Tips and Techniques for Flying Smoother 

Almost 4 years later, this video is still extremely helpful :D

Love this, no intro or anything just straight into the video!

A great tutorial to come back twice a year. And every time i can take one more hint with me. Even when watched a couple of times there is still something left to learn. Thank you!

Please do more videos and tutorials like this on how to get more smooth flight and also very nice that you showing the Stick movements on a Footage of a flight, like compare between one way of flying and the second way of flying.

the last part about the yaw transition was the answer to the biggest mystery in my fpv experience! thanks man! cant wait to try these out!

Thanks mate. The reference to straight flying versus skating is golden. That continuous movement makes it easier to perform moves. Most of my crashes have been from thinking about a move rather than reacting. Will definitely practice that. 👍🏼

The skating reference is spot on. I came to this reasoning on my own, and it was a big turning point for me in the first 2 weeks of flying.

Some of the Most useful, informative, and well explained piloting tips I've found . Keep em coming 👍🏼

Great tips Bob, you should do more of these. I don't always agree with your opinions but one thing I've never doubted is your amazing piloting skills. Thanks for taking the time to help us progress.

That last part, this is so simple and basic and yet it had such an immediate effect on the way I fly Thanks!

You're advice has been really helpful. I have been struggling with these exact issues. Been flying fixed-wing with done this for many years .Now I'm trying pinching and just about every one of your tips. Thanks for the info and time.

I've just informed my dentist I'm moving over to your practice, healthy teeth and good quadcopter advice....perfect 😁

Wow, this actually made it a lot easier to fly. Improved my lap time from 50:26 to 34:58

I know this is an old video but I watched it last week and it's already improved the fluidity of my flying. Big thanks!

You're the first amongst many I watched that explains sophisticated art of flying the way it should be done. I am beginner but whatever You suggested clicked straight away. Kudos for that. Thanks.

This video is honestly one of the best freestyle tutorials ive seen. I've been flying for a few months and can split-s, power loop, and hit gaps etc., but I have never had that "flow" feel. Thank you so much for this. I have not heard or seen any of these tips explained this way and I can't wait to fly tomorrow and incorporate everything!!!!

I took all of this into consideration while flying earlier and it helped out soo much. still working on the turning transition but its getting there. it helped so much it made me excited to edit it and upload for the first time in about a month. Thanks for all of the great tips and always reminding me to floss :) my dentist is much happier

Don't forget to loosen up your springs. It might be a big transition for people coming from the stiff factory setting but you will get used to it quickly and you won't feel those notches when you transition the sticks.

Thank you! Exactly what I have been looking for! I really want to learn fly smoother and these are exactly the kind of tips I were looking for!

very cool tips, still being appreciated almost 4 years down the road. Thanks!!!

Oh my gosh!!!! Finally someone taught how to skate!!! Was looking for videos about this forever! Thankyou!

Straight to the good stuff!! Man this spot is so cool!!! The trees look so crazy!!

This was so helpful, seeing side by side comparisons. Great video bud, subscribed!

Years later this is still one of your most valuable videos :)

Straight to the point, no useless intro. Thanks.

After watching this I decided to take your words of wisdom to my fpv sim for evaluation and honestly I use to have almost no flow in my acro movements, spending to much time over correcting, and just 5 mins into practicing your tips and now that's already changed! Thanks man, I'll have to send some floss your way ;)

I can not thank you enough dude for how much this has helped my flying (well the videos anyway, i always like just ripping around!) Great video :)

5 years later. Wow. I have been on sim for a while, have first quads coming....who knows when, but this is saved. Thank you!

Thanks for those tips. I feel I can get out of the rut I've been in. Felling like I'm not improving. Going to try all your tips. Keep up the great work.

Good tips and well explained. I'm not a pro flier because I build a quad nearly every day so I don't get to practice on the same quad all the time. So your intro hit me and this is why I am replying. Everything else is also bang on thumbs up man :-)

Sorry I am late comer to this thread. Love your vlog sytle. I found this video very useful. I practice quite often and can see my self going through the stages you discribe. Good for reenforcing good habits. Thanks Dude!

I've just found your channel and I'm already in love! THaaaaaanks man! hope to watch all your vids as soon as I can! (sorry, this is my company channel).. Greeting from Brazil

Loved this! Great tips. Definitely going to incorporate this into my next practice session. Thanks for making this video!

Funny you made a video about this. Last time i flew was just doing the things you are saying now and i felt i was flying alot smoother. Keep up the amazing vids dude.

Thanks really enjoyed it. I’m just learning Acro on simulator and I have found myself cross coordinating in turns like you show seems more smooth and brings the nose around after the turn. Take care

Good video, my smoothest flight came from flying in a tightish area with trees I was constantly rolling around and through. I couldn't understand why as it was technically the hardest I'd done, but now I see it's because I was constantly rolling to go around one after the other and had no time to recover the centre stick. Cheers, I like these vids.

Very well done! This is the best flight tutorial I've watched yet!

Wow man that is a huge difference and looks very clean im just learning to fly quads ive been flying planes for years but wanted a change and you are so rite you fly just like a plane.its awsome bro.thanks for the tips.

Cool tips! The relax part is key. Alot of my friends who just started flying comment on my ability to not freak out. Not that I'm a great pilot by any stretch but relaxing and thinking ahead of the quad help me a great bit.

This video is EXCELLENT. Really, it's pedagogical, very well explained and the dos and don'ts are easily confirmed in each next piloting video feed. That's pretty rare. I recommend

This is a great video. You offered a much different perspective than I have seen previously.

Thanks for the info Bob, adding it to my list of practices!

nice video, I dig it man👍 helpful tips, and I enjoy your humbleness, the world needs more of it:) keep on rippin!!

Thank you. As I'm sitting here having just finished a "Can you analyze FLOW" video, you do it. Appreciated.

LOVE THIS THANKS FOR SHARING. LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW YEAR TO FLY

very helpful bro, straight to the point too, and split vid examples made it very easy to follow you; good job!!

The yaw first for turning... New info! I have been using the opposite direction yaw/roll for horizon level rolls only. Now I have something to practice for a few hours 😁🤘🏽🙏🏽. Thanks for the vids, Kabab!

Excellent advice, I am looking for tips to help Smooth Out my flying, these tips make very good sense to me. Thx for that!

Very useful basic tips for a smooth ride. Thanks

Thanks for the very good notes about the sticks holding.

Oh my, i have been doing it all wrong for a long time. Thanks for this video. It really made a big difference on my flight. Subbed....

Love this!! I see your hands a lot in your videos!! :) thank you!! I wanna go practice now!

Wow probably the best easy to understand information i have seen. Thanks so much brother.

Thank you for the tips at 8:40! That is very cool! I love the transition going from left to right or vice versa :)

Realize this is a year old, but the cross cooordianted stick input is one of the most mysterious and useful stick inputs to a quad! In the case of transitioning from a skate left to right and vice versa, I call it hunting, I perfer the sharp edge look that a direct simultaneous roll and yaw stick input gives over the method described!

Feel inspired. Been practicing acro as of last week. Needed this video, thanks

Thank you! Wish I would have watched this an hr ago b4 I crashed my cinewhoop 😂thanks for the valuable info mate! Subbed

Dude, I love the place you got to fly in! Where I`m at is all just desert and rocks! You fly amazing! Someday I`ll get there!

Yep that's very good advice. I wish I knew that before I bought too many different quads that I can't fly with precise control. 👍😎❗

Thanks for that - really to the point and no fluff :-) Have too many quads... Will focus flying one until my flying sucks less :-)

I love these type of teaching videos!

Love this video I’ve watched it about 24times lol thanks a lot you’ve helped me big time👊🏾👊🏾 With my lil moby 6 hd ^^^ big yourself up I’d love if you did more of these

Really nice video, thank you for sharing. Those tips seem to make a lot of sense!

Now I learned how to skate. Thanks. More videos of this kind please 👍

Excellent video! Lots of good tips.

Oh NO!! All this time has passed, and nobody EVER gave me a heads up about flossing between battery changes! I recon most dentists try to fool you by pretending to give you all the info about caring for your teeth, but I'm slowly learning they are a clandestine group in some ways. It all makes sense now! Repeat visits are their bread and butter. Thanks, Kabab! You are a man among weasels! :-)

Really helpful! Great video, loved the comparisons! 😁

I died after you said “ don’t forget to floss , floss between batteries ITS GOOD “

Just ONE issue, time. I noticed a lot of pros are single, no family. Awesome video as usual

Thank you Brother. In my turn I normally press Yaw and side movements in sequence. Now I am trying to head your advice to do Yaw first and follow within second to side move and it looks smooth in the video.

Thanks for that interesting Notions definitely will try that out when I fly

Great Video very helpful, I noticed something in your comparison section that you did not mention, which adds to your smoothness. You were keeping your throttle basically constant on your smooth flight(right side of screen) and were jerking the throttle on the not so smooth demonstration. I have found that smooth throttle transitions help keep video smooth as well and along the same line as, never return stick to center, I never pull throttle to 0, even while power looping or diviing, this helps transition hard pull outs without oscillations.

Appreciate the advise kabob. 👍👍👍

I cracked a laugh at the last advise :) Great video, again. Good pedagogic approach. Nothing new for me, yet I can appreciate how you present those advise and how it will help many. Subscribing now.

Bruh! That thing about flying it like a plane is really interesting... never really payed attention to it but seeing both videos I definitely fly like the left video and the people i look up to in freestyle are very much like the right video! I´ll give that "yaw more" thing a hard look and try to incorporate it into my freestyle flying. Subscribed! Cheers from Argentina!

Amen. Buying a new guitar every other week isn't going to make you better player.

And this is why I'm subscribed people!!! great video thanks

Thanks! It was so so helpful for me. I hope, in the future I will see more of videos from you like this! :) (Sorry for my English.. :) )

Can u do more of these videos. This was really helpful. Thank u

It's my second day with a simulator and some of the things said in this video I got them on my own by just trial and error, I'm still far from having full trajectory control but there are some things I noticed that I have to work on and focus on and they're not easy to learn: 1) gravity is SLOW; messing up with the throttle will really piss you off, you're doing a turn and compensating for the higher pitch because you're learning to tighten the curve and then be right off to skating again, and there you go not lowering the throttle soon enough and shooting up in the air as soon as you adjust your pitch, and it'll feel like forever when you're falling, you can take the chance and practice diving, but it still it feels awful when you're trying to fly level to the ground and you mess up; 2) losing control during turns; you might want to gradually tighten the turn but you either yaw too little or too much, from what I understand yaw never changes the direction of your movement, it just change the way you're pointing and thus your point of reference for the turn, so I turn with roll and pich(like with a plane) and correct with you, point is when you tighten a curve if you yaw too little you roll into the curve and you start moving somewhere you're not looking and have to balance that, or when you yaw too much you roll out of the curve, and that's even worse; 3)sometimes you just can't get the trajectory you want; small corrections are really hard to make, yeah you can get spin around a pole like you want, or pass through a gate, but I'm always risking collision and never doing it fully convinced, I don't crash as much as I think I'm going to but in order to focus on my trajectory I have to turn off my "DON'T CRASH" flying mode in my head, if that makes sense, and it just feels awful to have to feel like you're flying risky when you're making corrections to pass through a gate, and again relating to the first point, falling is so slow, if you punch the throttle too much you can forget about passing through, you'll just pass over it; 4)stop and reverse is really hard; there's this point in the track I'm practicing where I have to pass through a high gate and then fall and turn back and pass under it, whenever I try to reverse I found myself going in the wrong direction and it's pretty much impossible to correct since the second point to pass through is so close, out of the little four hours I got, I managed to try it about 50 times and only got it right 2 out of luck. ***)DON'T USE CAMERA ANGLE COMPENSATION, I don't even know if you could program it into your flight controller but even if you could you shouldn't, I tried it once, it made things "easier" but I feel more in control without it, for the simple reason that if I yaw I don't change direction, at first it might feel practical to do trajectory correction with pure yaw but doing turns feels just wrong.

This explains so much...or at least part of why, my flying sucks so much. Thanks. We'll see if it helps.

That helped me a lot! Thank you!

Im new tovthe hobby and this video helped me get my rolls more locked in this is like the 5th time i wached it grest video!!

I’m not sure if you know this but, In HAM radio the older experienced guys who take you under their wing and teach you from their real life experience are called Elmers. You my friend are a quad Elmer. Thanks for your advice

Great video! You push me to the next level :)

Some good tips bud, thanks. Just started on simulator and jsss.

Thanks for that last tip! Very good! :)

I think the first one is solid advise. I am progressing through quads as I am learning fpv. I notice its hard to jump from quad to quad. As well as from a 3s to a 4s, back and forth etc. I was telling myself a few days ago I need to stick with one quad and battery type and master that.

Love your videos. Love that you take time to read each comment.

just about to head out now rain stopped... gonna try n see... ty for video... and it would be scary to see how good you would be with the time

Nice video bro,need some of those tutorials from you guys

Great video. Very useful. Subscribed.

Good video sir, interesting it seemed to work for me I noticed better control oddly. (skating) thanks !

Thank you so much I been trying to figure it out..

Thanks for the vid. about to take my build out the first time on acro.

A great tutorial. Thank you.

we overseas are pretty much bound to aliexpress and bangood because of their reasonable shipping prices. Can you please make a video on the quad you would make if you had only these two sites available.

thank you very much and have a great weekend ❤️👍🙏🍺🍺

Great tips, thank you.

Nice one. Gonna practice this. Thanks😁👍