How do they control the drone and get such steady pics in this wind.

"Gyros" maybe ? they use them on RC planes and helicopters to counter act wind gusts.

The cameras are gyroscopically stabilised. I saw the camera on a Channel 7 News helicopter recently and it was the same principle...but cost a whopping $300000. These drones are cheap and do a pretty good job. They can also use gyros to stabilise them in the hover...much better than helicopters.

Man, I wanna go for a blast now. Real bad.

Maui 2015. This time for sure.

Select to expand quote

evlPanda said..
Man, I wanna go for a blast now. Real bad.

Maui 2015. This time for sure.

Thinking the same thing. Here in cold, windless Sydney. Looking forward to summer though. Love to be able to sail like those guys, skimming across the water.

Looks just like the action at my local last weekend.

This is filmed with a DJI Phantom 2 in 30 knots by Ricardo Campello



I was pretty suprised how smooth it is in the chop. He was flying it around the day before in +35 knots and it seemed to be doing ok.

That perspective totally makes the racing come alive!

Should be be standard coverage for all finals going forward . How sick did the gybes look!!

wow the scenery is awesome, racing so fast and great music wow something else...wish i could jibe

Select to expand quote

Reflex Films said..
That perspective totally makes the racing come alive!

Should be be standard coverage for all finals going forward . How sick did the gybes look!!

It really does! Just amazing to see the angles people are coming in at the first gybe ... how we don't all kill each other each time ... haha

Select to expand quote

SeanAUS120 said..

Reflex Films said..
That perspective totally makes the racing come alive!

Should be be standard coverage for all finals going forward . How sick did the gybes look!!

It really does! Just amazing to see the angles people are coming in at the first gybe ... how we don't all kill each other each time ... haha

Also what looked really sweet from this angle and with such clear water is seeing all the individual lines they take to get clean air and water. You just can't appreciate that from the beach or water.

awesome footage, I love watching someone nail a blistering exit.

can't wait for spring.

I just got an email about some new gadgets & this was amongst it.
Seems it follows you around.

www.airdog.com/

Pre-order, get a discount & it arrives the same time as your pre-ordered red sails

That airdog looks really useful...not too bad of a price either!

Yeah that Air dog sounds awesome. It would be great if you could tell it to follow you from a certain distance and height.

Would be interesting to see if it had enough smarts to avoid crashing into another air dog. Imagine if there are 2 or 3 guys out windsurfing with there air dogs following them around.

Select to expand quote

windaddict said..
Yeah that Air dog sounds awesome. It would be great if you could tell it to follow you from a certain distance and height.

Would be interesting to see if it had enough smarts to avoid crashing into another air dog. Imagine if there are 2 or 3 guys out windsurfing with there air dogs following them around.

According to the video you can set the altitude and it seems distance too!