Ambitions for 2020

[blouberg 0]

Hi and happy new year!

Have you any target or goal for you flying skills for 2020?

I have struggled with knee flying lately, looking forward to nail that and progress into sit flying.

In 2019 I accumulated apx 10 hours flight time.

Cheers

[dolphinka 4]

Hi blouberg,

Great to hear about your progress! Happy New Year to you too!

Knee flying can be very challenging indeed... I figured the knee flying long after I mastered sit flying:) what other skills are you learning? I like variety, when something doesn’t work I would just leave it for a while, and concentrate on something else. 

My goal is to master head down this year! I am almost ready to fly unassisted:) 

I also have a goal to sort all my videos and post some of them. 

 

 

 

[blouberg 0]

Still working on transitions. Need more get more smooth and fluidlike transitions. They are still pretty rough. 

Agree with you that variations are a good thing, it can be boring to work on details all the time. Need to relax, kick back and enjoy the ride (:

Cheers

[outdoorjen 0]

I will have 12 hrs of tunnel time in a short period this winter. I am not sure what my goal is other than to learn as much as I can. I can do a rudimentary back fly and sit fly in the sky. I would love to be able to knee fly as I think it would be an awesome tool for tandem camera work. Did you guys do knee flying before or after learning sit? Or is it a part of the sit progression?

[dolphinka 4]

I practiced knee flying for few minutes before starting to learn transitions. But real knee flying came way after sit flying. It was relatively easy to learn static knee flying, but took a while to learn to fly on knees around the tunnel. I am still rough on outface carving though, which you do on the knees too. 

[blouberg 0]

I have worked on knee flying before learning to sit. Mainly as a tool in doing smooth transitions.

 

[dolphinka 4]

That’s also great, I was just too eager to learn transitions, they looked more cooler to me than knee flying:)))