How I finally understood constant air roll — Transcript

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1. 0:01Hello everyone, hope you're having a good day. I had watched countless videos from other
2. 0:06creators, who tried to teach  how to constant air roll.
3. 0:08Oftentimes, these videos simply provided direct  instructions of how to push your joystick
4. 0:13to turn your car left or right in the  air, as long as you started the motion
5. 0:16when the hood of your car was facing you. Now, while these videos did accomplish their
6. 0:20goal of teaching this very specific  motion, they fell completely short of
7. 0:24helping me understand how to constant air roll. So this video will explain what I had to do to
8. 0:29make it finally click for me. And hopefully, for  some of you watching, it will click as well.
9. 0:36To preface, I use air roll right, though that  won't matter for the lessons and exercises I
10. 0:41will be sharing. As you can see I am using  a playstation controller, you can see that
11. 0:46in the bottom left (PS5 to be precise), and  have jump bound to X, boost bound to Square,
12. 0:51and air roll right bound to my right bumper. Here we are, in freeplay. The first,
13. 0:58and most important, thing I did that actually  meant something to me, was to jump into the air
14. 1:03while spinning, and seeing what happens when I  push UP. So let's try that. I'm going to jump
15. 1:09into the air, and every time the hood of my car  is facing me, I'm going to push my joystick UP.
16. 1:24Ok, so we can see that my car started tilting  forwards. Now, this is the most natural scenario,
17. 1:30which I'm sure all of you watching come  across in every game you play. You're just
18. 1:33tilting your car forward, as you would  for most standard aerial hits. But next,
19. 1:38let's try pushing up when the  bottom of the car is facing me.
20. 1:49You can see that it more-or-less  tilts towards the camera.
21. 1:53Now let's try when the car  is facing to the left.
22. 2:00You can see that it tilts to the left.
23. 2:02And now let's try right, and we should  see the car tilt to the right.
24. 2:10If you haven't realized it yet, the direction I  am pushing my joystick influences the direction
25. 2:15that the nose of my car tilts. This is the  key to it all, or at least it was for me.
26. 2:22Practice this! Just hop into free  play, jump and start spinning,
27. 2:26and try pushing up on the joystick as  you do. Just tap it, don't hold it down.
28. 2:32To get a feel for this motion, an exercise you  can try is to fly up high near the ceiling,
29. 2:37then spin and try to keep yourself flying just by  tapping UP at the correct times. Watch me here.
30. 2:45Now, I'm doing my best just to press up, but you  might notice some slight deviations because as
31. 2:50I've practice, air rolling has started to become  muscle memory, so I almost can't just push in one
32. 2:55direction. And you can get there too, but for now,  just practice this exercise. Once you can keep
33. 3:01yourself in the air for a reasonable amount  of time, we can move on to the next step.
34. 3:10Hopefully, the first step has started  shaping your mental model of what you
35. 3:14need to do while rolling through the  air. So what's the next step? The next
36. 3:17step is to apply what you've learned, to  _prove_ that even such a simple exercise
37. 3:22is enough to get you started with controlling your  car while constantly air rolling. To test this,
38. 3:28we're going to use just pressing UP to get  through a level in Lethamyr's rings map.
39. 3:39Hey, it wasn't pretty, but  we made it through the level.
40. 3:43And that means the foundation  we've built has merit.
41. 3:48So we've figured out how to use UP. What's next?  Well, it's time to learn about the different
42. 3:54directions you can press on the joystick. We won't  go through every possible rotation of the car,
43. 3:59but I will do my best to get you started  in understanding the fundamentals.
44. 4:04Jump up into the air and start spinning. We're  going to take a look at how to influence the
45. 4:07direction of the car with left, right, and  down. These motions are often referred to as
46. 4:12"adjustments". However, we're only going  to be pressing these directions when the
47. 4:17hood of the car is facing us. And as you can see, we can make
48. 4:21the car tilt left and right, and lean back very  easily. Combine multiple of these motions over
49. 4:27the course of many rotations of your car,  and you can start to change directions.
50. 4:32And that's it! Assuming you've performed the  exercises I detailed and hoping that they
51. 4:38worked for you, you can constant air roll. Of course, as you could probably tell while
52. 4:42watching the video, I'm no master at constant  air roll. I am very much still working my way up,
53. 4:47but I hope something in this video helped you.
54. 4:50Now, what can you do next, after you've  mastered everything this video shows? Well,
55. 4:54what I would recommend is instead of adjusting  your car's direction only when the hood is facing
56. 4:58you, to only make adjustments when the bottom  of the car is facing you. And then the left,
57. 5:04the right side, and as you do so, you'll notice  your adjustments become more and more fluid.
58. 5:10Finally, there's some extra  hints I'd like to share.
59. 5:141. Feather boost - You must have noticed while  watching the video, but I am only tapping boost.
60. 5:20There is no direct pattern of when I am tapping,  it's mostly just to keep me from spinning out.
61. 5:24Occasionally you'll see me hold  boost, but it's only when I need
62. 5:27to attempt to fix a previous error. 2. Workshop maps - Rings maps are the
63. 5:34best way to practice, so I will link the  ones I showed below. If you're on console,
64. 5:39the only alternative I can give is to pick  spots on the wall in freeplay and fly to them,
65. 5:46make sure to have your car facing at least 90  degrees off of the direct line path to them.
66. 5:513. This takes time - It took me weeks of on-off  training to get to where I am, and I'm not that
67. 5:59good. It took me even longer to first get to  the "click" that this video is sharing.
68. 6:07I hope you've enjoyed this video.  Please leave a like if it helped,
69. 6:11a comment about how it did or didn't, and  subscribe if you're so inclined. Have a nice day.