- [Carlo] I'm just getting myself ready to launch,
and, it's a bit of breeze.
It's not, kind of moderate breeze, to be honest.
So now I've got myself ready.
I got my glider ready and a bit of a dip in the terrain.
I could have more time to sort my stuff out
and off to the side from the main launch area.
And now what I'm gonna do is just,
I've checked all my lines,
while the glider was laid out like that.
And since it's a little bit breezy,
I'm gonna bring the glider out from the side
and bring it up, try and bring it up from the side.
So, sort of a little bit like a Cobra launch,
but not quite just bringing it round
the edge of the kiting window.
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- [Carlo] So what I do, first of all, just getting my A's.
And the glider is actually, because it's in the dip,
isn't catching the wind quite so.
Now what I'm doing is just
gradually inflating the wing.
And what I'm doing is just gently pulling on my A's
and my brakes, just so I'm letting the glider inflate,
so I can see all the lines and check everything clear.
So now I'm 100 percent sure
there's no knots or tangles
and
my glider's set up sideways to the wind at the moment.
And in a moment I'm gonna launch.
Now I've got my risers set up so that
the top riser is in my left riser
which means I'm turning up, up the hill.
You can see there quite clearly on the glider
and you can see on the glider how one side
of the glider's inflated and not the other.
So you can, the wind is clearly coming from the side.
Okay.
So without further ado,
just inflate my glider a bit better.
There you go.
Checking my airspace, let the glider come up.
And I step up the hill towards the glider.
And now it's very, very easy
For me to turn to wind
and launch. The glider almost did all the work for me.
Effortless where lots of others have been struggling
on launch and falling about.
By setting myself up correctly in the first place,
basically the glider,
the wind and the glider did a lot of the work for me
and the main thing I really needed to do,
especially with this wing, which launches so easily.
Was just to step under the wing at the right pace.
Not too fast, not too slow.
So that I'm keeping the right pace
just to keep tension on the lines.
Not too much, so that the glider had too much tension,
the glider would then whip up and come up too fast
and possibly pluck me off my feet
or just have a lot of momentum
and overfly me and maybe collapse.
So I just stepped towards the ring at the right pace.
So the glider came up at the right speed.
So I'm monitoring that
as the glider comes up, I'm adjusting my speed.
Then I'm moving towards the glider to match it.
Yeah, so if the glider had come up faster
I would've stepped quicker towards it.
And that would take out some of the speed and energy.
See our videos about that.
If the glider had come up more slowly
then I would've held a bit more tension on the wing
and to help it come up a little quicker
so it didn't hang back too long.
The glider had kind of slowed
and looked like it was gonna pause
which is not likely with this particular glider.
Then, then I might have grabbed the risers
used the risers to bring the glider up a bit more.
But on that launch, if you could hopefully see it
I really didn't need to do that.
That's the key.
If you set your glider up correctly for the wind
and prepare nicely.
Have your risers the right way
for your turn direction,
Then, you're gonna,
it's gonna be much easier, the launch.
If you've got yourself set up incorrectly,
the glider in the wrong position, the wind wrong
your risers turning the wrong way.
Then it's gonna be like a fight against the glider
and the wind.
Rather than working with them.
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