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Last season two of my passions intersected, flying drones and flying kites. I love power kites and i've been flying them for over 10 years now, however drones are a recent passion in the last 3 years that i've picked up and started to enjoy. I used to call them multi-rotors, but the mainstream public's declaration of calling them drones has now washed off on me. During our Kingston trip I finally had the opportunity to really intersect the two passions, and this year i'm hoping to take things a little further with my video production. To start with i've purchased some Joby Gorillapods, and these things are really versatile. I was planning to review them, however I dislike unboxing reviews as they really don't prove much going down the path in terms of use for a product like a gorillapod. So i'll come back to reviewing them after i've had the opportunity to really use them. Initial thoughts however is that the large Gorillapod SLR-Zoom is a tank, it's solid. The Gorilapod magnetic, feels a bit like a fragile toy. The Joby ballhead feels solid, I would of liked a secondary type of safety on it in case it releases, however I'll just wrap the neckstrap around the legs for now. Something else I picked up was the Pico Dolly, now this thing for product video etc is amazing. It's also incredibly amazing as a slider cam when you can't be bothered hauling a full 1.5M slider and setting it up on two tripods. All you need is a smooth surface, a walking path, a car bonnet, hard packed sand, anything that you can smoothly roll the wheels over and produce a cinematic sliding effect. So the collection from last season has grown a bit, and here it is below. I'm considering a DJI Osmo Mobile to use with the iPhone7 Plus, and a couple of additional SJCam's to mount on to people at the Extreme Kites meets. PS: If you didn't see my video from last year here it is, I've refined a lot of techniques and learnt some new angles and ideas since then I hope to be able to reproduce in the next event video. Thanks for reading, hit that like button if you enjoyed this blog entry so I know to add more! Comment below if you think you would like me to create a couple of tutorials the gear, settings and how i use it for different results.