Amazing as this is, it's even more impressive watching a strong thrower launching a nice ship in person.
My big DLG isn't really that competitive, and I can throw it over 110' (34m) on a good day . . . but a few months back I got a chance to fly in a group with a pilot throwing an Evo 3.1 who knew what he was doing. He was easily topping my launches by three times -- consistently -- and because of that, he was launching into air that I had to earn my way into.
. . . that, and I've thrown my whipit hard enough to crack the wing from the launch. Don't want to know what one of his full strength launches would do to a whipit
Practice makes a big difference. An good airframe even more.
BTW, to add one more cool edge to an already cool sport . . . once you get the extra altitude to have time to fly and the speed envelope to go from zero-to-sixty and back to a crawl again in an instant, suddenly the "quick turnaround" from one flight to the next becomes possible:
