 Hey guys, welcome to Road or Ride. It's 100 degrees outside. It's just too, you don't have to fly, we're not gonna do it. So we're gonna watch you guys fly. That's right, this is Community Spotlight. I'm Ladriv and I'm joined by a special guest, Make-A-Reactra. I'm Make-A-Reactra. Sorry, I was like perfectly in time. Now you're a little bit more of like a racing pilot, right? Yeah, I race, but I've watched Community Spotlight a few times and the videos are incredible, but we're gonna shift this little bit and include a little bit of racing, a little bit of cinema with it being changed up. We hear you, we see the comments, we see you guys saying, you choose a lot of the same people over and over. So we brought someone fresh in, fresh set of eyes, fresh perspective, and I think we're gonna have some surprises for you here. And some fresh categories. But we gotta start off with the old reliable, good, old freestyle. So the first video we're gonna get into today is by Gunwoo. This is a young pilot from, I believe, South Korea. But wherever he is, look at this crazy spot he's flying. I love the environment. Yeah, it's like, this is like the dream grid. There's so many levels here. And with the tricks he's doing, it almost gives it a kaleidoscope effect. When he goes around. Yes, definitely, I'm almost like, which way is up, down here? I would, I think I would get lost there, but he's hitting, he's hitting like all the little gaps too. Like he got up even between the pipe and the ceiling too. I feel like I could just session here for hours on end just finding every which way to like, by power loop to flip back to whatever. Like really creative. Yeah, this guy is no joke. This video is really fun to just watch the whole thing. There'll be a link in the description to Gunwoo's channel and the channels of every pilot we're featuring here today. So next up, we're gonna move it on to SYNC. FPV SYNC has been doing some really impressive stuff lately. You've been following him much? No, I don't know. This is the first video I've seen of this. I'm excited. Oh man, look at this. So what I like, he's doing like some of that crazy Maddie stuff. And this is like taking it to kind of like that like hammer level where I feel like he's chucking his quad all the way across this parking lot. Yeah, the hang time. And then, look, so he's trying to like power loop and then do that kind of inverted split us flip back through the gap though. And I really like how, come on. Oh! Oh, he crashed, but I love how we're seeing the progression, he was showing us every attempt. Like, I feel like that's a real like skateboard thing where you watch someone that's like going for one of those really tough tricks and you just watch them like hit the handrail over and over and over just slam, slam, slam when they finally get it. It's like super gratifying. And speaking of skateboarding, I've got another video here. They're actually flying around a skate park. This is pistol mystic FPV. Did you ever skate much? No, I rollerblade, that's about it though. Did you like go to skate parks or anything? No. I mean, I think a lot of FPV pilots did come from a bit of a skateboard background. So like seeing like that last video was kind of edited like a skate video and then seeing a park shredded like this. Like, that's always really fun for me. And I like how he's like playing off the ramps. Yeah, it's almost like he's skating. Yeah, and here we got Digi FPV. He says he's flying FPV proxy juice. It's pretty juicy. It's just a little juicy, definitely. I'm waiting to see some proximity though. He's definitely got the juice thing down like that. That flip back and forth. Yeah, it's cool to see this kind of, I think more people are calling this a bang now. Ooh, a little melody work in there. It's cool to see it done around more stuff. But I mean, I think that's the difficult part. You're gonna flip this way that way and then boom into a tree. Lose control. Or don't know what you're gonna be running into because you can't see. Yeah, y'all is like flying backwards. I like how it's a mix of speed though. You see like some slow and then you have it fast. Yeah, it's definitely like a time warp. It's like bang, bang, bang, then up when he was doing that hang right over and you saw the cars going. And it was like kind of like this, whoosh. This guy, that was really on beat. Yeah, I've noticed it does kind of line up with the rhythm of the music. Yeah, did it well, edited it well. I probably both. A little bit of editing, a little bit of flying. I mean, this guy goes by long. I've heard this pilot. Low and G, how do you know? I've never seen this guy before. I've seen his stuff before, I'm pretty sure. So what I love is that he starts this clip with the third person clip. So this clip is captioned backwards knife edge wall grind. And look, you can see the third person is doing it. And then I think we get the drone's perspective boom. That was a forward wall ride. Where's the backwards? Wow. Oh, but I like seeing the whole line. So it wasn't just that one clip, like took it into a flow then. I like this music. Do you? I nearly stored my magnetic. Is it duty in? What do we got? Is that another quad? Yeah. That was a really cool line. Starting off with a banger trick, going to some flow around the grid, got like a quick chase in there. This is a nice line. Next category. Moving on to the next category. What do we got? Our next category is cinna-whooping because I love to cinna-whoop and it's all about location, location, location on this category. The next step is aerial photography, Ireland. What's he filming? And this is actually Connor McGregor's pub. Like the fighter? Yeah. He owns a pub? Yeah. So I thought it was really unique. Is that why he's always getting in fights? Drink it too much? This is a second. Yeah, it's all one take. Is it? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's all one take. That was really cool with the fire though. Yeah. You see so many of these really impressive one takes lately. You almost forget to remember just how cool it is and how difficult it is to do that. But you know- I think a lot of them write storyboards for it. Yeah, I mean, and that's I think what it takes to take it to that next level. You know, coming up with something unique like having that fire, having that guy tossing the pizza. You know, this isn't just a fly through. Like you've got a lot of choreography here. Choreography? Choreography. Chore- Tomato, tomato. What? Give me the beer. So I don't know. Maybe more people went and visited his pub after this video. I hope we got him some traffic. Who we got next? Well, it's FPV at the International Space Station. What? Not really. FPV the Museum. What? That's pretty sweet, huh? To get permission to do this. Where is this? It's made of FPV. He's really big. Oh, I'm so jealous. This is so cool. He's getting to fly around to Space Center. It's great editing with the transitions, fast and slow so you don't have to watch the boring stuff too. Oh, this is so awesome. Oh my gosh. Is there an astronaut sitting in there? I didn't see that. You didn't see that? Look at that. You see Pop Gordon. That is such an amazing touch. I really like the speed ramping they're doing here. A lot of the one-take speed ramps I see, I don't, I don't know. It doesn't usually work for me. This is like perfect. Maybe it's sort of like a space shuttle, like the movement. I think maybe it has to do with the subject matter. I think also the song helps, but I also think just the timing. I think these were really well-timed speed ramps. It didn't ever feel like, I feel like sometimes when you see those speed ramps, like I know you're just trying to skip past the boring stuff. But this I didn't feel that way. This I felt like you're just like, mm, mm, like kind of as grooving. Got Go-Karts and Bowling Alley's by Alph D FPV. Yeah, we just raced, Tiny Woop Race at a Go-Kart place and I really wanted to chase the car so I had to pick this one because I couldn't do it. So I'm living vicariously through and he's starting all the way at the entrance. So do they actually coordinate with people on the track with a flight starting all the way outside the building? That's your question. That is some impressive foresought. And the sound effects. I like the sound effects. Ooh, that is, whoa! Oh, that was close. Oh, that was, what was it? I don't know. I don't know. That seemed like, that seemed really close. That's cool, cut the corner. That's cool. That one, that one bit made it for me that all of a sudden you just saw the car like come into frame. That was either some amazing planning or you, you got lucky. This one I just thought was really unique. It's Airsoft. Okay. So Will Ho is doing Cine Whipping around an Airsoft match. Yeah. Did he ever shoot the drum? I don't play Airsoft but my husband does and he's been wanting me to play for so long but I just don't want to be shot at. Yeah, it doesn't sound funny. I would do this. Yeah, maybe you could do this. You could, then you guys could still spend time together but you don't have to get shot but your drum might get shot. That is true but I will take the chance. All right, what's next? We got some more whoops. Well, we have another whoop category. This time, tiny whoops. And we have some racing. There's like a micro. Yeah, the one-ass, typically two-ass drums with the ducks, the small one. Super fun and super great way to get an FPV because they're just so like, I don't know, low consequence, you know? Yeah, you can. The worst case is maybe getting it stuck into someone's hair. Yeah, a video from T-Dog. He is a racer whoops in Wonderland. You'll see why very soon, I'm sure. This is an amazing course. Yeah. I think that's something that's really like a big part of the tiny whoop community is building these insane lit up just magical race courses. They just create such amazing visuals like. Yeah, those are the wee bleed gates. We've flown with him a few times. He makes his own gates. And then we flew weekly tiny whoop races and we would set up and build our own gates and full LEDs. Yeah. I feel like that's basically half the hobby for them is like coming up with creative ways to, I mean, those spiral gates, that's next level. This is really cooking, man. No, he's fast. Wow. He's one of the faster pilots in tiny whoops, I can't say. This is a one-ass, this quad is like a four-volt quad just shredding. So that last one is some racing. Looks like you brought me some freestyle after all. You're jumping me some whoop style. I felt guilty with so many racing videos that I found you a freestyle tiny whoop video. This is SRK. I do think that freestyle with the micro whoops is really difficult. A lot of the freestyle maneuvers that we do like the split S's and things like that, they struggle with not getting in these wobbly oscillations. So when you see someone do it, you guys, if you're not as familiar, if you're not as familiar with tiny whoops, you might not realize just how much skill it takes to do some clean, flowy freestyle with these little baby drones. Right now, they're having an in-game of whoops. I don't know if you've heard of that. No. It's really a freestyle whoop competition. So they have weekly challenges. There's so many pilots in it right now. I couldn't give you the number though, just a lot. And they have their challenge and they have to submit it and they can move on to them next week and next week. And finally, they'll be a champion of in-game of whoop. This tiny whoop video is by AK, who is... It's not just AK, it's AK. I know, right? He is one of the best whoopers in the country. He's cooking. And he takes such a small place and fits so many gates in there. Yeah, you're right. This is just one room, isn't it? I didn't even kind of realize it first because he's cooking with so much speed and going through so many gates, but they just packed them all in there. So, look, you can do that at your house. You can make some gates yourself or find some natural gates. Get yourself some tiny whoop gates. Yeah, I mean, it starts to get pretty crazy when you light them up and all that stuff, but some of these more basic gates are really inexpensive, so you can have a lot of fun in a small space and make some really intense courses. Again, this is just why it's such a great way for people getting into it because if you don't feel like you don't have great spots around or you may be nervous to go out and fly a bigger, expensive quad at a spot, you can take this little drone that's much less expensive and just set it up in your own place and just shred. And I live in Maine and we have a really long winter, so we spend a lot of time tiny whooping. The whoop season is real, right? Yeah, we're about getting into the whoop season here with it being 100 degrees. I think it's getting so hot we're staying inside to fly whoops. All right, my favorite category, women who drone. This is Nerd Bird FPV who was in a female freestyle competition not too long ago and she placed in it. She podiumed. Okay. Oh, here we go. Yeah. Oh! So you have to watch a lot of her video because you'll see some mind-bending tricks where you're like, what did she just do? That was sweet. With between the legs. Yeah, like between it and then to turn it into a trippy spin. Yeah, that was pretty sick. Leo on fire is a racer. She's actually in drone champions league with me. She's on X-blades. But I saw this video she put out chasing this plane and I've done this a few times or twice and I loved it. It's pretty difficult though, right? Yeah, she gets really close and she holds it for so long. It looks like a nice plane too. I like chasing the little foamy planes like the foamy wings because if I hit it I don't feel too bad. I'm like, yeah, it's only a foamy wing. I'm not gonna damage it this looks like a plane you might not wanna hit. No. Air to air is always really fun. These air to air shots are one of the first things that like really drew me to FPV like back in the day seeing flight test stuff. Oh, we got the smoke. We got the smoke. All right, this is Steph FPV. She's a racer as well. Okay. But she's chasing bikes. And she's also a drone champions league pilot. She flies on team Raiden's. Nice. Oh, she's your competition. It's hard to find female freestyle pilots. Is it? Yeah, that posts a lot consistently. I mean, I think that's probably why I haven't seen more women pilots is I pay so much more attention to freestyle than the racing side of things. I think I missed out on some good pilots which I'm really glad that you're here. And she won me some of these pilots because yeah, there's some real talent here. And I mean, she may have come up in the racing scene but I think she's really good at this chasing stuff here and could definitely continue to play with more of the cinematic sort of thing. Hey there, Blue Owl. Now, I know her. I know Blue Owl. She won. She is so impressive. Yeah, she won the Ripping Overies Contest, right? And you think I fly high camera tilt? Yeah, no, she flies like 65, right? 65 degrees. Yeah, she hasn't posted in a while and I really missed her videos. So Blue Owl, if you're out there, we'd love to see some new videos for you. I know it's hard to keep up with flying and posting but even if you're not posting, I hope you're still ripping because you are seriously talented. And I wanted to share this because I was hoping it might push her to start flying more seriously. Just another video. It's really smooth too. You know, you see like Maddie tricks you have to do with so much power to kind of catch yourself in that backwardsness that sometimes you get in that prop wash or it gets jerky because you're like getting really aggressive with the throttle, but she seems to have like a lot of authority over it that like as she's getting into that drop part of the Maddie, not being too aggressive with the throttle and being able to pull out nice and smooth, I love it. Now, I had never heard of this pilot, Trillie FPV. And I just found her. She flies a lot of bandos. This is a sweet bando. It's making me miss Detroit. And she kind of skates. Yeah, I like it. I mean, you got this like kind of hip hop music shredding up the bando. This definitely has kind of a skate vibe. This spot looks so fun. I know. Where are you at, Trillie? I want to come fly this spot. Really great video though. Our next category is another one of my favorites. It's actually probably my favorite category. Yeah, you're really into the racing stuff. It's the racing category. Like I said, I just really don't watch a lot of racing videos. So I'm glad that you grabbed me and you're like, you're going to watch some of these fast pilots. So this one's a nice segue actually, because the last category is women who drown and this is a female drone racer. Rue FPV. I've flown with Rue a few times. She is arguably the fastest female in the United States. Really? One of the fastest in the world. And she's a teammate of mine. We're both on quad force one together. Nice. I like that she's putting some subtitles over the video so that you also get a little bit of story with the race along with the times so that you're saying like, okay, you're taking the first lap conservatively and you're seeing how, oh, now that she's got the paths down, you're going to ramp it up, ramp it up, ramp it up. It's getting pretty aggressive here. And this is the global qualifier track for multi GP. So her time's going down every time 15, 14. Her time's getting logged on the leaderboard. Okay. And she has, she had the fastest female time now. She's the second fastest. She is the bare neck neck. Now have you flown this specific track? Cause it's a qualifier track. I have flown this track. Is it hard? It looks kind of hard. It's not too bad honestly. There's no dive gay. So it's really not too bad. I would say it's intermediate and level. Modern day circus. Modern day circus. So this, I would have been at, I missed this race. This is a local chapter race. And this pilot is Pino 151. This race called modern day circus was based on a circus. So you can see the track has these weird kind of curves to it almost. Look at this. Almost circus like you're going in these circles. Yeah. And I like this like funky song. Kind of vibe and out. Yeah. They had rappers at the event. Really? That's fun. Yeah. And Pino actually has been on spotlight before. Oh. He dove a cell tower once. Oh, I remember that video. New Bando playground. What's this? Is this a racing at Bando? Yes. And he clearly has a command for his drone because he is doing that over concrete. Yeah. This is stickman FPV. I love that element, the ladder. Yeah. That's one of the hardest ones, I think. And you don't always get an opportunity to practice those because it looks like it's a really difficult one to put together. So I don't think a lot of courses end up having that. Yeah, a lot of confidence to be racing at these speeds over concrete. The impressive stickman, the impressive. Freedom spec. Okay. So you picked out a freedom spec video. That's really cool. Freedom spec is really cool. That's, I don't know if I'm going to explain this right. It's where they have kind of heavier quads on three cell packs. Yeah, they're flying three cell, yeah. And I think this is what we used when we did our last racing video with Van Over. We did. It slows the racing down, makes you have to control your momentum a lot more, right? I mean, like what do you think of that? It makes the race so much tighter. He was racing against Propsical, Noycle, and Evan Turner, of course. And this is Hyper. And he ended up winning NB, Evan at his own, you know. At his own spec. At his own game. But yeah, I mean, look at how long these battles are, right? They midair. Just forces them to be closer together. I love it. It's fun to watch. It's a lot more fun to watch sometimes. And they had announcers and this was live streamed, so it was really entertaining. Okay. I mean, I think if I were going to spend more time doing racing, this is what I'd want to do, something where it like, just makes it a little more slower and makes everyone closer together. I mean, the full speed, like really aggressive racing is always impressive to watch, but it's just, it's just so much. And I just feel like you're not, you're not really going to be competitive, but this makes it so that like, have more fun doing and get into more of those battles, which I think is the best part of racing. Yeah, it kind of has a freestyle look to it. Yeah. Doesn't it? Who is? All right, this is Propsical and this is his global qualifier time. So you can kind of see. Wait, now is this the same track that we saw from the other pilot? Yes, the first pilot. Okay, is it the same location or? No, different locations. But they set up the same track. Okay, I'm sorry. We have to measure it out to spec and submit that and then we're able to run the qualifier. Okay. So that means that pilots from all over the country can compete against each other on a track, all over the world. Oh, so this is global. So that means that even though they're not together, they can still compete against each other in like a time trials format. Okay. Like guys, we're moving on to our last category and that is cinematic. Wanted to end this one on a beautiful note. So we've got Virgin FPV with his 2020 reel. You picked this one out. Virgin, yes. He won the Boston Drone Film Festival. I've met him a few times and since he won, he's been traveling and doing these epic balloon flights, jumpers. Wow. He's gotten a lot of- Parachuteers, motorcycles. Amazing opportunities here. But he's really made the most of it too. I mean, these are great shots. Those camera settings are just dialed in perfect. You got just the right amount of motion blur, that sunset coming in. It's so gorgeous. She's getting even to chase wing suitors. That's sick. Because that's like human FPV. Right? That's a, oh man. There's a lot of things that I look forward to trying in the future, but wing suits might be what I'd want. I mean, I know it's very much like FPV, but like you see these people shooting gaps. I'm like, dude, if you hit that, you don't just have to replace a motor. Like you're dead. Yeah, you can crash your drone. You can't crash. Okay, this is LFPV. I love getting to see different parts of the world through the lens of FPV. And it's just such a unique way to experience it with these dynamic angles. And I mean, I've gotten to do a lot of really exciting traveling, but I've never been to Switzerland. And I just did to feel like I get to do, get a taste of it like this and see such a beautiful place flowing so well. It's really cool. I like that transition and speed up. Yeah, perfect on the beat too. Yeah. What? I'm just going off the title here. What? Did he really? Yes, this is a volcano. You got to fly a volcano. What? How does the drone even survive the heat? He goes pretty much right over it. That's incredible. And I love the sound effects with it. Yeah, the sound engineering is great. And look at the lava. Is that actually what it sounds like? Do you really get that like, that like, that rumble? I would imagine that's what it sounds like. I really love the colors because in the smoke and the gas coming off the lava, I mean, it almost looks blue, right? And the contrast against the red glow is just really sharp. I like seeing the movement of the lava. It just doesn't look real. It doesn't look real dude, it's so sick. That's so sick. Yeah, I don't understand, it's not overheating and just dropping right in there. No, we don't know if he lost a drone doing this. Oh my gosh, this was shot with the DJI drone on a GoPro strapped to the top of it. Okay, so he did have GPS. But gosh, that drone's made out of plastic. How did it not just melt? Okay, this is, I love flying over water. So I thought this was really neat. We got Dennis Shelma's chasing a stream here. It's cool because it's like the water's flowing down hill, so it's obviously moving pretty fast. So you get that kind of like white water effect where it's breaking up. Yeah, you get the birds sound effects. Yeah, really well done with the sounds. Is that a cow? I think that was a cow. I heard that cow. So he's putting it in now. I like we're getting some more of that whooshing sound as he's going back down the hill. Yeah, getting closer. Oh, this is how I like it. It's really getting close to it. This is sick. Yeah, I love flying low to the water, so this I enjoy. Yeah, really beautiful work on this one. Is this Nathan McBride? A cinematic look of grease. More of this water stuff. You really like the water stuff, huh? Yes. What's it, the risk? It's just beautiful. Rapids, calm waters, all of it. Waterfalls. Oh gosh, that cove is so pretty. I like that reveal shot a lot where he was kind of zoomed into the water and then pulled out to reveal the boat. I love this part. Oh, this is very, it feels very like inception-y. Yeah. Oh yeah, he uses a lot of people throughout this video. I thought that was interesting. Yeah, so he got people actually positioned on the high points, it's pretty great. I'd be a little nervous standing up there like, don't hit me, don't hit me. Well, it looks like I gotta visit Greece, cause. Yeah, Greece, Ireland. Whereabouts do we watch? Switzerland. Yeah, I really like, I really like how he has the people position because I think it kind of helps with that sense of scale too, you know? Yeah, that's true. Like, I know how big a human is. I don't know exactly how big that cove is. Oh, no, no. That's nice little dive. Yes, chase it, chase it, chase it, chase it. Ooh, nice with the whoosh sound effects. Yeah, he did the, oh, back in the boat. Nice transition. I think it was my favorite one so far. This video is awesome. It beats the volcano? Um, I mean, the volcano as a location is probably just the craziest thing I've ever seen, but I think there's more variety here. Like, watching the volcano is immediately jarring, but this flying a lot of different locations, mixing in different styles with both the flip over, some of the cruises, like, it, I like this one I think cause it has a little bit more of like a freestyle feel, like especially with shooting some of these gaps, so. So guys, that is gonna do it for this edition of community spotlight. I definitely found some new pilots to follow. I hope you guys did too. There are links in the description to all of their channels, Instagrams or whatever we can find for them. And I definitely show them some love. Stop by, watch some of their videos, give them some likes. Mako, thanks for joining us today and bringing us these pilots. Really enjoyed checking them out. And if you want to see more of Mako, there'll also be a link in the description to her channel. All right guys, thank you so much for watching. I'm the Dribb. I'm Mako Reatra. This has been Community Spotlight and we will see you next time on Road to Ride.