 What's up guys? Welcome to Rotorite. I'm Alex Vanover. I'm Joshua Bardwell. And I'm Lijerib. And today we are doing the FPV Trictionary 2020 edition. We're gonna be going over all basically the tricks that are out there from the simple ones all the way to the most advanced ones. What we primarily do here on Rotorite is FPV Freestyle where we are doing tricks. And this is a challenge that has been solved in other disciplines like skateboarding, figure skating, BMX. You got a thing and it's moving through space. And we have to just come up with names and there's an infinite way to make it move through space. So there's always going to be some controversy. Let's get this out of the way. These are our takes on it. If you know a trick by a different name, argue about it in the comments because it's good for our engagement. Or don't. So the first section of tricks we'll call these the basics. The roll and the barrel roll. You know, I would call a roll where you just flip the quad along the roll axis. And a barrel roll where you're using power to actually spiral a helix. And the next would be a flip slash loop. Typically we do a power loop or a loop is where we're going how like let's say behind an object below an object. And we go back over top the object like this. We're usually if we're doing a flip it's either an open space or we're trying to do a flip between two gaps. Roll and pitch. So now the yaw. I don't think you really have that same thing. With pitch and roll. With a yaw spin if you spin fast you just spin in place and keep going. And if you spin slow it's called a turn. Essentially that's how you can use all three axes. Technically that's it. Those are the only three tricks in a sense. Everything else from then on is a combination of those or partial combinations. So there's a certain number that have become iconic that do have names. And that's what we are going to go through the most common ones. I think that there are tricks that you can do like in open space. And tricks that require like an object to work off of. You have to interact with the environment. Let's start with tricks that you do in empty space. For example a Rubik's Cube. A Rubik's Cube is I think most people would agree that it is a half flip forward. And then a 360 roll and a half flip forward to come out. Some people would put those together in a different order but basically that's a Rubik's Cube. It's a half flip, a full roll and then a half flip whether it's backwards or forwards. I'd say another very famous combination trick, the inverted yaw spin. I think this one's a little more self-explanatory. You know what's interesting about this to me is that that is actually one of the hardest moves to master. Vic FPV is one of the best at it. So good at it. But it's actually a really simple move to describe. Just turn over and yaw spin and turn back over. I think that goes for a lot of the tricks that we're going to be talking about later because there is a lot of style to it. It sounds easy on paper but the way you do it is actually very difficult sometimes. One of the tricks that I love personally that we haven't talked about yet is the Juicy Flick. Now what is a Juicy Flick barbell? Well it's interesting because I thought I knew what a Juicy Flick was but then Willie did a tutorial about Juicy Flicks. Well we are deciding today. We are deciding today. When you are going forward and you really aggressively flip upside down you want to have some look back where you're moving that way and then zoom roll out of it. This is getting to the type of trick where it's now getting into the nuance of the way that you're doing it. So you want to be very fast on the pitch axis, slower on the roll. That's the Juicy Flick. Hold it and then kind of yaw. The whole point of the trick is when you go inverted you won't have enough momentum that you're still carrying forward in the direction of flight and then roll out where you're still going. You're still coasting. So one of the moves you referenced is a stall. And there's various ways you can do a stall but what makes a stall is that you're going to freeze the quad and let it drop. I first saw Johnny FPV do him really well. He'll be under tree canopy and he'll go up, kiss the tree canopy and then just fall and it's so hard to control. It seems so simple but it's so hard to kill your momentum perfectly. And also without drifting backwards like this. And I've also seen Skitso do it where he'll go knife edge and drop perfectly down. And I would call that a stall or a knife edge stall. This is one of my favorite moves because I like any move where you end up going backwards. I call it like a throwback. I don't know if there's another name people have for it but in my head that's what I call it. You're flying forward, you pitch back, you throttle up and you get going backward then you kind of go whoop. Oh yes, I love that trick. And it's even more fun if there's like a tree canopy so you're looking up at the tree canopy and then you're going out of it. So for tricks where you are combining the different axes together I think that those are kind of the most common ones as far as what can be done in the open air again. Well a lot of these just don't really have a set name. Take it as a challenge. If you think that there's a particular combination of moves make it popular and the name will stick. Actually you've been trying to get something to stick. That's the Vanny Roll. It is the Vanny Roll. Do you want to cover this in the trick theory? Of course I want to cover this trick theory. So one more in the section. What's the Vanny Roll? Well the Vanny Roll is kind of one of those moves. I like to do it through an object but I think I also do it mostly in open space. The Vanny Roll is essentially where you need to get the quad going with a lot of backwards momentum. So you sling the quad so it's going backwards like this and then you do a roll and the goal of the roll is to try and do it as low to the ground as possible and by the time you exit that roll you are just like skimming the ground and you're still traveling backwards and then you fly out of it in whatever way shape or form. A lot of these tricks come down to the style that you do it so anyone can argue that they can just turn a quad backwards and do a roll. It's about carrying momentum as you're flying the quad backwards and then doing the roll and putting a little bit of personal style of flavor on it. It's going in the trick-tionary. It's going in the trick-tionary. Going down below how much you still hate it guys. So this next section, these are tricks where you really have to interact with the environment and I think this is the most fun part of FPV. That's what makes FPV so special. It's like skateboarding. You're going to spots and trying to interact with different obstacles and one of the first things that you'll start doing is hitting gaps. Trying to fly through stuff. Just fly through a gap in an object. Can't do that without an object. And a lot of the tricks that we've mentioned it's fun to try and do them through a gap. So as you go through the gap you want to do a roll or you want to do a Rubik's Cube if you're really going for it. Some gaps are going to be really narrow. Finding different ways to go through the gaps like you said but a particular way that stands out is the knife edge gap. You're just knife edge stalling through a gap. The best ones are the ones where the quad is I mean it's always cool but the best ones are the ones where the quads would not fit unless you turn it sideways. Because that really ups the degree of difficulty. I got this one in Puerto Rico I was really proud of. It was like just... So this next trick is a power loop because to call it a power loop they're going to expect you to go under something loop around it and back under a thing. So one of the tricks that we haven't talked about is kind of a mixture of that yaw and roll axis is an orbit. An orbit is essentially where you have an object it's a tree or a pole and you're just orbiting flying around that object in 360 degrees. I think it's kind of a more simple maneuver I think most pilots can pick this one up pretty quickly but it's something that looks really cool if you're orbiting an object that is really cool. The key is that you're facing into the object and holding the object in basically the same place on your screen while you circle around it. I think one of the most famous people to do orbits has to be Mr. Steele. I mean we got to give credit to him. I mean in all of his videos he's just kind of the king of orbits he's just orbiting around objects he's really good at keeping his distance between the object the same as he goes around it. He definitely made that trick iconic. Next trick, Split S. This is one of the most basic tricks and it's probably the first freestyle trick that a lot of pilots learn and Split S can be done in open space it's a basic aerobatic maneuver for changing direction whereas you fly forward you roll 180 and then you pitch back to come out going the opposite direction that you came in but usually when freestyle pilots do a Split S they'll be going over an object like a tree the best Split S in my opinion is when you turn upside down before you approach the object you let your momentum carry you over it while you're looking down at it and then you come back around underneath it the other direction. Yeah you want to like really be kissing the trees. Yeah. Skidso was the first person I think many people saw to be doing like anti-gravity it was the title of the video he was just going over the trees and I mean that was the first time I ever saw a quad just like skimming the trees. Skidso's Split S is what made me want to like commit to have PV freestyle I was messing around with all sorts of RC stuff I thought the fpv quads were fine but I wasn't really hooked on them until I saw Skidso doing that stuff oh that's what I want that's awesome. Now the other variant of the Split S which is again from aerobatics it's very popular but we don't do it as much in freestyle is the emelman and in the emelman you're going to climb and pitch back and then roll out. My favorite way to do an emelman is when you've got multiple floors of something like a parking lot or a bandeau and I like to just shoot out one window it's so hard. Power loop up and if you can timer set as you're about to power loop into the other window that's when you do the roll that's my favorite way. If you've ever tried to do a power loop over a tree and halfway into it you realize you haven't got it and you've got oh s*** it bailed out you just need an emelman you just learn something. So the Maddie Flip this is where things are starting to get pretty advanced. I remember I had fantasized about this trick and I had just convinced myself it couldn't be done. It couldn't be done or something I mean how cool would it be What is a Maddie Flip? So Maddie Flip is where you would go over an object pitch forward keep pitching forward apply power and end up thrusting backwards under the object it's essentially the antithesis of a power loop. It's called a Maddie Flip because it was first done by Maddie Durant. Another trick that I think Maddie was definitely the first guy I saw do it it came from his ultra ultra high up tilt style is what he called the Cyclone other people I did you know there's I learned this trick and I called it a Trippie Spin I just thought that was an appropriate name I was just banging out logs and I was like this is a Trippie Spin I mentioned in my video that it was him that inspired me to do I just did another trick name I didn't really know there was a name I was like this is a Trippie Spin it's almost impossible the first time you see it to understand what the quad is doing it's a trick that I had to use the simulator just to figure out what am I supposed to do with my thumbs here so we've kind of talked about tricks and everything but let's talk more about ones you need objects for dives I want to talk about dives without an object to dive I mean you could kind of dive from going up towards the ground I guess but the best way to do a dive is to like dive through something whether that's like a gravity gate or whether that's five stories of concrete and Croatia or to do a dive or along a wall or something I mean I think dives are relatively easy in terms of what you're doing on the controls but they can be really really difficult and challenging if you think about it it's just a nose down stall but when your quad's straight down like this your propellers when you're at idle are still pulling you forward so if you're going through a really tight object for a long distance the quad's going to start doing this so you have to end up rolling it to keep it inside the dive for long dives you'll often see doing a dive that's what I did with my Croatian dive one of the most fun things you can do dive gaps are the most fun there's another move that's like a dive like a building dive which is the backwards wall ride let's start with the forwards wall riding again you're playing with the wall but rather than diving down it like it's very I love this trick because it's very it's very skateboardy yeah something that I got a half pipe right and then then there's variants on it you could do the reverse wall ride the reverse wall Johnny F.P.V. we got to show the famous half Johnny F.P.V. wall ride clip there have been many reverse wall rides but none quite so amazing is the one that Johnny did run along that glass building it was so beautiful just rocketed right off the edge can we point out that that was in 2018 too two years ago now at the time for like the quads and stuff that we're flying that's a really hard trick to do so backwards dive I think we got a hand this one to Cricket so a lot of the tricks that we've been talking about you could do backwards and it essentially doubles the doubles the list but you notice we're not mentioning all of these because there are only certain ones that I think have really become really like notable backwards dive backwards dive he'll line up the gap and he'll come and he'll down through it do an art he can go through two, three gaps don't hold it going down a wall of gap this is another one where when he first did it I was like that's luck and then he just kept doing it and I was like oh that's skill alright so the final category that we're going to go into here contact where you're intentionally contacting the object and the bonk is the one that many of us have done by accident my favorite form of the bonk to do on purpose is where you're underneath a roof and you power loop up and you go with your as if you kind of landed ceiling bonks are cool ceiling bonks are cool and you can usually get away with saying that it was on purpose right wall bonks when you're starting to learn the wall ride you might be doing a few wall bonks a cool way to do wall bonks are like when you go a little more at it intentionally bounce off it and maybe turn that to a flip flip out of it I also want to point out if you're trying to learn power loops under a ceiling and you're worried about having too much power and crashing if you've noticed that's happening pitch back and turn it into a bonk because your quad will break if you go like this but if you go like this it's probably not going to break the bonk can actually save your quad grinds and slides that's your that's kind of your it's a slide to grasp I love these little skids you don't need these little skids but these little skids that I like to put under my motors they will slide really well on the ground so if you want to come in with momentum so she land on the ground and you can slide the quad what's really fun is if you can find like a narrow like a ledge and maybe slide down and that's where I really start to feel like oh yeah I'm a skateboard I'm sliding down a ledge slides are fun you can throw in a yaw spin if you don't disarm while you're sliding you can like throw in a yaw spin or flip out that's a fun trick and then when you want to get really crazy you can you can grind quads you don't see it a lot I thought that this would become more popular and I think one of the reason it hasn't is just because it's so hard and depending on your frame it can be even harder so I mean like my frame has this standoff up front that's pretty nice for setting on a rail so I mean it's really the idea of grinding your quad like a skateboard is super cool you don't see it a lot though yeah I think one of the final tricks and I think we say this best for last is perching now it sounds really simple you're just landing on something but perching is like what we call it so for example the top of a light pole I've done this a few times where I go up and you're trying to land on this tiny little object without you know falling off and just timing it just right that is one of those fun things that's kind of something you do is like a challenge it's a really fancy landing and on that note landing is the one trick that fpv pilots can't do because every time I finish a flight it's just like thank you guys so much for watching this we hope you've enjoyed it I really liked watching all those clips and all these tricks that come up over time if you think there are any tricks that we left out or got the name wrong or if you can think of a great example of a trick that you're like no no you should have done this one throw it in the comments you know we read them all and we'd love to yeah this is certainly not all inclusive because as we said there's an infinite number of ways that you can combine all the different movements that are capable with these awesome machines but I think these are the most common the most iconic tricks but if we didn't mention something go out and make that a famous trick God and make it so hot that we can't miss it in the next edition of FPV Trictionary this has been the 2020 volume hit the subscribe button and like this video check out our store so we can keep making awesome videos like this for you guys and thank you guys so much for watching and we'll see you on the next one