The Drone Racing League has gone from a dream to a major network sport at a breakneck pace. We met world champion Paul Nurkalla, aka Nurk FPV, and got an inside look at the DRL’s quest to be the next big sports league.
You can learn more about @NURKFPV on his YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCc4i_lIw-fW9oBXh6yTnw
And you can learn more about @DroneRaceLeague here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVmHW7d57ICmEf9WGIp1CA
Somewhere between esports, NASCAR and Star Wars sits drone racing, also known as FPV racing. It’s a breathtakingly fast spectacle where drone pilots fly quadcopters that go 0 to 80 miles per hour in under a second through complex race courses. It’s currently attempting to shift from a fringe sport to the mainstream, and hit a major milestone as it signed an exclusive deal to air its 2019 series on Twitter and NBC Starting a pro sports league from scratch has its challenges, and the FPV racing community is finding innovative ways to meet them. They’re using a video game to find talented new prospects and then helping develop them into the best fpv racers in the world. It’s resulted in unconventional stars like Wanraya Wannapong, aka Milk FPV – an 11-year-old girl from Thailand who became the FAI Female World Champion. The competition is intense and the prizes are increasingly bigger – so athletes like @NURKFPV have to train like hell to stay flying in the big leagues.
What do you think – will professional drone racing continue to soar? Would you give it a try? Let us know in the comments!
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Wow!!!!
I was actually already familiar with drone racing, but this was a more in depth look at it than I’d gotten before.
Awesome!
Nice video. I have been flying a freestyle drone and making videos with it for over three years and it is the most fun i have ever had. It is great to see you bring attention to this awesome hobby. I have only gone to one race event because i live in a rural area but looking forward to doing it again.
Imagine one of those things smacking you in the face
The future is here
Do you think it’ll be the next big sport?
I really want there to be a follow up on this video. Part 2 part 2 part 2!
#slaughterbots
Drone
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Organization of
New
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DRONE. 😀
Or football or football 🤣
competetors NOT athletes 🤣 being 💯💯
02:32 That’s a bit of an exaggeration; there is auto-stabilization, if you let go of the sticks the drone stops rotating and sits in the same orientation until it hits something or runs out of battery; there is a system called the Flight Controller that works pretty hard to keep the drone exactly at the rotation speed the sticks tell it to be at. What he is actually talking about is that usually these drones are flown in what is called “rate” or “acro” mode, where you control the rate of rotation, there is no auto-leveling, the drone doesn’t automatically go back to flat when you let go of the sticks, and if you keep a stick pushed, the drone keeps rotating.
It may look like a difficult hobby, but its really not. If you’d like more info, comment. Ive been in the hobby for a while now. Tons of fun I tell you.
Super cool video!
Got into it over a year ago. It truly takes patience and discipline. Most fun I’ve ever had.
Hey its another noob flying drWEEEEEEEEEE!!..oh shhit <_<
This is a wonderfully informative video about drone racing!! Good job guys! I’ve been enjoying this hobby since 2014.