Great de******ion of how to play a woodrail Gav I love watching people play mine and hardly even get a flip.  After owning my first woodrail I began to understand why the older guy bump the crap out of pin because they had to.  I play pinball like a corpse. 

   I'm looking forward to getting my captain kidd going and see how much bumping that needs considering it has no flippers

Yes, definitely agree. Gav describes so well.  Even some of the 60/70s EMs especially Gottliebs had to be bumped a lot to get decent scores ans specs. Older guys continued that style of play from woodrails. Younger guys who grew up with SS and DMD machines tend to be more reserved in style.