Freestyle FPV is one of my favorite art forms, recently I’ve been using the head tracking gimbal for freestyle and trying new moves. There are a few new tricks I’ve come up with and many more just waiting to be discovered. If you’re a freestyle pilot reading this, please consider starting to explore this yourself, I am limited as an individual both in time and creativity, I would love to see what the community can create with it.
There are three tricks that I want to cover in this article, as well as some variations to existing fixed-angle tricks.
The new tricks I am claiming/naming are the following:
- “Stall Dive”
- “Roll Out”
- “Bop It”
The is from the Team Drone Adventures BBQ Bando FPV festival, it opens with perch to a negative tilt punch out (not calling that a trick but is fun and looks cool), in the next clip you can see a “roll out” where I use negative angle to ascend while coordinating a roll centered on a subject bellow and maintaining that coordinated roll while increasing camera angle to come back towards the subject (technical trick as the coordination between roll and yaw changes are you change camera angle). Also do a “pull out” from the ‘Team Drone Adventures” sign at the end of that clip.
This is the whoop gimbal on a toothpick quad. It opens with a twist out to “bop it” (push it, pull it, flick it, bop it) which I primarily define by a pull out to juicy flick, but the pitch movement of the flick is half gimbal movement and half the drones pitch, easy to over rotate the drone when first learning this. Also features a “stall dive” where you use negative angle to look down while hovering, then chop throttle and pitch down while increasing camera angle.
Here’s another better example of the “stall dive”.
Here’s a third person view of the “bop it” (push it, pull it, flick it, bop it).
I don’t currently have a video showing this but the gimbal also allows variations to the existing fixed-angle freestyle tricks we know and love. For example, the power loop, with the gimbal you can ‘look down’ as you are starting the power loop to remain looking forward and then quickly ‘look up’ near the end similar to the ‘bop it’ and it creates a whole new feel for the power loop. This is a single example but there are countless potential variations.
Happ flying, y’all!
Medlin Drone 