Seems I've been doing those flipper techniques without realizing that they were actually techniques. The first time that I ever passed the ball between the flippers, I just counted my blessings. After that I started to actually try to do it (which seemed to make it more difficult).
And in the comments of that video, someone mentioned another thing that I almost thought was a bug... letting the ball drop down the center and then having it bounce off the post and back into the playfield. I didn't think anyone else did that.
I don't have a lot of experience with real tables though, there's probably a lot of things that Timeshock can do that I don't even realize.
I did get a perfect catch once on the Dreamcast version once though! Impressive physics.