Sure! You'll hear the instructor calling it the cravat clean to initiate, because it's the same action as an efficient cravat cleaning - (which is in my deep stall video). There's lots of brake pressure to initiate spin at this speed so you pull the inside brake until your arm is bent and then invert your elbow - so point your elbow at the sky and then punch downwards hard - like you are pushing yourself out of a chair. Once I feel it spin, to keep it spinning, I raise my hand to around carabina height which is my backfly position on this wing. Here I'm trying to exit the spin into a helico so I keep slowly raising my inside hand. The safest exit though (from a developed spin) is to exit in backfly where you slowly lower your outside hand until you stop turning. If you lower your outside hand too fast, you can get twisted up as the wing stops spinning abruptly but your body keeps turning. Great fun! You can hear Malin talk about the cravat cleaning and many other techniques on the XC magazine website in their Masterclasses section. There are 2 videos with Malin - they are really good. Thanks for stopping by, I'll make some videos of flying in Scotland next year - I'm going to get one of those action cameras.
Just to add, contrast how much force is needed to get it to spin from almost trim speed to how easy it is at stall speed. In the 'Playing in the Sh1t zone video', you can see it's very difficult to keep the glider from spinning. Any tiny amount of asymmetry in the brakes or weight shift will have it doing helico in no time, and my hands are almost up to the pulleys.
@@NelsonsWings It is one of the most disorienting feelings in paragliding, but I'm slowly getting used to it. I'm working on learning how to heli but it's important to get used to spin anyway. I'll be taking my freestyle wing to SIV next year, it's quite difficult to learn it on an XC wing, they go off axis more easily and grab the air to re-fly. The Octane2 is more stable - it's built to heli.
Can you please describe in more detail what you do to initiate that spin?
Sure! You'll hear the instructor calling it the cravat clean to initiate, because it's the same action as an efficient cravat cleaning - (which is in my deep stall video). There's lots of brake pressure to initiate spin at this speed so you pull the inside brake until your arm is bent and then invert your elbow - so point your elbow at the sky and then punch downwards hard - like you are pushing yourself out of a chair. Once I feel it spin, to keep it spinning, I raise my hand to around carabina height which is my backfly position on this wing. Here I'm trying to exit the spin into a helico so I keep slowly raising my inside hand.
The safest exit though (from a developed spin) is to exit in backfly where you slowly lower your outside hand until you stop turning. If you lower your outside hand too fast, you can get twisted up as the wing stops spinning abruptly but your body keeps turning.
Great fun! You can hear Malin talk about the cravat cleaning and many other techniques on the XC magazine website in their Masterclasses section. There are 2 videos with Malin - they are really good. Thanks for stopping by, I'll make some videos of flying in Scotland next year - I'm going to get one of those action cameras.
Just to add, contrast how much force is needed to get it to spin from almost trim speed to how easy it is at stall speed. In the 'Playing in the Sh1t zone video', you can see it's very difficult to keep the glider from spinning. Any tiny amount of asymmetry in the brakes or weight shift will have it doing helico in no time, and my hands are almost up to the pulleys.
@@7up-weee Thanks!
Great fun for you, it would be terrifyingly disorienting for me ...
@@NelsonsWings It is one of the most disorienting feelings in paragliding, but I'm slowly getting used to it. I'm working on learning how to heli but it's important to get used to spin anyway. I'll be taking my freestyle wing to SIV next year, it's quite difficult to learn it on an XC wing, they go off axis more easily and grab the air to re-fly. The Octane2 is more stable - it's built to heli.