Paragliding & Reverse Inflation Tips

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Welcome to expertvillage.com. My name is Patrick Eaves. In this clip, we're going to be talking about reverse inflation using just your A's. You're going to start out, now you're hooked into the glider. You've checked that you're hooked in right, and we're going to go ahead and get the brakes in our hands to start this process. So to get your breaks in your hands, what you're going to do is start out with your left hand, go to your left carabiner and follow your palm along your rear riser, your D riser, to your brake and pull the brake out. Once you have the brake in your hand, don't let it go because you don't want it to get twisted up. With your other hand, your right hand, go to your right carabiner. Follow your palm along the D riser making sure there's no twists as you go and grab the brake off again. Don't let it go. Now your brakes are in the right hand. You're going to cross your risers into an X. Once you do that, you should have no twists and make sure that your A's are on top and go straight to the wing. Then you're going to grab one A in each hand. Your left hand's going to grab the A that goes to the left side of the wing that you're facing, the right hand going to the right side of the wing. Now you're ready to bring the wing up using just As. Your As are like your gas, so you're going to try to bring them up symmetrically, but if one side is coming up quicker than the other, let As off on the side that's coming up to quick. And the side that's coming up too slowly, you're going to pull a little extra A. You're going to do this until the wing comes up evenly over your head. Once it's up over your head, you're going to let go of your risers and go into brake control. To bring the wing back down, you're going pull your brakes back. That's going to bring the wing down. The power to bring the wing up is going to come through your hips and come through your risers. You're going to be pulling on your As and you're going to be pushing back at the same time with your hips to get the wing to come up. Here it is again. Remember he's leaning back with his hips. He's pulling his As. As soon as he gets the wing up over his head, it's stable. Go ahead and pull his brakes to pull it back down. That's reverse inflation using both As.

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