 Hey guys, welcome to Rotorot. I'm LaDrib, and this is one of my favorite pilots, P. DevEx. He's come all the way out from Portland to fly here with us in Florida. I'm so excited to hear, man. Me too, man. I've been following this guy for a while. He does some crazy stuff. If you haven't seen him fly before, definitely check out his YouTube channel. He does just some crazy stuff. What I like most is that you don't just do a high level of tricks, and I'm talking natty flips and trippy spins, but that you also link them together in really exciting ways. I'm really influenced by skateboarding and the types of tricks that they like to do. They'll do something with a flip in, to a grind, and then they'll flip out of it. Super technical stuff. Or just like into a manual, and they're connecting all of these tricks together with other tricks. They're tying them really close together. There's not a lot of space between them. Or they're linking the trick directly into another trick. I'm really inspired by skateboarding in that aspect, and that tends to show a lot in my flying style, I think. Pretty excited where we're at here today. It's got this industrial sort of band of sort of thing. We used to be got a lot of cross members. I'm counting a lot of gaps that we can get into. And I just think there's going to be a lot that we can trick off of. I know that's something I look for in a spot, is to have things pretty close together, so that you can come out of one trick and shoot right into the next one. When it really opens up your options. Being able to combine those tricks together really opens up a whole new world of flying that you never had before. I'm so psyched that you're here. I'm really excited to see kind of what I can pick up from you. I really just kind of want to push myself to try and do a little bit more of your style, where you're taking tricks and blending them together and just like, just taking it to that next level. I think this spot is going to be a lot of fun, so let's break out the quads and get into it. I mean, I definitely think there's levels of combos, right? You've got your open air combos. A lot of Spain guys, they're doing just the craziest, most advanced versions of that. But you can start with something simple, like a power loop into an inverted yaw, or a juicy flick into a yaw spin going backwards, you know, something like that. I don't see that thing that fast. What up? I don't see that thing that fast. It's just that good. No, we got goggles, so we're like in the drone. It's like we're inside the drone. That you want to see? Yeah. Like it did a flip in it. That's neat, man. That's powerful. I see what it is now. So one of the things I look for when I'm doing combos is a transition point in a trick I'm trying to do. Try to find one trick that I'm interested in linking or starting with. So that'll give you an idea for the types of tricks that you can then transition into out of tricks. So say you did a power loop, right? The starting point for a power loop is usually at the bottom, and then you'd go into a big loop, right, and then you'd come back around. Now, any point within that loop could be a transition point into another trick. So say you want to go inverted, and then you do a little half roll out of it. That's an emulmin. But say you want to get more creative, right? You might do a power loop, and at the apex of it, you can transition into an inverted yaw and then back into that power loop. There's also, you know, tricks that are going to have a certain trajectory when you come out of them. So if you were to do a juicy flick, you know, you're going to do a half flip forward and a half of a roll out of it, and that gives you a trajectory going backwards. Say you wanted to then go into another trick that starts out backwards, say a matty flip. So you might do your juicy flick, and as you're coming backward, you transition into your matty flip, and you're spotting the object as you're coming under, and then you're going back again. And again, you've got your backwards trajectory to work with. There's things you can do between tricks as kind of like short transition tricks. So say you wanted to combine a trick with your matty flip as you're coming back under, but you want to do something where you're going forwards. You just do a little half yaw into it, or you could do a little half flip and a roll. The trajectory is now going forward into whatever trick you want to combine. These are just, you know, a couple of things I think about when I'm out trying tricks. You'll find some obstacles that are close enough to where you could combine these things. If you find that when you're doing lines at a spot, that you're doing one trick really close to a space that you do another trick, that's a great opportunity to combine those tricks. Well, you'll watch us crash a lot of this. Well, I watch him crash all the time. Yeah. Smooth as a pilot around. Wow. Favorite comp? I don't know. I mean, I just do a lot of split-ups. This is right. I just love that feeling of that hang time, you know, like just getting upside down. Yeah, I mean, since you asked, I'd say like my go-to combo trick, probably like approach from kind of the offset, I'll like cartwheel over, flip it into coming backwards through, turn it to matty flip. Oh, yeah. And then I don't know, you could like flip out of that. Exactly, yeah. You've got it. There's one that I learned real recently that I like doing a lot. I find myself doing just a simple yaw spin, just 360 around, you know, coming out of tricks a lot. A great trick from Mr. Van Over is the vanny roll. It's just a half yaw, load-of-the-ground roll out of it. And so we can just start our yaw spin and keep it going. Oh, that's cool. And then you're in a, I like calling that a super vanny. We've leveled up the vanny roll. It's a nice trick that you can do out in the open, flat ground. The only obstacle is the ground underneath you, right? And if you do it low, it looks cool to have that ground. Yeah, you're really low, man. That's something I do struggle with is keeping those, yeah, prop skin in low. I do struggle with keeping those as low as you got them there. I level it up. Yeah, let's level it up from there. Let's add an obstacle. One of my favorite combos is power loop into an inverted yaw spin. Okay. So we go up over the obstacle and as we're over the top, we get our yaw spin and we come under. That's a type of trick, right? We are combining a trick in the middle of a trick. Let's go into a more advanced combo that kind of has the same feel, right? We're going to do a half of that. That's one of my favorites. So we'll do half of that yaw at the top, right? Yeah, you can do tighter. Yes. Love it. Hey, man. Hey, we're just flying some cars around. It's a private property, though. We can't have drones being fired around here. Okay. We had a couple of people out. I don't know. Maybe they weren't from here. They were driving around. They thought it was cool. No, I think it's cool. We have one, too. You want to see? No. We just have a game for it. Over to this area here? We actually own all this property around here. Oh, man. You don't want to pack it up and maybe find somewhere else to do it. Okay. All right, guys. We just got booted from the spot. That's part of the fun of freestyle is trying to find cool spots to fly, which means, yeah. Sometimes other people have different ideas and want you to get out. So we're packing it up as quick as we can. See if we can find somewhere else to keep ripping for the day. All right. So it was a big bummer getting kicked out of that first spot. We were having a blast, but we got a tip on another spot nearby. It's looking really prime. Getting to a trippy spin. We probably won't go as many times around. We'll cut it here. Nice little spin. Back in a trippy. Up in a matty. Size it out. Good. Back into two. There we go. Oh, very nice. And we could go back over. There we go. That's fun. So we got a good combo. We got a lot of tricks in there. We count like five tricks in one combo. Yeah. It's a solid five. And then you come back out of it right back into some more nice, flowy stuff. Yeah. Go for it. Right over the water. All right. That was your fault. That was your fault. That was totally your fault. You hit the wires center mass. Center mass. Dude, if you tried to hit the middle, I don't think you could hit it as well. Damn. It was like, it's an X. You warned me. There's wires. I was like, there's no. Oh, that was. Some stuff. When James sees some of those clips, don't you see? Beautiful. I'm just saying. These guys are wild.