a world class champion on landing

[jcflies]

i'm sharing the following to demonstrate how much thought a world class pilot puts into landing. DOH, maybe that's how he got to be so good???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dDVtKkLbkY

(video by glen, from N. Cal.)
note the voice on the vid calling out, "Excellent!" and then read what mitch had to say below about his own landing. mind you, he was using a defective ROTOR harness, made for someone else. (I wonder why WILLS WING doesn't give him a custom made harness? Glider too, for that matter, you know? (If WW gliders can withstand what he's put them through for 20 years, imagine how they'll fly for a "normal" recreational pilot! You can't beat THAT advertising!)

Mitch:
"you can see a landing pulled from the jaws of death, the hesitation, and head turn, to find the upright that's out of reach, out of sight, the strong tug to get upright at the last moment, rocking up, getting the left hand up, and flaring at the same moment, - swinging feet forward to land....
...it is interesting to note the angle of attack change and rate on that landing, it's about 25-35º very rapidly, and you can kind of make out the flare window, where the glider 'settles' at the end of the ground effect glide...
note feet in the weeds at the edge of the grass...."

it's THIS kind of effort, focus, and analysis we need to apply to every landing.