I put together a quick video I shot while doing our iHobby Expo 2008 demos for the crowd. Sadly, because I was the guy on the mic as well, I didn’t get nearly as much footage as I would of liked! Next year I’ll have to get a MC or cameraman. Anyway.. enjoy.. it’s short and sweet.
Thanks again to all the fans that came out to the show and screamed their lungs out!

I’m working on another video that will be a walk-through of the entire show!

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We just picked the winners for the October 2008 Big Squid RC Contest! I’d like to thank all of our readers for their support, and for sending in those awesome Fan Pictures! Keep sending those pictures in! Just 2 months left to the Grand Prize Drawing for the brand new RTR Duratrax RT-X 27 Monster Truck!

We thought it would be fun to do a special drawing for October, so enjoy the video!

Congrats to our winners!
1) Samuel J. - Illinois
2) Brian D. - New York
3) Dave C. - Illinois

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We made it! The first Big Squid RC video ever posted to YouTube now has over 2 million views!
Wow! It’s awesome to be able to support not only the RC Drag Racing community, but just the overall RC community! A few months back I was in line for food at motorcycle stunt show, I had my Big Squid RC T-Shirt on, and the guy behind me taps me on the shoulder and says ‘Hey Dude.. I have seen your videos on the net! Nice Job!’ Now, I get that now and then when I’m at a RC event, but at a non-rc event? That was too cool!

Thanks to our millions (literally) of fans who suport us, watched the video, and voted!
Brian

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Here it is, the video of Nic Case’s 161.76mph run. At the moment, this is the World’s Fastest RC car run! If you scroll down below the embedded video, we have a local higher res version. This car was movin! It’s pretty short, hopefully we’ll get one with a few more angles.

There is also a local, higher res version located here:
Nic Case - 161.76mph run. Please RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS.

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Ok, this has been long over due, and I finally have it started! I am currently working on a new version of the Videos page! Everything from RC Drag Racing, RC Monster Trucks, RC Cars, RC Drifting and Bashing to contest drawings is being collected into one place!

It’s going to take a few days to get all the videos together.. they have been really spread out. After that, I’m going to try and get them in some sort of order, and work on better descriptions. Wish me luck! lol

For now, head over to the NEW RC Videos section and take a look! There are probably a few you have missed.

More coming soon!

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Here is the link for the Hi-Def version of the video I recently uploaded. This is from the first Lynwood Dragway event of the year. It was also the first event shot with the new Hi-Def camcorder! The video is zipped, and around 40 meg. It’s in mp4 format. If you don’t think you can watch such a video, check out the online version HERE! It’s in flash format. Enjoy!

R/C Drag Racing - Lynwood IL, Midwest RC Drag Racing Series Event - 40meg. MP4 format. (please right click, and save as)

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I finally had a few days to put together a full video from the Lynwood Dragway event opener a few months back! This was one of the first videos shot with the new Hi-Def camcorder! I’ll try and have a real hi-def version to download soon, but this one looks pretty darn good! This was an official Midwest RC Drag Racing event.

Thanks to everyone for all their support, this was a good time for sure! Feel free to discuss in the official Midwest RC Drag Racing Forum!

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Wow, what a great event! First off, I would like to thank all the awesome companies that helped provide prizes for the event!
HPI Racing, Duratrax, Parma, O’Donnell Racing, XXX Main, and ofcourse Leisure Hours Hobbies!
I would also like to thank John (from Leisure Hours Raceway) for doing an awesome job on the microphone, also Bill (Firesprink281), Chris (thenewguy812), Jodie, Josh (xirtic), and everyone else who helped make the event happen.

One of the coolest things about this event was all the different types of RC’ers that made the trip out to the event. We had the die hard bashers, a bunch of newbies and even pro-driver Tim Mohr! Most of these people have never even set foot at a race rc race track, and I think a lot of them will be back. We saw both nitro and electric trucks, with all sorts of makes and models, and towards the end of the event we had over 50 spectators enjoying the long jump action! This was cool for 2 reasons. 1) It’s a ton of fun as a driver to hear a big crowd of people ‘Ohh-ing’ and ‘Ahh-ing’, and B) A lot of these people got to see how fun RC can be, and will hopefully go out, buy some vehicles, and get into the hobby. I know I had several people ask me about specific trucks, and advice one what their first should be.

The first event was the monster truck obstacle course. (See the video after the read-more) The course consisted of some wooden whoop-di-doo’s, a big jump, some smaller ramps, a slalom, and the final table top challenge. I honestly didn’t think the table top was going to be as difficult as it turned out to be, but it sure did keep things exciting! The final part consisted of a split ramp and split table with two orange cones on the end. The first truck to run the obstacle course and touch one of the cones was the winner for that round. We ran a bracket style race with each section running for the best 2 out of 3.

After the obstacle course, it was time for RC Monster Truck Soccer! We had a nicely decorated ball (thanks Mini Squid!) and with a little work, we were able to work out the frequencies so that everyone who wanted to participate in the soccer event was able to do it at once! This proved a little insane! We every r/c monster trucks all on the field at once, all supposedly trying to get the ball into their goal. I say supposedly because most of the pile ups we no where near the ball! The red team won with a sudden death goal!

We then went inside to draw the raffle prizes and allow people to make repairs before the death long jump competition. I can’t thank the event sponsors enough! We had some of the greatest prizes an event like this has ever seen! We had a HPI Savage XL, a Duratrax RT-X 27, and 3 (yes three!) HPI 4×4 Wheely Kings, t-shirts, banners, tools, temp gauges, bodies, dvd’s, and more!

Pro-Driver Tim Mohr and John did the ticket drawing for the event, and we made sure that everyone that attended walked away with a prize!

We also had plaques for the winners of the long jump,obstacle course, and winning goal!

Last up was the LONG JUMP! The ramp was huge, and this truly was a ‘Go Big, or Go Home!’ event!
We are talking SERIOUS air here! Easily 40 feet high, and over 65 feet distances! Many trucks survived to make two passes, and the crowed showed their appreciation with cheering the brave drivers on!

The weather was perfect, everyone told me they had a great time, and are looking forward to the next one, and a lot of people got introduced to the world of RC. You really can’t ask for better than that!
If you didn’t make it out to this event, I hope to see you out at the next one! Thanks to everyone who came out and helped make the day special!

Keep an eye on the Big Squid RC news page for details! If you have any suggestions for events you would like to see, drop me an email!

Tons more pictures AND videos of the event after the jump: ,

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Since I know there are more then a few people out there that have trouble viewing the HiDef videos, I will start posting them over on HobbyZip.com since just about anyone can see the stuff there.

This is the 1/5th Scale RC HPI Baja 5B doing an awesome barrel roll video. Enjoy!

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Pro Driver, Tim Mohr, and I were out one morning testing the new HPI Baja 5B. We were also testing out the new HD Camera. The footage isn’t at full HD Def, or it would be too big to download, but I think it’s pretty good. You’ll need a .mp4 codec (or quicktime) to play it. To help save on bandwidth, please right click, and do SAVE AS.

HPI Baja 5B Barrel Roll Hi Def Video

I will be posting up some HD RC Drag Racing videos soon also! If you can’t wait, there are a few in the forum.

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We shot a lot of video at the iHobby expo this year in Chicago, and finally got a chance to cut the videos and get them posted. This is part of a set we did with a lot of the manufacturers at the show. Each person was told to introduce themselves, then they had 15 seconds to describe their RC product. It was a great time had by all. This first video is in the Axial booth! Enjoy.

High Res version here:
Big Squid RC iHobby 07 - Meet Axial. Please ‘right click, save as’ for best viewing.

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While we are still setting things up, we better test the youtube videos and make sure those are all good and working!

This video is from the Minnesota Drag Race event I was at last month where I won the Top Fuel Dragster class! You can read all about it in the Forum HERE. I hope you like the video, feel free to comment in the forums!

Hope that works!

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