I took 2nd Place at the USA Drone Nationals

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  • čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
  • Wow. What a crazy weekend. Never would I ever have imagined that this would happen. My goal for the weekend was to be in the top 50%, but then I qualified and kept pulling off races by being consistent and flying against myself, rather than my opponents. In the final race, I heard my spotter say that Zach was 20 seconds ahead and that the 2nd place person crashed, so I decided to have a little fun around the track on the last lap.
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Komentáře • 148

  • @UAVfutures
    @UAVfutures Před 8 lety +18

    now it doesnt seem so weird having that big poster of you on my wall.......what
    grats on the win

  • @jonbbaca5580
    @jonbbaca5580 Před 8 lety +4

    Yeah man! Your pilot's journey has come to fruition. I've been following your channel pretty much since it started, and it's been awesome to see you come up from an unknown pilot to making podium at Nationals on ESPN! Congrats man, you've obsiously worked really hard and you deserve this!

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      it's crazy!! This ride has surpassed my wildest expectations.

  • @baefed
    @baefed Před 8 lety

    Congrats on 2nd at the Nationals my friend, amazing accomplishment. Your hard work this year has really paid off! Thanks for everything you do for the community, you are a true role model for all future pilots.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      Thank you so much! I hope this will help enable me to do more! :-)

  • @matts6807
    @matts6807 Před 8 lety

    Paul - it's been amazing to watch you hunt down your dream. Your positive attitude and drive are an inspiration to those around you. Ride this wave! I really like those PROPS!

  • @MkmeOrg
    @MkmeOrg Před 8 lety +3

    So well done Bud! No words for how cool this was. Cheers

  • @saczeke
    @saczeke Před 7 lety +2

    OK, now I understand why you're so knowledgeable....before I became aware that you were a contender I simply thought that you musta had an advanced degree in droneology. LOL Congrats on placing at Nationals and thanks for sharing. It's awesome to watch those mad skillz!!!

  • @imsundee
    @imsundee Před 8 lety +4

    Such a massive achievement congratz dude! Shows hard work pays off! Just makes me want to push myself even harder now.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety +3

      Awesome! That's exactly my goal! If you discipline and push yourself, you can do crazy things!

  • @runemauland9821
    @runemauland9821 Před 8 lety

    Congrats Paul. It's been a joy to follow your progress, and will be continued.

  • @driftingsort
    @driftingsort Před 8 lety

    Congrats man you've come a long ways! I remember you talking in your car awhile back how it was passion for getting better and knowing you could do it that was driving you. Look what you've done these last few months!

  • @Clutzz
    @Clutzz Před 8 lety

    Congrats man, been watching you fly and improve an insane amount over the last few months.
    Your practice paid off. You earned this.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      thanks for sending me to nationals! :-)

  • @marcplace6531
    @marcplace6531 Před 8 lety

    Congrats man. I know you worked hard for it. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.

  • @alumbakeller
    @alumbakeller Před 8 lety

    Awesome job. Glad to meet you this weekend and congratulations on second place!

  • @6figs
    @6figs Před 8 lety

    Pretty bad ass man, congrats as well!! Big like on this vid, love to see people making a name for themselves!!!

  • @flightbudz
    @flightbudz Před 8 lety

    Congratulations man!! Been awesome watching you throughout your journey and seeing that big things are possible.

  • @zevi
    @zevi Před 8 lety

    Very well done. Im so glad to see that you were enjoying yourself in these final races! With the hobby getting incredibly competitive that is the most important thing to remember, always have fun!

  • @timnilson
    @timnilson Před 8 lety

    Congrats for a great finish! Awesome video you have here of some of the behind the scenes craziness. I'm glad you made it all the way to the finals. Great job!!

  • @Snshne235
    @Snshne235 Před 6 lety +1

    Congrats m8!, you rock dude! The way you controll these monsters is outrageous fantastic! Thanks to you i am building my own fpv now with , ehm , well i hope good specs, i follow all ya tubes so i learn aloth!
    Thnx m8 for the inspiration and gr8 videos you make!

  • @safetythirdracing4486
    @safetythirdracing4486 Před 8 lety

    Dude congrats! Great vid man, love all the details! Keep it going, Paul, you're killing it!

  • @SSBelmont
    @SSBelmont Před 8 lety +2

    Now, you need to do a video on the setup and why you decided to go with the build, frame, change things etc.

  • @originaljayno
    @originaljayno Před 8 lety

    Congrats on the win. Can't wait to see more championships with you in them

  • @crimsonera
    @crimsonera Před 8 lety

    Congrats Paul! You went out there to have some fun and killed it.

  • @blackmennewstyle
    @blackmennewstyle Před 8 lety

    Congratulations man :D
    We are proud of you!
    Enjoy your week

  • @fsarfino
    @fsarfino Před 8 lety

    Gratz Paul. Nice to see all your hard work paid off for you :)

  • @steve-ofpv101
    @steve-ofpv101 Před 7 lety

    Killing it!!! Nice job! They were so serious at the beginning haha

  • @flymoreacademy9953
    @flymoreacademy9953 Před 8 lety

    Congratulations man! Great run, great video.

  • @sjorsikdus
    @sjorsikdus Před 8 lety

    congrats paul!
    keep on going all the way to the top!

  • @dlsspy
    @dlsspy Před 8 lety

    Awesome dude. I wasn't following the races, but yours is the only race I watched so far. You beat a lot of people.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      Not only the competitors there, but also everyone that was not able to qualify.

  • @Humboldt710
    @Humboldt710 Před 8 lety

    It was cool to be able to chat with you this weekend. Great work under pressure too!

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      Very glad to finally meet you as well!

  • @michaelinmotion
    @michaelinmotion Před 8 lety

    Oh man! I left on the 5:30 ferry, so I wasn't there to know exactly who won. CONGRATS! That's awesome! Great work!

  • @KittFPV
    @KittFPV Před 7 lety +3

    Such a boss run tho, nice save as well!! 5:19

  • @sea2c
    @sea2c Před 8 lety

    YEEEAAAAH Buddy! Big congrats man.

  • @mikefoley360
    @mikefoley360 Před 8 lety

    Congratulations and best wishes.

  • @m3fpv253
    @m3fpv253 Před 8 lety +1

    WOW you were right behind a nub and i! just one mistake cost you a lot of time. good racing dude! i love how you just started having fun with it. you definitely win in style points.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      oh! You are chris wang/M3. That's freaking hilarious! Yeah after I missed that obstacle, I was 15 seconds back, and there was just no way to catch up, so I put on a show for ESPN. :P

  • @Skalamusa
    @Skalamusa Před 8 lety

    Congrats, bud! You deserve it!

  • @fpvquadjockey9195
    @fpvquadjockey9195 Před 8 lety

    Awesome job! You earned it.

  • @Lynn_The_Photographer
    @Lynn_The_Photographer Před 8 lety

    Congratulations Bulbufet!

  • @KwadSquadFPV
    @KwadSquadFPV Před 8 lety

    Congrats man, you deserve it.

  • @rambozo_fpv176
    @rambozo_fpv176 Před 8 lety +1

    Was it Zach or Jordan? I came to watch this video while listening to you on Quadtalk Podcast and noticed the description says Zach. :) You have a great attitude, man. Love it. Congrats on all your success. Much more to come, I'm sure.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety +1

      Zach. Sorry about that, I kept screwing it up. :P

  • @dwade_fpv
    @dwade_fpv Před 8 lety

    Wow man! congratulations...thats amazing!

  • @LeakyMeat
    @LeakyMeat Před 8 lety +1

    congratulations, you looked very relaxed there despite the the undoubted pressure of such an event.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety +1

      That's been a large part of my goal during the last few months.

  • @donaldtrump5489
    @donaldtrump5489 Před 8 lety

    Congratulations! Nice Flying!

  • @mikefpv6333
    @mikefpv6333 Před 8 lety

    That was a great race keep it up you can only get better 👍

  • @Stormin13
    @Stormin13 Před 8 lety

    Congratulations dude - keep the winning streak going.

  • @Jamie1499
    @Jamie1499 Před 8 lety

    Congrats man, well done!!!

  • @gankedfpv6381
    @gankedfpv6381 Před 8 lety

    well done dude. happy for you

  • @justinhillpac
    @justinhillpac Před 8 lety

    Those rolls tho. . . awesome job man!

  • @pizzyfpv
    @pizzyfpv Před 8 lety +2

    hell yeah doing flips and rolls, hellz yeah

    • @matts6807
      @matts6807 Před 8 lety

      hmmm, who else do we know that starts 'clowning' during races???!!

  • @BMSWEB
    @BMSWEB Před 8 lety

    Sweet run man!! Looked like a hard track to follow.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety +1

      Thank you! I spent a long long time reviewing DVR and doing course visualization to learn the course, since we didn't get to fly many batteries on it.

    • @BMSWEB
      @BMSWEB Před 8 lety

      You did an epic job!! Would have been so much nicer if they made the race track look like a race track

  • @hobie1613
    @hobie1613 Před 6 lety +4

    Good job!

  • @sethmo38
    @sethmo38 Před 8 lety

    congrats Paul!

  • @DavidiiXV
    @DavidiiXV Před 8 lety

    CONGRATULATIONS PAUL! :)

  • @ZENJOYSHORTs
    @ZENJOYSHORTs Před 8 lety

    congrats my friend that was a great run

  • @Phiqtional
    @Phiqtional Před 8 lety

    Congrats on a great race!

  • @tlee9484
    @tlee9484 Před 6 lety

    What a run.... 😊

  • @GAPiTFPV
    @GAPiTFPV Před 8 lety

    Woa, congrats man!

  • @iforce2d
    @iforce2d Před 8 lety +1

    Nice recoveries!

  • @ghostechvids
    @ghostechvids Před 8 lety

    Congrats!!!

  • @VaginaLInspektA
    @VaginaLInspektA Před 6 lety

    Siiiick .... good job bro . I wanna be able to do acro soon so cool.

  • @Mcdonaldt001
    @Mcdonaldt001 Před 8 lety

    congrats bro! love the name by the way

  • @KassioLM
    @KassioLM Před 8 lety

    nice race man, congrats!!!

  • @TheDavidCudd
    @TheDavidCudd Před 8 lety

    congrats! very cool!

  • @thecarbonprop
    @thecarbonprop Před 8 lety

    Congrats!

  • @jlmossjr
    @jlmossjr Před 8 lety

    Congrats man !

  • @JaydenLawson
    @JaydenLawson Před 8 lety

    Well done

  • @prOkrEAt
    @prOkrEAt Před 8 lety

    awesome job! was rooting for you... come such a long way since i subbed to your channel. inspiring.

  • @mistercohaagen
    @mistercohaagen Před 8 lety

    You took 2nd with RTFQ motors? Excellent... Witespy should be proud.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety +1

      He is. :-) We've been chatting today.

  • @MicBergsma
    @MicBergsma Před 7 lety

    Amazing!

  • @christinat.5477
    @christinat.5477 Před 8 lety

    Niiiiice!! Congrats!

  • @zaqwsx28
    @zaqwsx28 Před 8 lety

    The first lap was crazy.

  • @bexterollie
    @bexterollie Před 7 lety +1

    I'm thinking about going to the drone nationals. Would you recommend anything to prepare? (At Arizona)

  • @SSBelmont
    @SSBelmont Před 8 lety

    You are smart and a good pilot that is why you finished 2nd! Don't sell yourself short dude, it was a very smart call to go 6"! Very smart and BIG congrats to you!

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      I'm glad I stuck with my gut on that.

    • @matts6807
      @matts6807 Před 8 lety

      +Bulbufet FPV NICE PROPS!

  • @chrisbewrx
    @chrisbewrx Před 8 lety

    well done!!!!

  • @RCflyer729
    @RCflyer729 Před 8 lety

    Nice job!

  • @ilefpv536
    @ilefpv536 Před 8 lety

    Congrats!! :)

  • @rolandescher
    @rolandescher Před 8 lety

    Loved that last lap! Kudos on the #2 spot! :D

  • @HungryEyezFPV
    @HungryEyezFPV Před 8 lety

    Nice run

  • @Dailyartpallette
    @Dailyartpallette Před 8 lety

    congrats. .

  • @wuzzel
    @wuzzel Před 8 lety

    great run! :)

  • @mtlracing1567
    @mtlracing1567 Před 8 lety

    points for style?great race man

  • @demetriusarmstrong2514

    Yeah!!!!

  • @SSBelmont
    @SSBelmont Před 8 lety

    I smell a Lumenier sponsorship coming! You could have rolling on 2206 2350KV Lumenier's! They would be crazy not to pick you up! Very happy for you man!

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      they have a lot of fast people already! :-

    • @SSBelmont
      @SSBelmont Před 8 lety

      Lets have this conversation next year. Just keep doing what you are doing and we will see. Stay humble, it will take you places! woot woot!

  • @David__
    @David__ Před 8 lety

    Congratulations! Must be hard to concentrate - reckon I'd be wearing headphones :)

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety +1

      I need to be able to hear my spotter, who is giving me very important information.

    • @David__
      @David__ Před 8 lety

      Yes, reckon it would have been tricky hearing your spotter too... very important.
      From my car racing experience ... You could use something like this & also pipe in some music too :) www.racingcommunications.com/

  • @blakehall1348
    @blakehall1348 Před 8 lety

    Great job man! What were those little devices that they had when they were looking at your quad?

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      They are RFID programmers, and they use them to activate and set the channel on the VTX.

  • @promess
    @promess Před 8 lety

    Nice video!

  • @selaI3
    @selaI3 Před 8 lety

    Cangruatulations man! Awesome performance from you this weekend! does this mean you get to go to drone worlds?

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      That's what I'm told! :-)

    • @selaI3
      @selaI3 Před 8 lety

      Bulbufet FPV Awesome!

  • @J272
    @J272 Před 8 lety

    It's the shirt that did it. No doubt.

  • @dubbydub9245
    @dubbydub9245 Před 5 lety

    @ZoeFPV doin' the Cabbage Patch in the background. 1:30 😄

  • @inmersouav
    @inmersouav Před 8 lety

    congrats dude, what was your setup?

  • @tahosrfr
    @tahosrfr Před 8 lety +1

    Congrats, you're one cool cucumber, esp with that announcer in your frigg'n eardrum:)

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      I'm used to joe chatting away while the races are going on. Part of my "training" over the last 4 months has been working on staying calm and focused when the pressure is on. It's paid off.

  • @maxzorazon
    @maxzorazon Před 8 lety

    Congratz!
    Where you running betaflight there?
    And ANub was running Kiss right?

  • @rolirolster
    @rolirolster Před 6 lety

    Nice, although next time can we have the drone cam screen being the bigger one, as a spectator that's what I'm interested in seeing, not some guy sitting still looking at something I can't see :-) #justsaying

  • @JeromeDemers
    @JeromeDemers Před 8 lety

    so your not plug in and they can change the frequency of your VTX... I don't get it...

    • @JeromeDemers
      @JeromeDemers Před 8 lety +3

      so the wand can power the IC near the RFID antenna and it store some info in eeprom/flash, when you power up, the VTX will go read that info to initialise the good settings.

  • @DJNuckChorris
    @DJNuckChorris Před 6 lety

    When he says to the official "I need to be wanded on Three" what is he asking for?

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 6 lety

      +DJ Nuck Chorris the wand sets the channel that my video will be on.

  • @illegitimate0
    @illegitimate0 Před 8 lety

    Why were they using channels 8, 5, 2, and 1? Seems like a disadvantage for the people at 2 and 1 (and they were the ones that crashed). Why wasn't it 1, 3, 5, and 8? Seems unnecessary to saddle two of them with extra interference between each other. Then again it may have been fine.

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      They were the best channels available. The wifi on people's phones, and the dish network that was sending the ESPN feed back to the mainland were interfering with the channels that we had available. We were only using about 25mw, so the channel to channel interference was minimal.

  • @UlyHeadsUp
    @UlyHeadsUp Před 8 lety

    cool

  • @dwade_fpv
    @dwade_fpv Před 8 lety

    What were they scanning on your ESCs before the race?

    • @SSBelmont
      @SSBelmont Před 8 lety

      That is the new immersionRC Tramp vTX. The race directors can control the band, channel, mWh using that wand. I think we are doing to start seeing this feature for a lot of vTXs, no more dip switches or buttons.

    • @dwade_fpv
      @dwade_fpv Před 8 lety

      Nice! Very cool

  • @woutchauvaux6672
    @woutchauvaux6672 Před 7 lety +1

    what where they measuring next to your quad?

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 7 lety

      Wout Chauvaux they were using a wand to chance video frequencies. on the immersion rc tramp

    • @woutchauvaux6672
      @woutchauvaux6672 Před 7 lety +1

      they can change frequencies wireless like that? do they give you the channel you need to switch to on your goggles then?

  • @teourbs
    @teourbs Před 7 lety +1

    As if there wasn't enough pressure just competing, than you have cameras stuck in your face lol. I still think Thomas from Australia is mucher faster tho!

  • @007bennett
    @007bennett Před 8 lety

    What props were you running?

  • @StacemanFPV
    @StacemanFPV Před 8 lety

    Is that an FAA sticker? ;-)

    • @NURKFPV
      @NURKFPV  Před 8 lety

      Indeed it is.

    • @StacemanFPV
      @StacemanFPV Před 8 lety

      Bulbufet FPV good for you! Got it on mine too