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Supreme Being
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Last Login: 19/04/2007 11:40:32
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| cloudfall (13/02/2006)
I see a lot of new tunnel flyers .. flying very flat indeed and, who are therefore fairly unstable and come out the tunnel each time wondering why they haven't made better progress. I sometimes wonder whether if more attention was paid in training newbies outside the tunnel about the importance of arching whether they would find their time in the tunnel a whole lot more rewarding.
Most if not all tunnels I have been to only give a minutes worth of training on "arching" and even then don't go in to anywhere enough detail as to why this is so important. I reckon that if most of the briefing session was "laid down" with people arching most of the time that people would fly and progress better. A lot of this stuff is muscle memory, the more you do something the better.
I agree w. the arching but you have to look at laying on the floor in an arch from a tourists & newbie perspective. They are already pretty uncomfortable or nervous, why would we want to drill them and take even more fun out of it? They are mostly there for the experience of flight and enjoying themselves. It's not skydiving, arching isn't going to save their life; make it easier yes but at lower windspeeds (given if you don't have a good bodyposition or are learning) bodyposition can be more forviging, creating a fun activity that doesn't require tons of training. There is also only one instructor and to have him watch and mold/shape a whole room of students would be tough. Flyers might spend more time in a wrong bodypostion waiting to be shaped into the right one. The reasons we bring up are the best argument for paying a coach whenever you can. You get a great breifing (or should, if not demand one it's your $ and tunnel time after all), fantastic in tunnel instruction, and you won't develop bad habits from the get go. Fly less and spend the $ on a coach, your flying will progress much faster. I wish I had done that at several points in my progression. Learn from my mistakes.
~*~Spread Your Love & Fly~*~
Paige Rudolph |
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