, this is pinball. It's interesting. Let me look a little bit more into it. Yeah, and it's not about the world-ranked player coming to Florida and trying to beat me for $500. It's about getting new people and giving them incentives. Yeah, so the way you become a contestant is non-pinball related. There's bingo. There's other things. So that's the whole goal of it. If you do have a chance, go on to YouTube, Taz Pinball, like and subscribe. I don't make any money off of it. The whole goal is to get younger folks into pinball. Now, what I want to do is I want to give Ted a challenge before we leave. She got $7.5 million. You've got to play one game and try to beat her $7.5 million. And if you don't, you've got to give... No, I'm just kidding. And if I don't, I have to give myself $100. Now, let's see if you learned anything. Let's see if you learn anything. All right? I don't think he's going to do it. Now, you know this game, right, Ted? Now, again, see how he caught the ball? Look at that. See? So, again, it's all about controlling and catching the ball. So, if my brother has this game... Okay. Well, that's okay. We have 70 pinball machines. All right. So, you ought to be able to beat her 7.5 million easily, right? Yeah, right, yeah. Yep, I don't think he's going to do it. Now, again, when the ball was over here, he gave it a little nudge to try to knock it back, but it was just a little bit too late. He's not going to come close. He's not going to come close. You can see how confident he is in me. He's showing you a lot of... But again, you know, we have a lot of new pinball players down in the state of Florida. A lot of people, amateurs, even the younger generation. We had our tournament, the Point Monsters in Fort Myers, which at the Pinball Asylum when we held the World Championship, 11-year-olds came in second. I mean, so, yeah, and again, people like Ted and others that are promoting, especially for the younger kids, getting them started at an early age and they develop the skills. I started at four years old and all, you know, I developed skills within a few years and started to really get good at pinball at a young age. And that's what we're trying to really do. And we're trying to show people that it's not just about flipping the flippers, but it's about making shots. It's about there's a strategy. It's about controlling the ball. And each time you play, you're getting better. Each time she played, her score kept going up to 7.5 million, which is pretty good. I didn't do it. He didn't even get 10 times his score. All right, thanks. Do you guys have any questions or comments or anything like that? I have to do that offline. Time for the next 10 minutes. Oh, okay. All right, thanks, Eric. I tend to talk long. Yeah. That's why they cut my Carl Weathers. They do. So if anybody has questions, I'll just come right out here.