The latest Tears of the Kingdom update removed a really handy trick, but that hasn't stopped players from discovering new, more surreal ones. This time, the trick involves using the motor system of a specific shrine to affect the game's movement physics, ultimately allowing you to shoot Link straight into the sky without breaking a sweat.To get the underlying logic behind this new trick, we first need to observe Reddit user Paradox_Guardian's experiment with the electric motors found only in the Gemimik Shrine (alternatively called Turbine Power shrine). By taking these motors, gluing them to one of their items, and storing them in the auto-build library, the user was able to reproduce the motors any time for the mere cost of 6 Zonaite (a crucial building resource in the game), and then use them to the achieve the desired propulsion power needed to kick Link into the horizon.Once they've attached a simple wooden plank to the motor, the plate began spinning at an insane velocity (measured by the user to be more than 100 radians or 300 meters per second). And then, when they allowed Link to step on that spinning platform (as shown in the user's other video), he was immediately thrown into the sky. The glitch also doesn't seem to be tied to this specific device, as the user demonstrated a week ago how it can happen with just a regular Zonai fan and a plank.Surprisingly, and even without a fan, the trick could still work. There's a video where the user simply tied some Zonaite stones to a plank (causing it to wobble slightly) and cast Rewind on it. The game apparently had trouble registering the number of frames before and after the plank was rewound, so it assumed the plank has probably moved an infinite number of times or frames, and thus, pushed Link with such a calculated force.
But that's probably a simplistic explanation, and a more in-depth one about the degree of rotation and the nature of the terrain and all the subtle factors that affected the force of ejection can be found here, also courtesy of Paradox_Guardian. They also decided to call the technique "Tangent Launch", so Tangent Launch it is. As a Tears of the Kingdom pioneer, they have earned the right to call it whatever they see fit.
All in all, having an extra vertical push or some self-propelled fans is probably the tip of the iceberg for what 'sky bridges' fans can create in this game, as imZaytri demonstrated on Twitter with her powerful hybrid helicopter. This contraption, which also uses the engines and the propellers from the same Gemimik shrine, can fly endlessly in the air by switching between Zonai and electrical power sources, allowing for a similar feat of reaching the sky islands and doing it in style as well.