Head dwon help --daffy

[exitboy 0]

I can hold a good straddle H-D but find i accelerate during the dive although i am pushing as hard as i can.I need to fly slower so want to crack on with the daffy.
Any tips? Do you think of front knee up into wind with knee bent on back leg or just one leg foward, one back without thinking about the bend in the knee?

[blazingcannon 0]

Both ways you're talking about will work.

with your legs front and back presenting only the knee forward and the back of your calf to the relative wind feels kinda like doing the splits and you can slow down a lot with your hands out to the sides so your body' s looks like an X from underneath (like olav in crosswind) It's comfortable when hangin out, but it's hard to stick your hand out forward to dock when you're flying like that cause when you lose the hand at the side you lose symmetry and you'll probly fall over! : )

The other way where your legs are kind of straighter and pushed out to the sides in kind of a half daffy half Xman, you're presenting the sides of your legs to the relative wind, which gives you lots of surface area to work with when deflecting wind- ie. precise control...(dave brown from the Freefly Training Centre would say this is more "efficient flying", as in using all the wings you've got handy to fly, or flying your whole body.)
This one's great for docks and really stable, though maybe not as comfortable, and at first you might find you have a built in turn, but you'll figure that out I'm sure.

Howabout that! I'm all for flying in whatever style that works for the situation. ie. one time I felt all wobbly on this flocking dive, then I realized it was the big forward-back daffy I had going on that was the cause. ...I did the next one in a more X-man style and the wobble was gone.. : )

Cheers,
G.

"Spread your legs and fly"