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In the grass of Los Angeles Park, Carlos Puertolas controlled an X-shaped drone flying at high altitude, then quickly rotated toward the ground, and then swooped at full speed. Just a few inches from the ground, it suddenly flew in the horizontal direction. The propeller swept the grass like a weeder and finally landed five feet away. His hand left the radio manipulator and took off a pair of opaque white glasses.
The bundle of bangs in front of the forehead is gray, and the beard is as rough as a woman's headscarf. This Spanish called Puertolas is indifferent but modest. He is known for his record of "five minutes and eight seconds." As a top cartoonist in DreamWorks, Puertolas also has a higher identity - the best drone game player in the world (he mentioned above is a drone development kit. Company Lumenier R & D). Spirals, somersaults and swoop... You can see various freestyle acrobatics on Puertolas' YouTube homepage. In a video called "Left Behind," he manipulated a drone with a speed of up to 80 miles per hour and passed through the ruins of a abandoned hospital. The pilots call it the Cathedral of Charpu. Charpu is the famous "stage name" of Puertolas.
"When I started to study drone competitions, Charpu swept the entire network," said Maurice Sallave, another drone flyer from Los Angeles. "I watched his video with only one thought in mind: How did he do it?" As of now, more than 1.5 million people have seen "Left Behind". Between 2014 and 2015, UAV sales in the United States rose from 430,000 to 1 million. Later, everyone saw Charpus's video and he instantly became an unofficial spokesperson for the sport. Lumenier then began selling two drones: the QAV210 Charpu Edition and the new QAV-X Charpu.
Not surprisingly, the rise of drone competition will prompt people to organize this event more enthusiastically. In the past two years, in the United States and other countries, the major independent leagues quickly gathered the best players and launched fierce competitions on the track. Last year, a team backed by Steve Ross, the owner of Mia Dolphins, hosted the UAV Tournament. The league toured across the United States. It has the same status as the US Nascar in the sports world. In March, they hosted the first World Drone Prix in Dubai, where a total of 32 teams competed for a prize of 250,000 US dollars. The camera placed on the drone captured the entire process of the game and put real-time images on the big screen of the stadium. The audience was amazed by this visual feast. In April, the UAV Sports Association announced that they and ESPN will collaborate on webcasting at the second UAV Championship - from August 5th to August 7th at Governors Island in New York. This event was broadcast live by ESPN3. At the same time, up to five million dollars in bonuses are set. Scot Refsland is chairman of the Drone Sports Association and he believes this is just the beginning. The game in Dubai made many people imagine what drones could become in the future. He said - "E-sport gambling, competitions and virtual and augmented reality."
The game organizers all want to join the most famous flying player in this field. But the problem is that Charup, the world's most dazzling drone star, does not want to participate in the game this way - he thinks it is boring, and he is not particularly good at participating in the game. "I had the best and happiest time. There were only about four or five people around me. Under that kind of environment, I didn't have any pressure."
Puertolas were the first people who managed to move drones faster. He was born in Nuevos Ministerios next to Madrid. Every year on Christmas Day, his father sent him a radio-controlled car, but he did not hesitate to take care of it. He took off his car and took a closer look when he arrived. He always removes the wheels and auxiliary motor indirect transmissions, and then welds them into his new invention - just like the device he used to take a glass of water from his mother. Puertolas did not attend high school. He went to an art school to learn animation and spent a lot of time on the production of short films. In 1999, at the age of 18, he took a position from a video game company in England. He then used his first salary to buy an electric plane and a drone-controlled helicopter.
In the following years, Puertolas successfully caught the attention of DreamWorks by sending him various animated short films produced by DreamWorks. He obtained an opportunity to work as an animator in San Francisco. Even though he was already in a very high position at the company, he still missed all the novelties he once blew up—opening the flight model and sending it to England by air. So he bought a four-rotor electric drone called Ladybird, which is only as large as a human hand. In the spare time, lunch breaks and weekends, he will go to the drone. Every day, when his colleagues heard a faint buzz from the top of the head, they knew that Puertolas must have played his Ladybird in the office.
In 2014, Puertolas saw a video made by someone named Boris B. He was the earliest drone pilot to record the flight process and upload a flight footprint. Boris B flies over the mini four-axis, H-shaped, and four-rotor drones (also known as four-axis aircraft). The digital camera installed on the drone recorded the entire flight, so he could edit the flight footprint and upload it online. The second camera transmits real-time video to the glasses he wears so that he can see where the drone is. He seems to be on the road - this is what people now call the first person perspective drone game. "I was thinking about it at the time: Please! It was another thing!" Then Puertolas bought the QAV250, the largest mini four-axle drone Lumenier had sold at the time. He said: "The first-person perspective changed everything." 
He had a short test flight outside his apartment in San Francisco, where he lived with his girlfriend (last summer they moved to Los Angeles). He started uploading videos from the first test flight, but these videos are still an undisclosed part of his Charpu FPV YouTube. There is no creative idea in this video, nor is there a transition from one scene to another. This is completely different from his later videos that tell stories in the air.
Soon, Puertolas combined his enthusiasm for FPV games with his movie talent. At the end of May 2014, many FPV contestants discovered that Charpu began to appear in his own video. “We didn’t have time to blink.†In the video released that month, Charpu quickly moved along the train tracks and the highway, broke through obstacles in the jungle, and quickly drove under his Fiat 500 chassis, with a drummed background. Music is very high-tech. At the end of the video, the drone crashed and ended in failure.
"I think people can resonate with this video because they feel that I'm doing something that few people are doing," he said. "A lot of people will stop at me and say, 'Dude! I'm Because I saw your video before I started playing drones!"
Puertolas quickly caught the attention of Lumenier, who began giving Puertolas free gifts of engines, propellers, electronic parts, and all drone development kits. "The first thing we do marketing is to sponsor sponsors who have bought our equipment, you know, viral marketing," said Andy Graber, general manager and founder of Lumenier.
Before the fall of that year, Puertolas used to do various exercises with his five friends in the Bay Area. His flying special effects became more exquisite. They even gave this small group a cool name, Propkillas. They always practice at various abandoned landmarks, such as an old American apartment in Nevada, which was shown in the "Right Between the Eyes" in September 2014. To find more people online who want to try drone flying, he set up a team called FPV Explorers in Berkeley, California. In October, Puertolas appeared at the Explorers' party with his QAV250.
"That was the first time I saw a flying swoop!" Refsland said excitedly. Puertolas steered his drone 100 feet straight and then suddenly rushed toward the ground. “In the end when he left, people were saying, 'Oh my God, I can’t believe my eyes!'†Each week, everyone came to the scene with Puertolas and the same equipment, playing like Puertolas. Tricks.
Refsland, 52, has grey hair and glasses. He is a PhD in virtual reality. After joining the FPV race at the beginning of the test flight at the beginning of the year, he said: " It took me 30 years to find a real drone game and experience real virtual reality." In April 2015, he finished watching at Santa Cruz. After a game with Explorers, it began to have a more ambitious blueprint. Later, the organizers of the California Fair to be held in Sacramento asked him to design events for the July event. In two months, he designed a very competitive project and drew sponsors with certain prestige in the drone sector and $25,000 in bonus sponsorship. He also sent Puertolas a lot of emails and tempted him to attend.
The Sacramento Expo is the first U.S. national drone tournament in the United States, although participants come from all over the world. They participate in the five laps and free programs, which are as competitive as Puertolas did in his video, and the referees need to score their imagination for the fancy show.
Puertolas finally decided to appear, but he still had suspicions and anxiety. Refsland recalled that Puertolas's thumb flicked during the game, "like a leaf that flies in a wind of fifty miles an hour." On the second match day, he came out of the court and wanted to overcome fear. He flew his own place away from everyone's sight. "There are cameras everywhere. Everywhere, there is the voice of the guy called Charpu who everyone wants to overcome..." Puertolas said. "I like to be in touch with people, but the game is really too hard for me and it's too hard. It's up."
However, there is no loss for Charpu to join. From Sacramento, he was invited to participate in many large and small events. He even really participated in some of these games. In June, he was one of the twelve flyers sponsored by Mountain Dew and hosted by DR1 Racing. At the same time, he also registered for the National Championships on Governor’s Island.
Last fall, Refsland reimbursed many famous flyers for their travel expenses and sponsored them to Hawaii to participate in the upcoming World UAV Championships in October, including Puertolas. He said that Puertolas ignored the authority at that time and tried to fly his QAV210 over the tropical villages, sending out loud noises and even manipulating his drones to fall from a 2000-foot-high waterfall.
"Carlos is a man that everyone can't ignore," Refsland said. "But he always insists he is not a player. He likes to play with flying players. He said they are a group."
No one knows what kind of drone competition will become in the future - is it like e-sports, video games, starting from the online world, and then becoming a valued at 175 million in the industry? Sacramento's activities attracted hundreds of viewers to watch the game, and the number of people who watched the game live on TV was as high as 35,000. In November last year, the UAV League held its first game, and the video released on Twitch attracted 100,000 viewers in just a few months. In addition, this league has won more than eight million US dollars in total investment.
Puertolas is not the first person to turn his hobby into a specialty and then mainstream it. Rodney Mullen was very fond of ice skating since childhood and he became the world's top skater. Mullen said, "There was no video shooting in the early years. We focused on the game. We trained for the game." In 10 or even 11 years, Mullen won almost all of his championships. "I am obsessed with gold and silver, but when I no longer stick with the success or failure of the game, I can use my imagination in all directions instead of binding myself in the game."
The core of skating is not just about winning or losing. “The game is always linked to perseverance rather than innovation.†But skating culture emphasizes individuality, uniqueness and differentiation are more important than rankings. The advent of video allows everyone to fully demonstrate their uniqueness. In many cases, the championship is not the favorite athlete of other skaters. "Video can capture the best moments of athletes without spending time."
Just like skaters, people who like to tinker with a variety of remote model cars like children, but do not like sports will not like the zero-sum game. YouTube is where they enjoy themselves, where the important thing is not competition but creativity.
Currently, Puertolas owns three drones in its own studio: two QAV210 Charpu Editions and a new QAV-X Charpu released in July. Although the H shape is most compatible with batteries and cameras, the QAV-X Charpu uses a new X shape that is lighter, faster, and better able to perform a variety of acrobatic moves. Puertolas hopes to use this new device to push drone movements to new limits.
Recently, he teamed up with several famous riders including Chad Nowak, Steele Davis, and Tommy Tibajia to form a small group named Rotor Riot. Their goal is to enjoy the love of drone flying on YouTube and tell this story. The story behind technology and the flying hands. In a recent video, they controlled a four-axle drone to quickly move over an outdoor shooting range and then used it to threaten a policeman. The policeman eventually shot down their drone with a gun. The total number of clicks on this video exceeds 160,000.
"Some people want to see drone flying simply as a hobby, but others want to make money through it. This is inevitable." Puertolas said, "Maybe the game will become more and more mainstream, and freestyle flight and The ruins of the flight will become underground activities." Yes, no one knows where the drone game will go, perhaps in the end, it is not just an event.
One evening in April, Puertolas drove to a parking lot not far from his home. There, a midnight stunt show by Los Angeles Flyers is showing. “You feel very relaxed and very free. It's like you can do anything you want to do. There is nothing more exciting than controlling this small thing to fly fast.â€
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