 Welcome to Road to Ride, guys, and this is How to Fly Backwards with Cricket. And, uh, how long have we been, we've probably been friends for two years, two and a half years flying? Yeah, it's coming up two years. Two years, I think so. So what do you want to learn from us? For me today. What do you want me to teach you? Backwards flying. Backwards flying. So people, everybody says all that, he just gets lucky. He's just lucky doing this. What do you think? Is it luck? It's a little bit of luck. It's a little bit of luck. This guy. This guy. We're about to show you how to blow your quad up real quick from the back side. Usually how I like to teach it is, like, we're going to go through a set of trees and we're just going to keep an eye on, like, what we're going past, alright? We're going to do this area right here. So we're coming through here. We see the trees on our left and our right. We're going to come back this way. We're going to try to stay centered. Backwards. Just carry it back. Throttle control. Try it again. We'll go back and do it again. So we come right back through the center of these again. Back on the side of this. Back this way. Don't forget, stay super centered. Y'all keep that control going back. Done. And then once you get a little more comfortable, you can just start going through, you know, just, you want to just practice sometimes around, like, something like this in the open field and just carry it backwards. Get that control where once you lock it in, it's in the right spot. You know what I mean? And then I'll just do one more over here and I'll bring it backwards, back to us. Just going to keep on coming back. Keep on coming back. Is anybody in the way? And then you can add tricks like this into it, back around, and then reverse. Oh, tree. Oh, let's see it now. Oh, okay. We knew it was coming. We knew it was coming. But you got the idea, so like the more centered that you are, and once you make that initial, y'all, you're going to have a locking point. You don't need to go super far back. You just want to be just enough so that you can still see the ground in front of you, still see the trees and see everything above you. So whenever you're coming close to a tree, the shadow is kind of in front of you. Okay. So you can tell when you're getting right ahead of it because the shadow is falling right, coming to that, like, angle point of where it's going to be, the trunk of the tree. Oh, cool. So that's one way to tell as well. You haven't flown HD yet. No, I haven't flown HD yet. Actually, I bought one like a week ago. We're about to blow this guy's mind. I don't want to mess that hair up. Not long that probably takes, guys. See this? Short buzz cut, baby. Throw cap on top. You can even put a hat on that. Oh, he's with the hair. This is the first time ever since I've met him that he's going to mess his hair up. Oh. Oh. Oh. There you go. You like side the hedgehog. Huh? All right. So the first thing I want to do is just have you go through that same line, just straight. Not doing any type of turn or anything. Just go through it straight two or three times just to get comfortable with what you're going to see coming back and still it. All right? Okay. Crazy. Oh, my God. This is nuts. I can see everything. I don't know if I can go back to Enelo. I got to get my built plane tonight. Tonight. See, I just go all the way through this and then we'll turn around and come back through the area. All right. Go ahead and make a U-turn now. Right there. Okay. You see that opening right there? Straight ahead? Yeah. Okay. So go ahead and make a turn around the light post and then go right back through the center right there. Yep. So you see how wide open it is? Yeah. See your two trees. Your main trees that you're going to have to worry about are the ones, the two right when you come into this little tunnel. And I mean, I could teach you an open field, but it's nothing like actually having objects passing you. So now let's go ahead and once we, we want to be dead center with those sets of trees right there. And then we're going to do, just do a yaw. Do a 360 yaw spin. Okay. Right through the center there. Keep going around. Oh, okay. He's going to go right to going backwards. Keep it. Okay. Oh, right. Run. Okay. Oh, he's getting crazy. All right. Okay. Let's try it one more time. I mean, he pretty much nailed that. This time, make it a smooth transition from the actual yaw spin right into it. Try to keep that throttle locked in. Not a bunch of variations in throttle. And just lean it back. Lean it back. And I start going towards the right a little bit because there's a tree up. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Let's try it one more time. But you see, if you come into it, if you come into a crooked, you're going to be crooked the whole way. Right. So the main part is to come through the center of that lined up. I mean, you pretty much got it, man. Like once you get that yaw and get it locked in. So come on through your center. Yaw it out. Lock it in. Oops. Just keep, just hold it because you'll get used to it. There you go. That's perfect. Hold that. Keep getting that nice. Okay. Bring it up a little bit. Okay. So that's the case. Just go straight through as was there. Let's step it up a little bit. Actually make the right. We're going towards the pavilion. And the tree right next to it. That's where we want to come through. All right. So now we're going to do the exact same yaw technique as soon as we get underneath the pavilion. Now go ahead and yaw now. Keep going. Keep it going. Yes. All right. That's perfect. Dude, that's perfect. All right. Now let's come. We're going to yaw earlier than what you did that time. You're going to yaw. You're going to yaw. You're right through the center. Don't forget, line yourself up nice and straight. Oh, get yourself back on track. Oh, wait. Which way are we going to? Dude, right between those trees. Yep. All right. Pick your speed up a little bit. And let's yaw right now. Oh. Oh, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Let's start over again. I'm nervous right before yaw. Don't be nervous. The worst thing you'll do is crash. And it's not even your closet. Don't worry about it. So. All right. Yaw now. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Oh. So I'm going to flip you back over. We'll try it again. But I think you got that pretty nailed down. When you come in, you want to stay higher than lower. Okay. So you don't want to be eye level or a little over eye level with the picking tables. You want to be up in the middle a little bit. So once you make that yaw spin, you're going to be coming. You're just going to bring you down some, you know? Okay. So you're not worried about your height in the yaw spin at the same time. If you start high, the yaw's going to be easy. So like I said, stay a little higher than the picking table. And we're going to yaw spin right. Right now. Keep it coming backwards. Oh. Oh. Oh. That's okay. All right. Let's do it again. You were perfectly high enough and you just sank a little bit. And then you were right there. But then you kind of got freaked out. Don't be nervous. I can tell you're nervous just from your stick movement. Oops. You're good. You're good. Now yaw it out right now. Keep it going. Keep it going backwards. Keep it going backwards. Keep it going. There you go. All right. Perfect. Once you get comfortable with being backwards and coming through something backwards, it's perfect. It's going to be easier. Yeah. Because then you can check your elevation and fix your elevation as you're going through it. Carry a little bit more speed too. All right yaw spin. Keep it going. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Keep it going. Perfect. I'm excited bro. You're excited. It feels good right? It feels real good. It makes it. I'm nervous still. I'm still nervous. You see how it's easier if you go faster? Yeah. Let's pick up some more speed. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. How are you doing man? Now you can just start putting that into all the rest. And that's probably as difficult as you're going to get going backwards. Just right there through something like that. And that's what I was saying. By you starting up higher, you have time to drop into that locked in position. If you start low, then it's harder trying to get that locked in position. Perfect how you're doing it too. Because you're coming in right about here. Right. And as you make that yaw and you're coming this way, now you're getting pulled down. And then you have time. You have about three and a half feet to figure out where that locked in position is and then hold it. So I mean that was. And I liked how when you came through that last one, you were a little off. Right. But you corrected yourself a little bit at the end. And that'll start becoming second major. As you see both these poles coming through, now all of a sudden they don't look as even on the both sides of me. And then you can easily just cruise over a little bit, straighten yourself out. That was good man. That's damn good, bros. I was nerve-racking at first. Well, I just didn't know where I was going. If you keep going through the same object, then you get more and more comfortable. So what do you think between the common ace and the backers flying with the DJI unit? Well, what's nice is I could see everything. I mean, when we were going underneath the pavilion, I was almost could just count like all the slats going underneath. And seeing all the grain, it was just crazy. More confidence with it? More confidence. You know, when we're lining things up, I can see where I'm going. It's not like a big blob or anything. After today, I'm going to put it in. I'm going to build it tonight. It's going to be. So those are the steps. That's how I was done, people. It's not like magic. I wish it was, because I taught him in like two easy, three easy steps. But, I mean, most things, just like I said, confidence, guys. Confidence. Know what you can do. Practice as much as possible. The more confidence you have in going backwards through anything, even an open field, just makes you more comfortable and more comfortable. And make it easier for you.