Re-Learning How To Fly Fast 

Thanks Roo! Honestly this is not a normal way for me to train. But I had to try something different. And I think it worked out amazingly well! I'm super happy with the result and wanted to share that with others. I also wanted to share the story of me struggling. It's easy to just only publicly share the glory, but that's not real. I think it's helpful to show the struggles that all of us go through and what we do to try to work through them. Hopefully some others can relate and maybe it helps them work through their own struggles.

Awesome dude! I'm glad it's helpful! Good luck at the GQ tomorrow!

Just stay loose, you'll put enough pressure on your self after knocking down two laps in 21s.

@@tehllama42 yep, always happens lol. Thanks man!

Thanks dude. The mental aspect of this sport is absolutely huge. I would love the chance to learn more from you my dude. You're an inspiration in drone racing

@@JohnEFly I've been thinking of making a practice vlog similar to your format for a while. Really love these vids man keep up the good work!

@@Noical most definatly needed for sure. Lol

Hey man, thanks for the pointer. You made me go back through and watch the DVR again. Sometimes the flags are good, but you're right they are probably the area that could most consistently use improvement. I look forward to hitting the field again and focusing on keeping the flags tighter with my lines. In particular the first and last flag. Thanks my man!

Thank you good sir!

Thanks Shawn!

Thanks! I put it on the radio. Thats why you see my throttle capping out in the osd.

Thank you brother! My updates don't come as often as I would ideally like, but I plan on keeping bringing racing related content when I can. Thank you for the support!

That sounds super annoying. I don't see any way that could be something I caused, but I'll just turn off all mid-roll ads. I never used to turn them on, but RU-vid defaults them all to on now and I never touch those defaults... Sorry man! Thanks for the support

no vbat sag compensation. I used to use it, but honestly it felt like it took away too much of the punch of the battery. I could probably have gone with a higher throttle cap and turned the sag compensation back on for similar effect though...

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Hmm... They are definitely less forgiving with lower throttle caps. So in that way it's harder. But if you take them right they aren't hard. So I feel like it's good practice for flying with more power if you can take the moves in the same way.

Jay is spot on - the margin for error gets tiny, and timing it (relative location) becomes everything - the reason this training approach works is that going that fast without extra throttle to bail out, you have to be almost frame-perfect to carry momentum through (but partial abort is possible - just slow). From there, just speeding up the approach, minimum cornering speed, and powering out just lets the sequence happen faster.

scale on the TX

@@JohnEFlyExcellent. Thank you. You're a fantastic flier btw. My performance suffered greatly going from my qx7 to my jumper T16. My opinion is its not in your head

@@Ryan-ek3wx Any change is going to cause a LOT of that - subtle discomfort type stuff doesn't come out until you're pushing towards the edge of making mistakes, and that's when that all comes out... or doesn't (and you're inexplicably fast).

a lack of confidence can also come from practice when things don't go well. I suppose you could say that having skill brings confidence, and I think that's a no brainer. But also having a lack of confidence can bring down skill. Confidence was certainly not something I used to lack. I'm just trying to share my thought process and efforts to improve with others.

I got my IX12 back the day before the last GQ. I was also using the IX12 for this video. Most of the year has been on the Taranis though as the IX12 has been broken.

@@JohnEFly Absurdly, sounds like a spare IX12 is probably more useful than spare quads.

Thanks for the tip. That's actually a technique I've used for as long as I've been racing. I close my eyes and visualize every part of the track and where I make each move. I think that's a great tip, and I recommend others do it too. But this year that has not been enough so far...