How I got 3x better at drone racing in 3 days // RaceGOW2 Week 1

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How I got 3x better at drone racing in 3 days // RaceGOW2 Week 1

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Joshua Bardwell

Күн бұрын

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@janvogt454 6 ай бұрын

Very much appreciate that you actually show us the slow progress from zero on. These are the laps that normally no one sees but oneself. I feel this gives a huge confidence boost to just start trying.

@jalkingforjesus 6 ай бұрын

I agree. I joined RaceGOW but was feeling a bit nervous about submitting. Knowing others struggled to learn the course makes me think I might for the next track.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

There will be pilots that do a single lap slower than Joshua does all 3 of his and there are pilots that can do nearly all 3 laps in the time he can do one so there is a huge skill range participating. That’s the fun of it!

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Wow ... I could not possibly imagine a better promotion for RaceGOW Season 2 ... Thank you Joshua! It was super entertaining to watch your progress figuring out the track and the flow and then getter better and smoother until you have a pack where you just completely forget how to even fly haha. That has happened to me many times and it is smart to know your limit for a session and take a break so you dont get too frustrated. Oh and no shame in flying angle mode! I fly angle mode myself for 65mm whoops and I think 80%+ whoop pilots would do better in live races if they flew angle instead of acro, but everyone wants to be TDOG or AyyyKayyy haha. Anyway, I often forget how difficult it is for pilots that don't race often to learn the tracks. Watching this I wish we had made Track2 a bit less complicated for the newer pilots. I hope you dont struggle with the tight slalom too much but the idea of the track is to require many more rotation direction changes to contrast with track1. Anyway great video, I am excitied to watch your progress this season!

@pottyputter05 6 ай бұрын

Ya, I'm gonna do it this year even if a tad late. I'm off to home depot in about 2 hours bc if I don't do any given thing NOW I'll forget and I really want to try this whole season out. If there's no merchandise specific to the season there definitely should be. I hope while I'm out flying outside I get interest from the kids in the area and perhaps give them a turn to.... well let's be real, a turn to crash lol but we need more interest and this kind of event with quantifiable output to set goals around is a wonderful showcase.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Let me know if you have any trouble finding connectors

@Hat_Uncle 6 ай бұрын

"This camera needs to be wider angle for this racing I think...". . . = . . . "This camera needs to be wider angle because my eyes are just so old ..".

@divingfalconfpv4602 6 ай бұрын

Omg same. My eyes have gotten bad

@johnsmithe4656 6 ай бұрын

I want cyborg eyes so bad. I'd sell my soul for cyborg eyes.

@MCsCreations 6 ай бұрын

@@johnsmithe4656 I'd say almost the same, but I don't have a soul. 😕 But seriously, I have damaged optical nerves, because of a surgery. So I guess it wouldn't help much...

@winder6 6 ай бұрын

Awsome. I remember you saying something like you hardly ever race but every time you do you have so much fun. Keep at it. Im 56 and not giving up. Great to see you doingb these kind of vids.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

You should join as well!

@winder6 6 ай бұрын

I would but currently live in a van

@JohnBrown-vn2qw 6 ай бұрын

@@winder6 down by the river?

@winder6 6 ай бұрын

@JohnBrown-vn2qw actually a lagoon. lol 😆

@Shauny_D 6 ай бұрын

The whole GOW community is very thankful for your support.

@RECK_Adventures 6 ай бұрын

You definitely got to that point where you've tried the same thing too many times in a row and started to get worse. Sometimes taking a freestyle break or even coming back the next day can lead to improving your time. Glad to see you flying whoops!

@pottyputter05 6 ай бұрын

Isn't there some neuro trick of practice at something for so many seconds or minutes and then a set time of clear minded rest? I could look it up, but I prefer to reply in the given moment like a conversation.

@RECK_Adventures 6 ай бұрын

@@pottyputter05 I haven't heard of it but I would believe it. It definitely helps me

@Pix_xelated 6 ай бұрын

2:00 your neighbors must think you're crazy 😂

@zachcagley9519 6 ай бұрын

Glad to see you're joining us this season! Hope you have a blast, man!

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Zach can you beat Bardwell? Sponsor battle!!

@unRealityFPV 6 ай бұрын

Practicing a course over and over has to be the #1 way to learn better stick control and precision, even if you never actually race. It really enforces the muscle memory of knowing how the quad will react when you move a specific way. You start thinking about where you're going to be rather than where you are, and chaining those movements together becomes very smooth

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Absouletly. especially these small RaceGOW tracks become about memorizing the stick motions. The fastest pilots barely even see the gates.

@JohnSmith_1331 6 ай бұрын

@@FPVSkittles I noticed that on velocidrone when I replay them in nemesis mode. I swear some of the guys look like their camera is only at 30 degrees and they are practically looking at the ground (while flying literally twice as fast as me).

@kieren7763 6 ай бұрын

If you want to race outside on a bigger course i use wooden stakes and pool noodles there nice and bright and one gate only cost $1-$2 you can also glue the pool noodles together to make wider arches for bigger drones just put two stakes in the ground like goal posts and slip the pool noodles over each one creating an arched gate you can also just run vertical gates aswell

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Great way to make a track. You can also use the pool noodles to go over your PVC so when you hit it you are less likely to damager your whoop ;)

@deezskeezy 6 ай бұрын

I used to race home made whoop gates and I'd use a few packs flying the track as slow as possible. My fast laps would be super dialed in after.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

you can use anything to make the gates. It doesn't have to be pvc. Join with your home made gates!

@navigator2011 6 ай бұрын

Nice to see you improve during your first session with this track. I've had entire flying sessions where I thought I forgot how to fly, lol!

@MCsCreations 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic flying, Joshua! 😃 Thanks a bunch for all the tips! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@docekalt 6 ай бұрын

I am super excitet that you are also participating ;-) After I saw Skittles is racing always in angle mode, I am not feeling like looser anymore that I am also using angle :D

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Hell Yeah! I ride hard for angle mode. I still believe most whoop pilots would do better in live races in angle mode.

@docekalt 6 ай бұрын

@@FPVSkittles exactly! When preparing for PTW5 (unfortunately not participating at the end), I was thinking about acro mode be exxective on bigger track, but angle was much more natural with whoops for me, so I ended with it

@JohnSmith_1331 6 ай бұрын

@@FPVSkittles I would definitely fly faster in angle mode on such a tight course, but I race to become a better pilot and I don't feel like angle mode translates into better flying. It's faster, but it will never make me better at flying in acro IMO.

@UnmannedSky 6 ай бұрын

I've started flying tinywhoops almost exclusively. I realized I needed to lower my camera angle significantly to have decent control. Put it down to 5 degrees approx and now I can fly tighter in acro and still plenty fast indoors.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

True, you dont need quite as much cam angle with whoops, also the whoop cams typically have a very wide FOV.

@jeffmcclain 3 ай бұрын

I watch your videos BECAUSE you show us even when you're self conscious. YT and social media is too full of "just the highlights" and super star one in a million run. Watching you sigh heavily and go "that whole pack was just garbage...absolute garbage." was exactly how I feel right now trying to learn how to fly this damn thing. I get the feel/flow and get pleased, and then the next pack is just crash, bonk, ping, suck!

@EvanBfpv 6 ай бұрын

watching this video while fixing my RaceGOW whoop!

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Hey Evan im interested to see how you do in RaceGOW. You have gotten a lot faster since you started showing up at races.

@EvanBfpv 6 ай бұрын

Hey! My current lap times that are submitted are cruddy and off of a tracks I made with taped up hoops-hoops. I just got my whoop fixed up and the ACTUAL coarse built. I am a lot faster than I was before, even just on this coarse. Right at this moment I am grinding it. I am so glad the deadline got extended because I would have had to watch back an hour or two of dvr and edit, post, and submit that in time. can't quite give you a time yet cause I need to watch back that DVR (haven't picked up lap timer yet) one quick question... even with my boxer plugged in, it dies super fast not sure how to fix it, any ideas? @@FPVSkittles

@EvanBfpv 6 ай бұрын

Pretty good, the times that are curently submitted were from a crusty version of the course made using hoola-hoops and tripods, now I fixed my whoop (until now, just messed up the camera bad...) and got the ACTUAL PVC course built! Can't give you an exact time yet because I haven't watched back all the DVR. I am (or should I say "was") grinding for at least and hour to an hour and a half and I am doing better. can't figure out why my radiomaster boxer is dying so fast though, even when it is plugged un to power and the ELRS module is at its lowest. output power, dies suuuuuper fast. Any ideas? thanks for checking in, it is nice to hear from you! And the reason I have been getting constantly faster at the races is because even though I haven't made it topmost of them, I have been grinding every day at home and so when I do make it to the race, there is a noticeable difference is my flights and placements. @ttles

@bladesfpv4179 6 ай бұрын

Talk about picking up the pace. Nice job.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Right! He really was making some sweet connected turns there once he figured it out.

@paparambo2557 6 ай бұрын

Love the fact that bardwells whoop is absolutely not calibrated 😂😂 over 1000mah in the first flight, secound flight was like 200mah and third was with 500mah 😂 I hope u had a lot of fun

@notsure1502 6 ай бұрын

MOAR RACING CONTENT!

@FPVinPA 6 ай бұрын

Yes.... MOAR please!

@johnsmithe4656 6 ай бұрын

What qualifies as Tiny Whoop? I have a 1S Meteor75. Would that count? This would be a great course to add to Liftoff Microdrones. Would be better to practice this in a sim. They just added a movie theater level to that game, it's pretty cool. In one of the theaters they're looping the trailer for that Rotor Dr1 movie. There are a couple things the Microdrones Liftoff version does better than the main title IMO, such as HD interference and Alt-Hold mode.

@michaelshemkus128 6 ай бұрын

It is on velocidrone if that helps

@michaelshemkus128 6 ай бұрын

might need micro class quads add on though

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

There are 4 IRL classes this season. You can learn more at RaceGOW.com but for the main game aka "1S whoop class" the requirements are 1S, fully ducted, 2in props max. thats all. There is also a 1S HD class, a UWL class, and an open class. Im not super familiar with Liftoff micro drones but the track is on Velocidrone and that leaderboard is also a class.

@Dorff_Meister 6 ай бұрын

Love it! I picked up a Meteor 65. For the last few days I've been working on my indoor acro and can fly around my house in acro with at least a small degree of ability - about as well as I was previously doing with Angle Mode. I made my first ladder (with 30" pipe sections) with an eye toward making this course and practicing. Just for fun, -my times will be garbage. I wanted to see how I did around just the ladder (three horizonal pipes) before building the whole thing, which might be a space issue indoors without some shuffling. At least my wife is supporting it all :) I really want to learn it in Acro, but we will see.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

You should join anyway! There are pilots of all skill levels participating. 3-lap times from under 14 seconds to over 100 seconds.

@Dorff_Meister 6 ай бұрын

@@FPVSkittles OK you broke me. I registered. Back to Home Depot and I guess I'll have a busy weekend trying to try.

@scottycamera 6 ай бұрын

Love these vids Josh!!

@ChainsawFPV 6 ай бұрын

Is that what I look like trying to explain a new course to someone??? No wonder they can never figure it out. Lmao!!!

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

haha! I tend to like fly throughs over walk through but pilots have different ways of learning things for sure.

@MyTube4Utoo 9 күн бұрын

That looks like fun.

@itissneer6260 6 ай бұрын

well done sir

@vertigo2893 6 ай бұрын

This is where you may want to try BF 4.5's new angle mode. In your review of BF 4.5 you poo-poo-ed the new angle mode (mostly because you should use a flat-ish rate curve as starting point, and not your acro mode rates), but its soo much more responsive, I think you will love it for tiny whoop racing.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

They have been saying angle mode is “new and improved” for like the last 4 betaflights. Idk why the can’t replicate the Quicksilver gyro recovery. Getting a drunk gyro is the worst part of angle mode.

@vertigo2893 6 ай бұрын

@@FPVSkittles you mean drunk accelerometer? I dont know if anything is fixed in that regard, it is a problem I also occasionally have after a crash. But that there is no denying the responsiveness has increased dramatically.

@robaxelsson530 6 ай бұрын

Would be great to have this in Velocidrone..with trails.. it would help to learn the track

@JoshuaBardwell 6 ай бұрын

It's there!

@JohnSmith_1331 6 ай бұрын

@@JoshuaBardwell That's the best way to learn the track IMO. I'm going to do it on velocidrone right now and learn the track so I can SMASH your times (virtually). I'll have to do it with my goggles on though, because I seem to fly faster when I'm using the monitor.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

It is an official / public track "RaceGOW2 Track2" - Velocidrone is also a sponsor and there is a velocidrone class with prizes :)

@yamasaur 6 ай бұрын

Cool think i want to try to do this! Thanks for the heads up

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Awesome to hear - join the discord, let me know if you have any questions.

@P.G._FPV 6 ай бұрын

@@FPVSkittles is it ok if I were to join after the 1st track? Just saw this but I will need to get the stuff ordered to build the track still... Thanks

@gadgetrc94 6 ай бұрын

Our Multi GP chapter uses a metal bucket to protect the lap timer. We used to think it helped shield RF from the track. When we suspected it might not be working, we put the bucket over the head and goggles off one of our fastest pilots. He saw no video degradation. JB, you might get better results putting your timer on the opposite side of the first gate.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

The RF timer is really just to give you an idea of what your best three laps are. Then you would go into the computer and put a timer on the DVR to get your "official" time for your submission video.

@wearemany73 6 ай бұрын

Summer’s on its way folks 😎

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

You can RaceGOW outside or inside ;)

@iurofpv 6 ай бұрын

hey can you show us how did you setup your lap timer so it doesn't take as many false readings with such a short track?

@JoshuaBardwell 6 ай бұрын

I put it inside a bucket to cut down off axis reads and aimed it carefully so it could only "see" the start finish gate.

@NightworksYT 6 ай бұрын

@vadimus2007 6 ай бұрын

Is current sensor off? Over 12A seems to be way too much for this type of flying around 3:45

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

thats not the total remember it just the most for one of four ESCs - a 12A board can take 48+A

@FPVMETV 6 ай бұрын

This looks like a good session! Anybody know if there is a structure made on liftoff of a track like this?

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

It is in Velocidrone if you have that

@Airbenderfpv 6 ай бұрын

I have a meteor 65 and 75 pro and if I remember correctly I flashed beta flight aio 2400 rx and worked fine and I’ve had no issues, is that normal for it to be like that?

@Bruce-Gisbon 6 ай бұрын

I'm dumb. I tried to scroll and click on bardwells screen. smh.

@Alluvian567 5 ай бұрын

One thing I cannot do is switch between acro and angle mode. It just breaks my brain. I have a hard time switching between dji and my freestyle quad even. Once I put the dji in sport my brain wants to fly it like it is my fpv quad and bad things happen, lol.

@blizzardfpv9584 6 ай бұрын

Post your time ⏲️ here everyone 👍

@NightworksYT 6 ай бұрын

@JohnnyScarsFPV 6 ай бұрын

45 seconds 😂

@_Bf-109 6 ай бұрын

22:48. Germany Aachen border to belgium and netherlands

@Halphbaked210 6 ай бұрын

Its about 3pm here

@KillerWhale806 6 ай бұрын

32.15. fastest single laps were in the 9s but I just couldnt string them together.

@Braincho 6 ай бұрын

Nice! What does Angle mode exactly do?

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Angle mode makes the drone hold pitch and roll level to the horizon when you are not giving a stick input. So you have hold pitch forward to keep flying forward.

@BumbleBeeFPV 6 ай бұрын

I would really try some racing but I have no lap timer yet. Can someone suggest a good solution that I can buy in Germany, maybe?

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

You don’t need a lap timer for RaceGOW you can watch you footage after to find you best laps. Or a lower tech timer you can use a voice stop watch - that’s what I do. Try this one. apps.apple.com/us/app/handsfree-stopwatch/id1481543256

@AtradiesInc 6 ай бұрын

Mine dont even have a mode for angle mode to set

@JohnSmith_1331 6 ай бұрын

You may need to set a switch to change modes in betaflight.

@AtradiesInc 6 ай бұрын

@@JohnSmith_1331 yea I dont have the option in betaflight on modes

@JohnSmith_1331 6 ай бұрын

@@AtradiesInc Did you disable your accelerometer to save cpu cycles? If that's off there is no angle mode option.

@kheshavdheereess5243 6 ай бұрын

Did you enjoy the sun😂😂😂

@pottyputter05 6 ай бұрын

Can individuals or groups sponsor something like the JB drawing for a fee to the organizers?

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

Yes absolutely - just message me some where like discord and we can discuss sponsorship. Anyone is welcome to sponsor.

@jo.kertech 6 ай бұрын

At 3:08 can you still use a battery and recharge it up when it ran all the way down like that?

@JoshuaBardwell 6 ай бұрын

Yeah it didn't go low for very long.

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

haha dont watch me - I run my batteries down to the mid 2.X volts often ;)

@airfriedquadsbw 6 ай бұрын

Used a 3s to jump start my car yesterday. Soon as it started. I jumped out and rushed to pull it off the car. Well it was approaching hot that quick. And it was puffing immediately. Between the drain, and the alternator turning on, it was a lost cause. Costly jump start but I got to work. Put the battery in a coffee can "plastic" with cold water. And that did stop the runaway reaction. 😮

@roman.koliada 6 ай бұрын

How do you track lap times?

@JohnSmith_1331 6 ай бұрын

I'm guessing he just looks at the replay and hand times it. You can also go to the video and note the start and finish frames and then just divide by the frame rate (probably 30, but possibly 29.97)

@FPVSkittles 6 ай бұрын

He uses the RF timer to locate his better laps and then adds a timer in editing.