RC Nightmare Community Blog

We all know we race RC’s or bash RC’s because it is fun and we enjoy it. Just check our some of our RC Bashing Footage and you’ll see how much fun we have. But there are actually other reasons why hobbies like ours are important in our lives. Here are some of the biggies:

Hobbies are often thought of as activities for people who lead quiet, relaxed lives with plenty of time they need to fill. However, people with full, busy, even stressful lives may need hobbies more than the average person, and benefit greatly from having hobbies in their lives. One of the biggest benefits that hobbies provide are a way to relieve stress. If you are stressed out from your job, hobbies like racing RC’s can provide something to look forward to after work and great stress outlet.

Some people who feel overwhelmed or have stressful days at work choose to recover from that by going right to bed or by sitting on the couch. I know when I do this, the thoughts from the day continue to whirl around in my head and I still feel overwhelmed. Studies show people who are in stressful jobs that normally contribute to burnout feel less of a need to ‘recover’ from their day at bedtime if they have more physical or social leisure Read on »»

Opinions In RC Can Be Expensive & Are Often Wrong

There is an old saying, opinions are like buttholes (cleaned up for our younger readers) everyone has one and they all stink. I have been around a lot of opinionated people and those in the Remote Control hobby, whether it’s Electric Trucks & Cars, Nitro, Planes, or whatever, people’s passion borders on what I am used to seeing when people talk about politics. It is important that you, as quickly as possible anyway learn to trust your own gut, and learn to cut through the opinions to get to the facts. Let me give you an example from when I was first starting out which wasn’t that long ago. Read on »»

It seems like everyone is talking about the new Traxxas release of the Monster Jam series and hardly any of it is good.  A brief look around the forums these days and they are filled with flat out Traxxas hate.  Now I haven’t been in the game long enough to really get too mad about all the Traxxas re-releases.  Just so you know I am no Traxxas “fan boy”, and certainly no Traxxas hater my garage carries everything including Traxxas, Axial, Team Associated, Losi, and much more. Read on »»

WOW!

We have grown so much over the past three months, our forum has exploded, our blog is one of the top read RC blogs on the net, and we just uploaded our 100th video to youtube!  In honor of the number 100, we are going to be giving away free RC Nightmare T-shirts to anyone who reaches 100 posts in our forum.  This is intended to thank our loyal forum posters.  In addition we will be rolling out a new promotion for 500!  I think it will be Hoodies, well you let me know what you want loyal members of RC Nightmare, and remember to keep posting in the forum, get your friends over here because we simply love you more than anyone else.

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