You guys have it all backwards. The further the table goes the more timid the fights get as the opponents try harder and harder not to make mistakes. I didnt film the fights.
AAR batfink vs tonyjoey:
P39D:
We had vis at 10.0k and both started a shallow dive to about 6-7k. We both merged with an aim to conserve energy in the usual climbing fashion. Three minutes of abslutely dead equal fighting, we probably merged nose to nose about 15 times and went up quite high. Eventualy i lost possition as Joey began to outfly me in the E fighting routine with great skill ont he flaps and stick. Knowing i was on a losing battle i dived out under him and offered my tail as i prefer that to putting myself into a rope i know i wont survive. TJ attacked with precision but failed to hit me, i reversed over the attack and fried but also failed to hit. Again i was a fish in a barrel and knowing joey i thought i was finished but again i reversed over his attack and avoided being shot, then held the trigger down for a good 3 seconds as he passed just for a very small moment my inverted gunsite. I saw flashes from his nose to tail and he burst into flames. I dived out as hard as i could and TJ asked if he had to bail or what. I typed back that if he can hit me before he dies i'd call it fair. He attacked again in a steep dive 1.5k behind me and rather than win running away from a burning plane i turn back into him at 1.0k. I pulled back past his gunsite as hard as i could and he hit me a good burst before shooting past me and exploding. My pulse was beating twice as fast as i thought was healthy.
SpitV:
Joey merged in with an E conserving loop while i chose a slightly diagonal spiral climb. We crossed a few times head on on the way up with me lower and slightly in persuit though joey had the speed to control me still. At the top we merged again, on the limit of our engine and wing power. I choose to turn flat and potentialy give a shot to joey if he went level and did another higher turn. He did exactly that but I had anticipated, I was ready for it. He came in and fired on me from above. I rolled over and placed myself neatly on his tail at 100 yrds and stuck there, for joey had gone all in for that chance, much as I had. This time he missed and i didnt, next time maybe not. It was all over in not much more than a minute. Joey congratulated me and acted like a true sportsman on defeat. There was nothing between us.
Thats my memory of the fight, hope that is not considered poor taste, though I dont see how it could be any different to posting the films. I tried to be as accurate as possible. Joey correct me, please, im getting older! Maybe joey filmed them.
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