is 9" good ?

[uneven wolf]

hello there, so, following my traditional thinking process of bigger is better, I was wondering if a 9" quad (like the merica 9" that unfortunatly is discontinued) was good for a flowy freestyle kind of flight, since all reviews of this kind of quad are more talking about how amazing it is to chase vehicules with it

[hexed mesa]

Freestyles are very personal styles but in general, bigger/heavier quads will feel very large, like driving a large boat I guess? It'll have a lot more momentum and tend to follow a straighter line and it'll be much less snappy than a ligher quad

so yeah, I would say in general that a larger quad size is better for flowy freestyle

The intermediate of snappy freestyle and straight long range would be flowy freestyle, and the intermediate quad size is generally a 7-9", so I think that's a good assumption to make

[uneven wolf]

I don't really have a reference, but like, the intro of jb's perfect freestyle build was exactly the kind of freestyle I do, and he called it stinger swarm style, but I don't watch stinger's videos so I can't really say for sure

[uneven wolf]

ok

[hexed mesa]

Ah assuming you mean this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khLQmqjwr5g

[uneven wolf]

yes

just flowy lines, and minimal floppy flops

[hexed mesa]

I want to say that some parts of that flying is a little snappy for a larger quad to do, but I think you're more interested in the majority of the slower "flowy" parts with wide powerloops and whatnot

I think, to some extent, the difference between 5" and 9" isn't incredibly massive, so it'd be up to preference and the space you have, but I'll let others give a second opinion

[uneven wolf]

indeed, he does a few like fast yaw spin and one I believe it is called a rubix cube, but I don't do any of that, I might do the occasional fast roll or pitch, but that is about it

[hexed mesa]

never heard of the rubix cube but the name makes sense

there's a small channel I'm thinking of that might have that kinda freestyle, let me see if I can find the video

[uneven wolf]

well, I was thinking about something between 6" and 9", to get more flight time while going faster

and I don't care that much that if it crashes into concrete it will implode, since I fly in fields and forests, and the freestyle I do isn't has risky for the props and the quad

[hexed mesa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b0Nh1WzJpQ

this guy used to do a lot of 10" stuff and most of it is long range but some of it is somewhere between flow freestyle and cruising. His videos at that park might give you an idea of how it'll fly in that kind of space

[uneven wolf]

ok, I am going to look at that