Marc, I'm a new P2 (US) with 57 flights and 2 hrs 36 min of airtime, and about 6 hours of grass field ground handling. I have voraciously consumed pretty much every minute of upper-tier UA-cam content available pertaining to what I've observed as potential deficiencies in my training. There are a number of great creators sharing invaluable tips, however, after binging this phenomenal series to this point, it must be said that these 6 (thus far) videos have the highest signal-to-noise ratio of pretty much any paragliding videos I've come across. Truly top notch content, and as others have commented, the methodical and non-rushed repetition bakes the fine little technical nuggets into my thick head such that they actually stick and are in my brain, ready for recall, in the moment whilst ground handling, etc. without having to think about fiddling around with a phone (which ain't nobody got time for in the field as it is). They are concise, current, calmly- and well-delivered, and inspiring. 10/10 from me, and very much looking forward to what's to come. CHEERS!
O wow what a fab testimonial from you buddy, these make it all worth doing, thank you very much from us both, there a huge effort but after over 30 years in the sport it's nice to give back you know. fly steady!!
Asksteevs, you absolutely nailed what I was thinking. My instructor is really experienced and a good bloke but Marc explains the why and the how. The really important bits, I'm feeling my next trip to Blighty should involve a visit to Shropshire
That was new to me: Flying backwards, applying the breaks and release them to move forward and land. Very good idea! I learned something new today. Many thanks, Marc! 👍🙂
Marc Leavesley is brilliant in the way he shows how things is done correct on a paraglider and he shows a lot of tricks that is extreme valuable. Thank u !
Hello, I want to express my gratitude for your excellent videos. They provided me with valuable assistance. Would it be possible for you to create a video focusing on spot landing?
That video got better and better as it went. Loving again that you show us multiple times and that end with the forward surge was just perfect. Keep em coming.
Thank you.i really apreciate the way you use for explanation of new tricks and i improved my english with à new word(crutch.did you say,no?) You're à good teatcher. Grettings from Bordeaux Mohamed
Thanks for taking the risk out in the winds in order to show us how it's done. I was thinking about the use of the forward surge just before you mentioned it. LoL cheers!
Hi Mark, I do a lot of windy top landings but I don't bring the glider down with the brakes. Basically when you touch down and you raise your hands before you turn around, I grab the C or D lines and pull on them with my full weight as I'm turning. Its kind of one motion. The glider might come down a litle slower but I can steer in on the Cs and once it is down, it stays down. If it's a gail (35km/h) I will also turn the wing accross the wind and if I still can't keep it in place I will grab the corner closest to me. Since the wing is accross the wind already this is usually quite close to me now. I'd also like to hear your oppinion on flapping, cheers
Morning peter and yes I tried this as well as many other methods many years ago and as long as your quick at finding them I found it worked well, I personally find as I already have the brakes in my hands when landing all I have to do is hit them very hard and run at the wing to do a good job, but it's what works for each pilot heah. Flapping is fantastic and again been doing that for many years "BUT" you have to really be careful of stalling and at the heights we do flapping it's almost a dead cert of braking your back or ass bone so I think this method needs to be bought by a pro for pilots wanting to learn it. For me if I need to get into a real tight spot it's really fab. Happy flying peter.
Just love your way of teaching! Repeating things just enough (for me at least) to get it into the brain where it hopefully stays. Great job. Just finished my initio and took a hang-course as a complement. As a total beginner I pulled the brakes at landing (instinct) and was pulled away quite hard. A stone or a rock in my way when pulled would have cleaned all my teeth out! Stupid? Well, yes, but no one told me not to flare in hard winds. I really think that videos like yours should be mandatory to have as a compliment to the ordinary studying material, it gives more than an instructor or a fat book about aerodynamics ever would give you! Thank You!
Thanks buddy and happy flying, hoping to do a hike and fly tomorrow and xc thrown in and film it all as I have not made one for a few weeks being busy teaching.
Dynamic landing is something i learned to do allready. Never thought of it to help out in hard wind going backwards tho. Thanx for the tip, Quite smart and simpel solution for something that can produce big problems👍😊 Love your video's
That was fantastic...especially the last technique for a slight forward push at the very end in a very windy condition..I have never seen anyone do this. I fly a ridge where the wind can come up very quickly and have been blown slightly backwards before. Thanks so much!
Marc, another thought. How about a video, "So, you wanna fly" where you line folks out on how to prepare for their P2 class? I don't know, maybe mentally physically and intellectually preparing for flight. Great videos my man.
Excellent video. Thanks Marc. Beautiful landings and really well described. I was told to come in on a windy top landing ready on the C risers to kill the wing with Cs as I land (before turning). Have you ever tried this?
I have yes but it’s awkward and falling over is common then a drag so I have stuck to this method for more than 15 years now and it’s very simple and works spot on as you can see.
Cracking info thanks Mark, I really need to perfect this technique. I've been struggling with windy landings since moving down to a 'safe' B wing and I'm discovering that a big stable wing can sometimes be a liability and a pain in the arse (literally sometimes) on windy landings. Tried all the fancy tricks (C's or A's etc) but too often getting a dragging, time to go back to basic old brakes, but will incorporate yours ideas, thanks again.
Hello Marc, I am a P2 level pilot from Turkey, have recently signed up for a P3 course that will begin in the middle of February. I am reading, watching...Some of your videos are so awesome...I was thinking the other day that I am paying X amount of money for the subscription to Fly with Greg, everything is good, but the clarity of your explanations and demonstrations are far far better, yet you don't have a business model similar to that. You deserve to be paid if you can provide materials - It is difficult to create the content, I know. Mine was just a thought. Cheers
Hello and thanks for the message, yes many pilots keep saying the same to me, I would not know where to start and to be honest I am so super busy anyway with my school, I started these for free because paragliding has been so good to me so it’s sort of a give back to the sport.
Mark and Sian would just like to give credit where its due. Excellent Videos and Commentry. On this particular Video High Wind landings. Was wondering if you ever do big ears, as a landing technique. Although I have done this in the past without Incident, I have observed someone years ago landing on big ears then releasing too early resulting in a ferocious drag back.
Hi Jim and thank you 🙏👊 Yes I tried it many years ago and as you said if you time it a tad wrong you cause more problems so I stick to my way 🤣 I do see pilots doing it with mostly bad results and many drags.
If the wind has really picked up, and you have no choice but to top land: If you're being blown back at speed what about deliberately creating a twist so you're facing backwards, so that when you land you can run forwards and stay on your feet? Anyone tried this?
Well I personally do this sometimes but it's rather advanced and I would not show people this on here, It would be very controvertial I think!! When I do it I twist around followed by taking the rear risers to fly down. I would say stick to the safer option landing with your legs bent and the super fast twist hit the brakes super hard and run at the wing. All the very best if you try it, hope you get on with it.
@@leavesleyaviation Thanks Marc. I think maybe I'll keep this in the back of my mind just in case I get into real difficulties. Maybe practice it hanging from a tree just to see what it might be like. Thanks mate
Great video again Mark, thanks. I'd never even thought about applying brake while going backwards! I would have thought it would be very difficult to time it right, as if you do it too early, you'll swing backwards even faster?! Also, what are your thoughts about landing with the C's?
It does take practise of course but as you can see it works real well mate, I have tried all sorts of methods grabbing risers here there and everywhere, But just this method for me works ace and dead simple.Just give it a try mate and see what you think, you do only add the breaks when close to the ground 2-3 foot and do it gentle at first.
Is it not possible to set the wing down in cobra such that the leading edge is down? With the leading edge down there is no risk of the wing coming back up and dragging you.
There are very few selfless pilots who share such great amount of tips in school or in clubs. Your content is amazing for beginners
Marc, I'm a new P2 (US) with 57 flights and 2 hrs 36 min of airtime, and about 6 hours of grass field ground handling. I have voraciously consumed pretty much every minute of upper-tier UA-cam content available pertaining to what I've observed as potential deficiencies in my training. There are a number of great creators sharing invaluable tips, however, after binging this phenomenal series to this point, it must be said that these 6 (thus far) videos have the highest signal-to-noise ratio of pretty much any paragliding videos I've come across. Truly top notch content, and as others have commented, the methodical and non-rushed repetition bakes the fine little technical nuggets into my thick head such that they actually stick and are in my brain, ready for recall, in the moment whilst ground handling, etc. without having to think about fiddling around with a phone (which ain't nobody got time for in the field as it is). They are concise, current, calmly- and well-delivered, and inspiring. 10/10 from me, and very much looking forward to what's to come. CHEERS!
O wow what a fab testimonial from you buddy, these make it all worth doing, thank you very much from us both, there a huge effort but after over 30 years in the sport it's nice to give back you know. fly steady!!
Asksteevs, you absolutely nailed what I was thinking. My instructor is really experienced and a good bloke but Marc explains the why and the how. The really important bits, I'm feeling my next trip to Blighty should involve a visit to Shropshire
Love it.!!! Thank you so much Leavesly. Absolutely super clear on that approach now. Wow. 1xmillion thanks. 🙏🏼
thanks.
That was new to me: Flying backwards, applying the breaks and release them to move forward and land.
Very good idea!
I learned something new today.
Many thanks, Marc! 👍🙂
Marc Leavesley is brilliant in the way he shows how things is done correct on a paraglider and he shows a lot of tricks that is extreme valuable. Thank u !
🙏👍🪂
Thanks, now i finally got it. No one, not even in safety training, explained it that well. Thanks very much
Thank you
As always you awesome 👌👏😎!!! Thanks mate
And this last trick is very useful
thank you again
Wonderful Video！ GREAT！！！ ❤
Hello, I want to express my gratitude for your excellent videos. They provided me with valuable assistance. Would it be possible for you to create a video focusing on spot landing?
I am sure I can do that buddy.👍🪂🙏
Great informative video, absolutely I will use these technics, thank you very much.
That video got better and better as it went. Loving again that you show us multiple times and that end with the forward surge was just perfect. Keep em coming.
Thank you very much, this tue is looking very good so hopefully I can do another one.
Great video
Great info! Thanks for sharing....
Thank you.i really apreciate the way you use for explanation of new tricks and i improved my english with à new word(crutch.did you say,no?)
You're à good teatcher.
Grettings from Bordeaux
Mohamed
Thats great news.
Used this several times on our tiny top landing sites here in Jersey!!! It Works big style!! Cheers bud!!!
That’s great to hear buddy.👍🪂
Great lesson here. Subbed!
Looking forward to your next one.
👊👍🪂
Thanks Mark, I love your videos on these paragliding techniques. Beautifully done (and filmed, Sian)!
Hats off to you both!
Heah John thanks pal that means a lot to us both.
Great content thanks!
Great technique
Awesome
Easy to see and understand
Thanks
Cheers steve hope it helps mate.🪂
Great vid and knowledge 👍🤔
Brilliant tips! Cant wait to try this out, especially braking to back fly then letting off. Genius!!!
But please make sure very gentle on the brakes, be sure not to stall.
@@leavesleyaviation Absolutely!!! Cheers pal!
Очень полезные советы для начинающих пилотов! Отличная техника пилотирования. Спасибо Marc!
Огромное спасибо!!
Thanks Marc, another great video! You break everything down into simple steps so well.
Thanks Marc for yours videos, helpful tips,much appreciated.
thank you.
To see the beauty of our earth from birds-eye perspective is outstanding! Love paragliding Bro!
Thanks for taking the risk out in the winds in order to show us how it's done. I was thinking about the use of the forward surge just before you mentioned it. LoL cheers!
Thanks Marc,yours videos are very helpful and perfectly clear for French men fly safe
Merci beaucoup
excellent
Great info, as always. Sweet hover!
Hi Mark, I do a lot of windy top landings but I don't bring the glider down with the brakes. Basically when you touch down and you raise your hands before you turn around, I grab the C or D lines and pull on them with my full weight as I'm turning. Its kind of one motion. The glider might come down a litle slower but I can steer in on the Cs and once it is down, it stays down. If it's a gail (35km/h) I will also turn the wing accross the wind and if I still can't keep it in place I will grab the corner closest to me. Since the wing is accross the wind already this is usually quite close to me now.
I'd also like to hear your oppinion on flapping, cheers
Morning peter and yes I tried this as well as many other methods many years ago and as long as your quick at finding them I found it worked well, I personally find as I already have the brakes in my hands when landing all I have to do is hit them very hard and run at the wing to do a good job, but it's what works for each pilot heah.
Flapping is fantastic and again been doing that for many years "BUT" you have to really be careful of stalling and at the heights we do flapping it's almost a dead cert of braking your back or ass bone so I think this method needs to be bought by a pro for pilots wanting to learn it. For me if I need to get into a real tight spot it's really fab. Happy flying peter.
@@leavesleyaviation thanks 🙂
Nice!!!! 👏👏👏
Just love your way of teaching! Repeating things just enough (for me at least) to get it into the brain where it hopefully stays. Great job.
Just finished my initio and took a hang-course as a complement. As a total beginner I pulled the brakes at landing (instinct) and was pulled away quite hard. A stone or a rock in my way when pulled would have cleaned all my teeth out! Stupid? Well, yes, but no one told me not to flare in hard winds.
I really think that videos like yours should be mandatory to have as a compliment to the ordinary studying material, it gives more than an instructor or a fat book about aerodynamics ever would give you!
Thank You!
Thanks buddy and happy flying, hoping to do a hike and fly tomorrow and xc thrown in and film it all as I have not made one for a few weeks being busy teaching.
Great vid as always 👍 I've learned a lot from this
Really love that truck at the end Marc! 👌
What truck mate?
@@leavesleyaviation Sorry that is just my poor typing! The trick at the end to use a little brake to then surge forwards. Very cool :)
Great video again, nice one, more helpful tips, very much appreciated.
Great videos really helpful Marc thanks
Dynamic landing is something i learned to do allready. Never thought of it to help out in hard wind going backwards tho. Thanx for the tip, Quite smart and simpel solution for something that can produce big problems👍😊 Love your video's
Thank you for the amazing courses/tips you are sharing. it is really so beneficial for us new pilots.
🙏👍🪂
That was fantastic...especially the last technique for a slight forward push at the very end in a very windy condition..I have never seen anyone do this. I fly a ridge where the wind can come up very quickly and have been blown slightly backwards before. Thanks so much!
Hope it works for you if you try it Lou.🤞🙏👊🪂
@@leavesleyaviation Will definitely work on it BEFORE I may actually need it. Thanks again.
Very informative and so clear, as always, thanks so much Marc.
Marc, another thought. How about a video, "So, you wanna fly" where you line folks out on how to prepare for their P2 class? I don't know, maybe mentally physically and intellectually preparing for flight. Great videos my man.
Sure thing I can do that buddy.👍🪂
Thank you so much!
Excellent video. Thanks Marc. Beautiful landings and really well described. I was told to come in on a windy top landing ready on the C risers to kill the wing with Cs as I land (before turning). Have you ever tried this?
I have yes but it’s awkward and falling over is common then a drag so I have stuck to this method for more than 15 years now and it’s very simple and works spot on as you can see.
Cracking info thanks Mark, I really need to perfect this technique. I've been struggling with windy landings since moving down to a 'safe' B wing and I'm discovering that a big stable wing can sometimes be a liability and a pain in the arse (literally sometimes) on windy landings. Tried all the fancy tricks (C's or A's etc) but too often getting a dragging, time to go back to basic old brakes, but will incorporate yours ideas, thanks again.
I also over the years tried all those and find sticking to this works fantastic, keep me posted how it goes if you try it.🤞🙏🪂
Hello Marc, I am a P2 level pilot from Turkey, have recently signed up for a P3 course that will begin in the middle of February. I am reading, watching...Some of your videos are so awesome...I was thinking the other day that I am paying X amount of money for the subscription to Fly with Greg, everything is good, but the clarity of your explanations and demonstrations are far far better, yet you don't have a business model similar to that. You deserve to be paid if you can provide materials - It is difficult to create the content, I know. Mine was just a thought. Cheers
Hello and thanks for the message, yes many pilots keep saying the same to me, I would not know where to start and to be honest I am so super busy anyway with my school, I started these for free because paragliding has been so good to me so it’s sort of a give back to the sport.
UA-cam has a tip function that you can use to show your support😉
Mark and Sian would just like to give credit where its due. Excellent Videos and Commentry. On this particular Video High Wind landings. Was wondering if you ever do big ears, as a landing technique. Although I have done this in the past without Incident, I have observed someone years ago landing on big ears then releasing too early resulting in a ferocious drag back.
Hi Jim and thank you 🙏👊 Yes I tried it many years ago and as you said if you time it a tad wrong you cause more problems so I stick to my way 🤣 I do see pilots doing it with mostly bad results and many drags.
you make it loo too easy ;-) but many thanks!
@@h.tagmann5978 🙏🪂
If the wind has really picked up, and you have no choice but to top land: If you're being blown back at speed what about deliberately creating a twist so you're facing backwards, so that when you land you can run forwards and stay on your feet? Anyone tried this?
Well I personally do this sometimes but it's rather advanced and I would not show people this on here, It would be very controvertial I think!! When I do it I twist around followed by taking the rear risers to fly down. I would say stick to the safer option landing with your legs bent and the super fast twist hit the brakes super hard and run at the wing. All the very best if you try it, hope you get on with it.
@@leavesleyaviation Thanks Marc. I think maybe I'll keep this in the back of my mind just in case I get into real difficulties. Maybe practice it hanging from a tree just to see what it might be like. Thanks mate
Great video again Mark, thanks.
I'd never even thought about applying brake while going backwards!
I would have thought it would be very difficult to time it right, as if you do it too early, you'll swing backwards even faster?!
Also, what are your thoughts about landing with the C's?
It does take practise of course but as you can see it works real well mate, I have tried all sorts of methods grabbing risers here there and everywhere, But just this method for me works ace and dead simple.Just give it a try mate and see what you think, you do only add the breaks when close to the ground 2-3 foot and do it gentle at first.
I will definitely give it a try. My worry is landing on lumpy ground and stumbling, then going for a drag (again!!).
@@MrAWGlossop The bent knees and keeping low helps with that, all the best with it if you decide to try it.👊🪂
Haha must be bad your the only one around 🙏
It was a gail but dropped enough ish😂
I see you don't get off the harness when approaching ground. Am I wrong?
Yes stand up early always. The harness has no seat board so just a bend of the hips.
Fucking great video ❤
😂
Is it not possible to set the wing down in cobra such that the leading edge is down? With the leading edge down there is no risk of the wing coming back up and dragging you.
People do that sometimes but you can still get dragged even with it facing down, personally I teach what I am good at and know works for me.
how much speed has tht wind
Started at 19kts but dropped to 15 I seem to remember.