 Alex what we're gonna make a video today. Yeah tips to win a drone race When I start off the day as a racing pilot first off, we're here in Croatia. We're heading to a race hosted by Orca It's a pretty awesome race. It's gonna be a bunch of European pilots But anyhow, I like to start off my day with like a fresh start I like to make sure everything's organized in the morning I go through my bag make sure all my tools are in order all my batteries are charged up My drones are tested and ready to go Setting yourself up for success making sure all of these things are in order and are working is gonna Cause you a lot less stress when you show up to the race and then also just start off relax Get a good night's rest if you're tired on race day It's gonna get worse and worse throughout the day or tension and your focus is gonna go down and yeah, that's never good Middle race and I wanted to just work on filming but they insisted I get to run my GoPro I get to get HD footage of the track and get a time one of the important things to do at a race is walk the track now They usually do an organized group walk. You're doing two things walk in the track You're obviously learning what the track is But you're also you want to think about what kind of lines you're gonna be taking where stuff is for example on some of These gates there's some wires hanging that mount the gates And it's really important to walk the track and learn where those like guide wires and stuff are Because when you're flying and you're going fast and the FPV cameras we have you're never gonna see those wires So it's really really crucial to walk the track learn where these little things are and then obviously learn the track And you'll be set up for success So when other people are flying the track whether that's like to demonstrate the track or they're just doing their practice I like to hold my controller and I'm watching in my goggles And I'm just moving my sticks kind of trying to mimic what they're doing to a certain sense that way when I go Out on the track. It's kind of like muscle memory So they just finished the first round of qualifiers. That's kind of Yeah, he was doing good For a split second. I came back and he was like Everyone this track is really tight and the obstacles are metal and glass and concrete The ones that are like not metal or just like inflatable or like super tiny, but it's a fun track like this There's some really I'm excited. I want to race right now. I don't want to wait My turn to fly is what's going on pretty early on consistency is obviously better than just going fast But we're gonna go fast. I can hear you drew. I just made a mistake Better to get it done now than in the finals. That's right. That's right. This is just the practice. Oh, this isn't even qualified Yeah, that's just warm up. Yeah, what I found was my rates were a little too high for this track So I've been increasing them recently so I can do like slaloms and stuff We're previously like 400 degrees a second. You couldn't really do that. So I'm at like 550 right now So I'm gonna bring it back down to what I'm used to which is about 450 500 degrees a second. I think it'll be a little bit better It's probably not a good recommendation to start changing your setup for your rates before race But we're trying to experiment with new technology and everything like that. So we'll change it up though And we'll do it better next time So the best part of this entire event is about to happen besides me. Hopefully winning is Drew He's been trying to beat me at something this entire vacation trip that we're on And it might actually be in drone racing. Let's see if I can do this know the track. I think I know the track I Let's rib eat me in a drone race official Most laps you can do in the two minutes is how the qualifying works in this case a good tip It's just to not crash like don't push harder than you need to because we have multiple qualifiers If you do a good first qualifier then it makes the ones after that less stressful knowing that you already have a good qualifier But if you start with like a bunch of back qualifiers Then the pressure's on because you start running out of opportunities and if you make little mistakes your quad does something weird you're out There's still so close Not happy about this but all the confidence he came in there's someone actually keeping up with him. He was like so certain Trying to challenge the champ I was a hard race. I'm not gonna lie out I didn't think he was gonna have to push me like that. Come here. Come here. Come here. We're open So I made a mistake he caught me and then I'm like, okay I'll get back in front of him, but then we got into this epic dog fight I'm like it's gonna last one lap one of us is gonna crash But no it went on for like a long time. Do you crash because you are pushing that's that's good crashing When you're pushing it's fine to crash and you already have a good qualifying time So it doesn't even matter and I am TQ now officially so it's really really important to not risk it too much Zacky and I both already had good qualifying time So if we crash it didn't matter we were still gonna be one and two You have to try and stay smooth on the sticks if they get in front of you Don't let it get to you Zacky was ahead of me by about four seconds And I made it up just because I was flying my own race You don't want to chase the person in front of you because they're gonna make a mistake when you do that And he just made a little mistake on the the gate that that person just hit Vacation This is usually the part where I stopped vlogging when I tried vlog races is like this is my focus time But I'm making it a priority. We ended up in this this race together. How are we in this? I don't know somehow I ended up qualifying which means I'm in this this elimination round right because they're putting the fastest the TQ the top qualifier with the Slowest well, it's not exactly that it's the fastest and slowest person And then it's like something between so you weren't the lowest qualifier So but you're on the bottom To the bottom you just need to finish this race, but we are about to race against each other I want like WFD. What is it called? Oh the UFC UFC? So basically you did third you weren't too far behind the other guy So you're gonna go into the loser's bracket So you need first or second in the losers back You didn't do dead last so as long as you're just you need to keep this I mean you have to make the exact decision going into the losers bracket That's a good strategy If I know someone else is fast in like a semi-final where it still doesn't quite matter I like to talk to them and see what their plan is It doesn't necessarily mean you're colluding or anything like that But like I'll ask them like are you gonna push for first or are we gonna do one and two it doesn't matter If I finish first, I'm in the final if I'm if I finish second I'm also in the final so the final is where you want to win anyway So it's like break your quad now and have to fly something else So you're just gonna chill and take second place just to get to the final Yeah, of course. It's all strategy and it's good to talk about these things before him because he knows I'll get a good start and do my thing and he'll do his thing. I think it's collusion Follow what you will that's racing for you if I don't get to take second I still have to lose this bracket and I think if I win there once or twice. I'm also in the finals So all right, so you have multiple shots Yeah Is everyone down? No, there's still one up everyone just went down made a little mistake. I just made a mistake I don't know. I just did man. I just did We go into the losers bracket. We're still good. We're not dead It happens the title of this video is winning a race with captain man. Well, this is how we would win I know that we have no video No pressure or anything Somehow I'm still I'm still in the competition. Is this a semi-final? I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna send me Wait, am I against Fan over? I'm not gonna lie. I'm a little nervous. I wish you the best of luck Hope you both make the final we got a really good group of pilots So I'm gonna have to definitely push it up the semi-final guaranteed top six. So Let's do it All right. Well, that wasn't as stressful as I thought it'd be a good start Prada Drew took six place in this one I'm sorry at the camera shaky. I'm just a little excited. That's all so I wasn't even supposed to be in this video All I wanted to do was make this video about Alex's race experience here But I figured as long as I was here and people were asking me to race I'd throw it out and ended up taking Sixth place overall. I'm happy with that. But now I'm done. I'm out had a great time Had a lot more fun than I thought I would but now I'm just gonna focus on talking to Alex about what he's gonna Do to make sure he takes home first place overall So to recap what's happened so far before going to the finals. I showed up had a rough practice run We solved the issues there did really really great and qualifying swept it took first place did what I needed to do Had some great racing with Zaki FPV and others then we went to the elimination races I played it safe didn't push beyond what I needed to took first first first then made a mistake That bumped me down a loser's bracket. We calmed down We made sure the quad was working luckily we were able to fly the same quad which is great Nice easy race. I was able to take first here. We are going to the finals. It's just a one final winner take all Gotta send it If I'm ahead of them tell me like okay, you're two seconds ahead of second if I'm behind I know like you watch you want to go back and forth. Oh man If you're not sure you don't say But like you should know you'll be able to see my quad and if I'm way ahead you tell me that you're way ahead Please remember pace yourself and build up these skills and you can win in your race just like I did at this one