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It's not a race, if everyone is flying at the same skill level, the person with the biggest move will be the last in (normally OC, sometimes tail too for random work).
don't really mean to get serious here,
YEs lets get serious. It is never a race. Fly together as a team. Turn stop and grip toegheter. When flying blocks learn to fly with you peice partner. DOnt't try and overpower them (lesson i learned this year) Help them when you can, just don't try to fly them around. Learn to read them, what they are thinking. See ther mistakes adn try tohelp make up for them. As they should be doing the same for you.
Blocks only work well when you fly as a team and a team with in a team.
Dom
rehmwa 2
I think that GQ_jumper was just ribbing Dom with his post.
hi rosa - I know, I was playing along here. Just posted that for some newbies. Don't want them to confuse real advice with our ribbing.
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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants
My last OC kicked our tail flier every chance he got.
Rehmwa had a good point in not confusing people with our hijinks, so I'll put the disclaimer here saying the last sentance is all tomfoolery!!
Some people just seem to have problems putting their grips in the right place when they are outfacing, I don't know if its a lack of comfort or depth perception, or maybe just trying to fly too hard.
And on the lighter side!!
If it instills any confidence in you about my flying ability Dom I've never kicked myself in the head on any of my solo divesand I fly all four slots pretty close at the same time, you should se me do a block 6 solo
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some people just seem to have problems putting their grips in the right place when they are outfacing, I don't know if its a lack of comfort or depth perception, or maybe just trying to fly too hard.
It's about being patient. When facing out you have to know where to put it on em. For example. When building a cat. Whoever is on the head of the cat, can't just turn out right away. They need to see where the center two are setting up and then once they are set then turn out. As the team gets used to each other and can read the next move it gets easier to do it and faster. Last year (2004) nationals. We did train as much.
I was flying OC. I would let IC and Point build the center and once point was looking for grips i then turned out. It is slower to do it that way, but much faster then me turning out real quick and missing, then having to make a second try at it. This year we trained much harder and we could read where things were going to be and it helped OC to really only worry about where I was set up at and use me as his set up instead of waitning for Point to be looking for grips.
Dom
rehmwa 2
Sounds familiar. I'm OC and for outfacing formations for me (cat, adder) I wouldn't worry about point. I'd set up off of the IC, when point closed, I was already there. It only became an issue of him being able to make his move and then 'calmly' taking the the grips in front of him.
Point has it tougher than OC in that area, sometimes he doesn't have a clean base in his field of view (except those guys with the rubber necks). But still the same - Once you trust your center work, the outfacing stuff gets much easier.
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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants
Point has it tougher than OC in that area, sometimes he doesn't have a clean base in his field of view (except those guys with the rubber necks). But still the same - Once you trust your center work, the outfacing stuff gets much easier.
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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants
Are you kidding me. My last OC kicked our tail flier every chance he got. So anytime I flew point with him in the tunnel i would smack him pretty good upside the head to get him back for her.
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