gary hume doing a zero wind tight field landing fast but goo

[gary stenhouse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jph_ivpfBpI

this was from the lakes on monday

[ron freeman]

Strange approach which left a very low turn back into wind, hands above the head on the uprights ? this leaves you with poor roll control when you need it most ! Needs to flare more because the wind is light but can't because the hand are to high on the uprights...hands should be about chest level which vastly improves your ability to rotate your weight to the tail of the glider plus this allows you to maintain roll control, very important !

Gary is a bloody good pilot and I know these gliders can glide on a bit Iv'e flown them and they are very good but the basic landing techniquies will never change.

Good flares saves a hell of a lot of running... because normally your ankles have stiffened up after a good flight and I like to give them a good wiggle before landing.

At one league comp I pulled a calf muscle doing this type of landing and it stuffed up my weekend ! so I learned the hard way