Kobe Cantin Interview - Evolution of Joe Nall, IMAC and freestyle flying

You know, we flew 6 to 10 flights a day of just IMAC, of the best precision pilots in the world saying, "Dude, that loop sucked.

It was a nine.

I would need you to be at a 10." You know what I mean? So it just, it drilled into my mind geometry, geometry, geometry, geometry, and it kind of messes up me watching anything now, um, because you just kind of see, see things.

But at the end of the day, it's, it was such a helpful tool, um, in terms of really skyrocketing my growth as a pilot, I think, and I think a lot of people don't understand that until they look back and they're like, "Dang, I'm happy I did that." So yeah.

Yeah, I, I, I definitely would agree with that, your own sentiment.

Um, I think many times I talk to some young kids, really good pilots in some local events, and yeah, I think they are doing a lot of, like, XA, 3D, and you can often tell the people that have some kind of pattern, IMAC background-

Mm.

Yeah

... versus the ones that don't.

Um, I think, I think there's the obvious thing around precision, where like a pilot that has done IMAC versus not, they're probably gonna be more precise on precision maneuvers.

That's obvious.

But even besides that, even when they are doing, like, pure 3D XA maneuvers, I think the, the placement, the, the place where you start the maneuver, the-

Mm-hmm

... location, the positioning, the way you exit the maneuver.

Yeah.

Uh, the difference between doing a cool pop, um, popped up and see where the plane feels like going-

Mm-hmm

... versus I'm gonna do a popped up here and I'm gonna exit at-

There, yeah

... 90 degrees here at the end of the runway, or gonna make it point this way and then I'm gonna link it to this other maneuver, right? Versus, oh, I did something cool.

I don't know what to do now.

Let's see where the bu- [laughs] where the plane wants to go.

Exactly.

Uh, that's a big difference.

Yeah.