From other areas of the sport?

[jaxcoffee]

I have been seeing quite a few post about how people from other areas of RC are coming over to crawling. I was just interested in starting this thread to find out just how many there really are.

I find it very interesting and would like to see more reasons as to why this is the case.

Post away!

[John Deere]

Well I use to race on-road electric touring cars. I now only mess around with the crawlers. I raced a few years and decided I wanted to go slow for a while. I am thinking about racing the kyosho mini Zs though. They are alot of fun. I raced a little nitro, but not much.

[rockwerks]

raced 1/10th modified sprint car for many years, and stadium trucks before you could buy one. Parts sat on the shelf for 8 years untill doubledub introduced me to RC crawling.........now IM hooked big time

[D-ran83]

raced my nitro rusty for a while. Bought a emaxx and loved how big it was and the 4wd got me so many places and from there I was like hey this is cool just what can I get over..

[binaryterror]

RC crawling to me is still a side hobby.

Nitro MT is my main RC expense and fun. Very competitive and I will toot my horn and say I do well.

Also in the winter I run Indoor Electric Stadium Trucks on carpet with jumps. Great fun, mainly the people are nice.

[bigmike07]

i raced nitro monster trucks for about 4yrs, and got tired of see people getting mad about wrecks and what not, so i figured i try something different. so far so good, im hooked!

[chevy42083]

I raced electric stadium trucks a long time ago... still rocking the RC10t that I bought as the newest and greatest thing. It's more of a basher... haven't raced in years. The RC10t gets stuck everywhere not on a track. Got a touring car... much faster, but grew tired of making hot laps around a parking lot.

Building a crawler now for the fun of building, and hopefully I'll enjoy the driving.

[todd1803]

Been doing the RC thing for 20 years now. Spent many years in and out of off road electric racing, a little time with touring cars, and now I focus on carwlers, but lately I've had the urge to put something on the track again. I still have a XXX, XXX-T, RC-10, RC-10T, and a Revo, so I may need to dust one off.

[jaxcoffee]

Originally Posted by todd1803

Been doing the RC thing for 20 years now. Spent many years in and out of off road electric racing, a little time with touring cars, and now I focus on carwlers, but lately I've had the urge to put something on the track again. I still have a XXX, XXX-T, RC-10, RC-10T, and a Revo, so I may need to dust one off.

So do you compete Todd? Or do you just like to crawl? I find it interesting that some say they get bored just crawling things. Do you think the competition of actually running a course overrides that bordum?

Seems that if thats the case local clubs would do the sport some good by having more comps. Any opinions here?

[RCpullerdude]

I'm a puller through and through. I'm starting to get into this whole crawler thing though. I'm contemplating a scale trail/crawl rig. But, pulling will always be at the top of my list.

[Abednego]

technically I got into mud bogging rc's but crawling and boggers have huge things in common. I learnt everything I know about electric rc rigs here. i also have great nitro skill.

[1BadJeepBruiser]

I wouldnt say I left one side of rc to go to the crawling side, although I do really love crawling and probably get to go to more crawling comps then I do any other forms of RC competition.

I have been into RC since I was 9 (now 22) started with a black foot. I currently race in the NRCTPA, I race Clod Busters on Tweaked Racing Team and also do some pulling as well.

When it comes to crawling I am scale guy, not really into supers, I like them to look real.

I probably like to build more then anything though