how to REVERSE SPLIT-S 

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I spent some time on the sim practicing this and it was amazing the moment my brain went from 'move the sticks this way' to just inherently knowing what i wanted to do and being able to automatically do it. love your tutorials Drew!

Most humble member of rotor riot!

You make the best fpv flying tutorials. Looks like u really want people to know these tricks rather than trying to show off.

I see others have mentioned the gesture-talking in this video, but what gets me is how effective you are with it. You're conscious of how your body language will be seen and you use that to maximize your ability to convey information. It's obviously more subtle in other contexts, but it's always there.

Man U have been landing some really solid vlogs and not losing your own simple and emphatic self! Easy to see and not feel intimidated by skills or persona! Keep it going!

Completely RAAAADDD!!! I was one of the dudes that asked about how you do that "reverse split S" so THANK YOU very much for the video and especially the TIME it takes to make one. Keep kicking it Drew!

Thanks for the flying tutorials. You share not only the how-to, but offer quite a few variations to fit whatever style we're looking for. Your building block instructional approach makes these easy to understand and useful for later reference as one's skills improve.

Dude.. the trick thing, in a tutorial video blog format... yeah more please! These rock!

I like the way to teach you the trick whilst also leaving in the near miss/panic moments and the odd ground hit.

Your tutorials worked! Even though I was extremely high in the air and it was on a very large propeller it has giving me the concept of how to flip the object!!!! Just posted, thank you for the Great walk-through!!!

Excellent. A tutorial done slowly and so smoothly. Thank you.

Dude you are knocking it out of the park on content. Really enjoy watching you fly because you really get the flow thing. Such a pleasure to watch.

Drew- I've studied about 5 videos from experienced well known pilots on you tube but nobody said "..you just pitch your way through it.." and now I got it. Hope the gig with Rotor Riot works out for you- I think you fit in well with that program (no matter what Steele thinks...or visa versa; both you guys are very talented you know..yeah sometimes its pretty obvious:) You add a dynamic that I think deep down those guys realize is refreshing. Anyway, thanks Drew- cool peace

Thank you for these videos. I like how you explain what's going on not just show stickcam. I for one can not watch stickcam and the trick, I can only watch one or the other so when you also describe what's supposed to happen really helps. Thank you.

this was the best trick video yet! you're getting very clear about these! thanks Drew!

Nice to watch you grow as a content provider, you are a great addition to Rotor Riot and your trick tips are always enjoyable. Keep on this path, tutorials are needed, for your stick cam, think about stick overlays from blackbox.

Best explanation of this maneuver, thanks bud!!

Drib your awesome! I Always find your videos entertaining/informative! Keep em coming...!

Tutorial is cool, keep them coming. I can now feel the controls as I watch the videos.

I love a bright day with clouds. Makes flying so much better.

Love the "new tricks" tutorials! Keep them up! Trying to incorporate them all into my flying! - Raptor FPV

I love your trick series you have going on here! Great way to pass on the knowledge, but you do it in such a simple way, that it just makes sense!! Thanks Bird!

Love these how to vids mate, keep up the great work and please make more

I rarely comment... but when i do... I comment to let Le Drib know that," You sir are doing a stellar job with your videos!" :) Thank you

Great Video Bro, you did an excellent job explaining what your doing while demonstrating it. This came at a perfect time for me as I have been working on Matty flip and reverse splits the past couple weeks and have not got them looking good on video yet so this is a huge help.

Love the trick tutorials. Thanks Drew

Thanks man, I find these vids VERY useful, keep making them brov

More trick vids! You pick, I'll watch! Great stuff!

This was a very enjoyable tutorial, well explained, well demonstrated. Kudos.

Very good tutorial! The way you explain is very simple and easy. I'm going to try this trick tomorrow. Thank you very much!

Brilliant video, your trick tutorials are extremely helpful, I do not see any top pilots sharing as much as you. GB

Really good tutorial. More like this, please.

Dude I love the stick cam with the trick tutorials. Good stuff!

oh man best video tutorial i have seen for fpv tricks!

Dude that flying at the air end...beautiful grind man.

I really like your trick series. You explain things very well. It's really hard to wrap my head around some of the moves y'all do, but you make it a bit easier to understand. Thanks.

Love the trick videos. You're good at explaining the nuance. Keep it up!

Thank you so much for explaining how to do this! I've been terrified for even trying it without knowing the basics behind the trick. Great tutorial!!!

Perfect tutorial video! A few variations of the same trick! Like I always say it's like skateboarding and seeing those different variations with an explanation for each one is awesome!

Great vlog, loved the trick stuff, t-shirts were great too! Particularly loved the flow of the flying...

Nice explanation of the trick. I liked it. Got to learn it. I would like to see more tutorials like this.

I love the passenger you caught at 4:45 or so. Keeps popping back up afterwards!

Keep these vids coming you are a great teacher !

Great tutorial Drew.

Awesome, I was actually trying to figure out this move! I love it!

Thanks for the vid Drew!

Great video Drew!

These trick tutorials are really helpful, thx.

i really like the way you explain ideas

I find this tutorial very useful since I don't know how to do tricks, and now this is really the first thing I wanna learn. Thanks Drew!

Wow another inspiring video.. Love how you make us all feel like its easy to do!!!! Thumbs up, man this was great.

I really liked the trick video. Thanks for it! And you really did explain it very well!

I've been wanting a good explanation of how to do this trick. Thank you so very much!

Great Video, good explanation and definitely something I want to learn

Thanks for this one Drew. I really like your trick tutorials. I hop you can keep doing them. I end up just doing the same stuff each time I go flying otherwise.

Most excellent!! Thankyou, the video's are so inspiring when i fly.

Dude, you are the man!!! I have been working on that for a month and didn't even think about putting yaw in the equation. That should definitely make it a lot smoother!!! Thx for the tip

You're a great teacher. Your trick explanations, and breaking them down into their component parts, and then putting them together is priceless. THANKS! How familiar are with you with fixed wing aerobatics? I've only done it in full size aircraft, and quads are so different, I'm not completely sure if fixed wing acro knowledge is that useful for quad freestyle, because the thrust mechanism is so different. I know that simple turns might be harder for a fixed wing pilot to get the hang of, because in an aircraft you do kind of bank and yank. The back pressure in the bank increases the lift of the wing while it's rolled, which makes you turn. This has very little in common with turning a quad while maintain forward speed. I mention the fixed wing aerobatics, because being familiar with some basic terminology could come in handy, at least because it may describe the path of both aircraft, even if different lift mechanisms are at work. You mentioned an immelman when I think you were in more of a half cuban 8 flight path. Here are the basic looping maneuvers for aircraft, in case they're useful to know or refer to. There are probably about a million articles on the web about these. 1.) A simple loop: In an airplane, it's a lot easier than with a quad, because in FPV quad flying, the goal is for momentum to carry you through the top of the power loop far enough to make it round and symmetric, but adding power inverted is trouble, so there is judgement involved, with camera tilt, and limited field of view complicating matters such as when to cut the throttle and coast, and when to pitch back down again inverted, and when to come in with the power and level out. In a regular aircraft it feels like cheating because the camera is your eyes, and they move, and so does your neck! Multiple gimbals kind of. LOL So you'd start a loop with a fairly high entry airspeed, and pull up sharply enough to pull a few G's, and as your nose moves up, the horizon straight ahead is no longer a reference, so you can look out to the left at your wing to maintain orientation. As you finish the first quarter, you need to ease off the G forces, and then tilt your head back and watch the horizon come into view inverted. The goal is to coast over the top, with power on, because if you don't, and keep too much of a positive G load, you'll make an egg shaped figure instead of a round loop. The back of the loop is kind of the reverse of the first half, in that you start pulling back and bringing on the G forces as your airspeed picks up, and it should be max at the bottom at the same altitude you started, and the same heading. Knowing all that is essential to what follows. 2.) An Immelman: This is simply a half loop, and at the top, with a good aerobatic aircraft, you'd actually pause at the straight and level inverted point (at which point you'll now be at -1G) and roll upright at full throttle. So it's a course reversal maneuver that started in WWI dog fighting. It's WAY easier than with a quad. With the quad you'd enter the power loop come off the throttle, and at the very top of the loop, you'd roll out with the power off and then come up on the throttle and fly away straight and level. Then I guess you'd have the quad equivalent of an Immelman. 3.) A Cuban 8: I'm nit picking here, because what you did could have been an Immelman or a half Cuban 8, depending upon where you rolled upright, and added throttle. And camera tilt is a factor that could make someone like me think you were further along in the power loop than you were. In an airplane, you enter a normal loop, but at the 5/8 point I guess, when the plane is upside down at a 45 degree angle, you pause on that 45 degree inverted down line (-1G now) then roll upright on that line (+1G), pause, and then immediately pull back to straight and level and fly away. That's a half cuban 8. For a full Cuban 8, you'd continue on into another loop, and do the same thing, and end up making a figure 8 in the sky. So in the quad, if you caught the top of the power loop, and rolled back to upright and level and added power you'd have an Immelman, like you said, but if you continued the power loop until the quad was further along (past the top, and on the back side, too early to add power and about a 45 degree inverted attitude, and THEN rolled back to straight and level and added power, you'd have done a half Cuban turn around maneuver. I thought you were past the top enough to be called a half Cuban, but not that I think about it, with camera tilt, I guess straight and level inverted is going to look like you've past the top of the maneuver because of the camera tilt, so to me it could have looked like you were on the back side of the loop, when you were really right at the top. In which case you really did do an Immelman turn around maneuver. In an aircraft, a split S has a twist that makes it different than what a quad is capable of. You roll the aircraft inverted, and then pull through into a half loop to straight and level, and recover there. By necessity, you're going to gain a lot of airspeed, and loose altitude. Split S's too low to the ground kill people. A quad is a different beast when it comes to pitch changes. That's what makes it so cool in free style in my mind. The path of the quad in a spit S can be about anything you like, because you can roll inverted, and pitch upright all in one move. Which can give rise to the moving backwards with the momentum effects you're so good at. Or you can make like a plane, and extend the path to upright. So the path of the aircraft through the air can be highly variable, while in an aircraft you're kind of stuck. In an aircraft, if you first pull up onto a 45 degree up line, pause, roll it inverted, pause, and then pull through (a split S started on a 45 degree up line basically) and finish a loop you've just done a half Reverse Cuban 8. Quads can't be inverted on a sustained negative G level inverted path like a plane. But planes can''t hover, and having the freedom to roll and flip about the roll and pitch axis, combined with the high power to weight ratio, makes quad free style extremely challenging, hypnotic to watch. And REALLY fun to do. In an airplane, if you slowed down, and tossed the stick forward, a forward flip would NOT result. And if you slowed down and added full throttle, you wouldn't shoot upward like a rocket. That stupid prop pulling you around, and getting the lift through the wings via air flowing over them, ruins the show compared to quads. LOL

Watching your videos in 2022 and they really helps! Thanks dude!

The tutorials are awesome keep them coming I don't care which tricks the craziest thing you can think of lol.

TY so much drew, very god explanation. I am one that must visualize things first and you help with that tones.

You make it look so easy. Another one to try in the simulator 👍🏻

Thanks for the great explanation!!

I love your style of flying, not sure what it is but just really like it over others. I think it's smooth flowing tricks rather than quick rolls and flips. Great video 😊

This was a fantastic tutorial. loved the trick, and loved how you explained it. More like this, please =)

Looks like an awesome set up for a matty!

fantastic tutorial

I just wanted you to know that I dig and follow your trick video's. I am gonna try to catch up, and after that i will try help you with suggestions :) keep up the good work !

dude your vlogs are awesome!

Hey LeDrib. Please keep making the trick tutorial vids bro. RR started making some but I think it's a great way to show people how it's actually done. We all love learning new stuff and most of what the "pro's" do, us average crowd don't know where to start haha. Great vid man. Keep it up 👌

Good video Drew, thanks!

Been waiting for this one... awesome.

Thank you for the info. You explain it good.

More of these type videos please. Thanks.

I just learned how to do power loops. Now I'm going to try this. Thanks for the tutorial.

Man, your videos are always so smooth, it's easy to forget you're flying a machine that sounds like a swarm of possessed bees! Excellent tutorial as always!

Whats up!!!! Thanks Drew for the shout out!!! As always keep up the amazing work! Cant wait for the next vid!!

Thank you Drew for another great video. I remember this trick from your previous vlog (your gear doesn't matter). I really liked it, but couldn't work it out.

This has to be 1 of your best vids

Thanks! awesome video!

i'm learning, thanks so much and have a great sat night :)

Dude. This video was SOOOOO Freakin' helpful. U are the man. Keep up the trick tutorials, please. U are the man. Made it so easy for me to learn. Thx bud.

Trick videos are great!

Amazing skills man. I don't think I'll ever be able to do it like that.

Thanks for the tutorial. Thumbs up.

awesome tricks I realy love it

Thank you. Original and informative. Subscribed. Cheers 🖖

Thanks Drew keen to give it a go

good job big guy first one to start off with was really nice I love it lol keep up the awesome job

Thanks for posting this, I'm now trying some new stuff that I used to think was "wonky"....Now I appreciate the move!

Watched this before I sent out for the morning and I don't have the hang of it but it was a hell of a lot of fun trying it. Except for when I had to get my quad out of the tree cause I royally screwed up. Thanks for making these and I hope you do more tutorials.

nice looking trick when done smoothly mr

So much Badassery happening in this grassy area on this day. Thanks again!!

Now I need to start practicing. :D Great Video Drew!!

great explanation. Thanks!

Fantastic tutorial - and by far one of the best tricks I ve seen so far. Wow !!! My only problem is to find the right spot nearby for that.

Solid tutorial.

Good tutorial - thanks mate

Wonderful skill!! Thank you~