So is there a site or anything you can point me to that explains how to do this 3d stuff and generally what it is and how it works, etc...?

Team Flying Cirkus is getting back to the instruction 3D University videos. They lost their previous videos but keep checking back for more.

[link=http://www.teamflyingcirkus.com]Team Flying Cirkus[/link]

Sure....www.teamflyingcirkus.com

There are instructional videos on the website to help you learn, and also videos of 3D flying.
We also have the Flying Cirkus crew on RCUniverse in the Flying Cirkus forums.

Here is a link to the videos.
http://www.teamflyingcirkus.com/videos

Enjoy

LOL, we both posted within minutes...oh well

[link=http://www.3drc.info]3drc[/link]

go to the manouvres section, there's descriptions and some short video clips