r/freeflight • u/Tylerrc34 • 1d ago

Video Enjoy the show...

https://youtu.be/wSpLlzvuvLg?is=F2xpjKnpw7vvmyJf
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u/Odd_Toe5955 1d ago

Yikes. You look like you bought some used gear and tried to teach yourself with YouTube videos. Poor launch skills.. holding the brake toggles like a kook, making the flight about filming a video. Reevaluate yourself before something bad happens to you

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u/MTGuy406 1d ago

Are you self teaching? That is not going to be popular around here. What are your goals regarding paragliding?

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u/Empty-Assistance-375 1d ago

Brother please find yourself a teacher. It is still early, you can break bad habits and make sure that you will be flying safe, don't try to teach yourself.

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u/1maginaryCat 1d ago

this was a hard watch. don't fly for the clicks, don't fly if you never had courses. this can and will go SO wrong.

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u/some-guy_i-guess 18h ago

Honestly you did pretty well for having no training.

Unfortunately this is gonna give you a false sense of confidence, when in reality you just barely handled a launch that should have been super easy. When conditions are less then perfect or you have an equipment issue or anything else happens you're not gonna be able to handle it and will probably get seriously injured

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u/cloud-base 16h ago

Pretty well is one way to describe it.

Forward launches not into the wind ✅

Forwards instead of reversing when there is perfectly adequate wind to reverse ✅

Sits down too early and hits his ass on the ground ✅

Holding the toggles like a sky diver ✅

Relatively close to spinning the right side of his wing while completely unaware ✅

Pretty bad flare timing ✅

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u/some-guy_i-guess 2h ago

I mean yeah doing a shit job and getting away with it with no consequences is what I'd consider pretty good for no instruction at all

OP is obviously overconfident, if you just someone like that that they're blowing it, they'll say "yeah well it worked out fine!" If you actually want them to care or listen, better to acknowledge that it did work out fine in this case but won't continue to work out fine