US Hawks Hang Gliding Association

OK Campers here is an safety advisory for You. Word has it that there might very well might be a very bad, Reckless, un-Safe Pilot flying His; Get this. He will be attempting to Fly a Condor, launching from Dockweiler Beach. Take some good advice, If You were indeed contemplating Flying in the Skys above Dockweiler Beach on Sunday May 22nd. Do not Fly that Sunday. This Pilot; Who is now known as the: {Phoenix Guy in the Sky} is a mence. He should not be allowed to fly.

"The Phoenix Guy in The Sky",... Not yet.

Don't waste the "Yet".



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[GRAITFULNESS]

Man I telling You this Guys: I just now got off the Floor attempting to do a proper, Back straight, off my Toes. But hell as I am now I am not Proper. I fail to do a Proper Push-up. But I see it this way; I fail forward. I see my Physical situation like this: Yes I am a Physical bucket of Bolts, no doubt. But I at least have a chance to recover. That I am so grateful for. for

Practice push ups gradually. Stand in an open doorway with your feet twelve inches back from the door frame. As things get easier move your feet farther away.
Edit: place your hands on either side of the door frame at shoulder height.
Edit again: Could someone describe that better for me? I’m having trouble.

You know here I am a Pilot who really felt that Whacking, Your finale act of a Flight was a Mortal Sin. I really felt that way. So what did I do? i Pounded so severally that it almost took My Life.

RAMIFICATIONS OF MY HAVING POUNDED.

I spent Three Months in a Coma. I mean really: Here is how You Know when You have been in the Hospital too long. Your Mail begins being forwarded to You at Your Local Hospital.

But things could have been worse. I am more and more, I am getting back to feeling normal. Granted My; Normal, is everyone else's Ab-Normal. But to Me it is My Norma, always has been.

Here is some nice easy stuff to do, and you should, to get your body more inline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-89-dJGGFU

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I feel that anyone who has their "bell rung", should pay attention to their balance. The six tinny bones in the inner ears are so fragile, that it doesn't much to disrupt the balance of a person, but most times goes undiagnosed.
Any time you can do "crossing" exercises and cross crunches, will help keep things aligned, and as far as being a, "bucket of bolts" well, God created the bucket that our bolts are in, so ....

Stand up straight, keep your chin up and say, "how are you going to act"?



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POSTURE, bOLTS, bUCKETS, MY ONGOING, RECOVERY, LANDING BUCKET:


Craig, thanks for the link. Heck I will take all the ways that I can so as to aide my Self Improvement Quest.

You know the Word Bucket triggered an Memory that I have from when i was talking to John the other day oh, maybe a Month or so ago. Craig I going to assume that You know nothing of My History of Flying a HG. But rest assured I was quite a good Pilot. Especially when it came to landing. Here are some things that John said to Me, and wrote and posted. He posted this. "Chris McKeon see's LZ's where other PIlots do not". John AND MINE TALK VIA THE PHONE": I asked John; "Have You ever seen a Pilot whom could land as well as I landed?" John replied to My Query by saying: Maybe? He John replied by saying; Steve Noyes. Steve would get towed up again and again by His father Bill who dove the boat that He used to Tow Steve up again and again. Steve would land on the Beach where He would stick one of His Feet into the Bucket upon landing. I think that is some pretty accurate landings! So at least even if John did not just Flat out say that I was the Best Lander that He had seen. I feel at least I am held in Good Company regarding that John thinks that I am comparable to Steve Moyes.

But that Was then, and this is now. I am in the process of rebuilding My Brain, and My Body. Flying has been in the end, My last Flight. Flying has been a very humbling indevor.

So here I am 12 Years after My Last Flight. Tomorrow i will be heading to the Post Office to Mail the Release, sio that I will be able to Fly Down at Dockweiler Beach. I am going to Bring a Bucket along with My Harness. I wonder if Bob will be willing to drive down to Torrey Pines, and place the Bucket. So that I will have a Place to put My "Left foot" in when I land that Condor, Yea Baby!

Really though, I know that I have been typing Trash. But really if a Pilot could land with one of His feet in a Bucket upon landing. If the Pilot could consistently say before launch which foot. Either the Left or Their right Foot would be the Foot that would be standing in the Bucket, Then that would be a"GOOD LANDING". Now that would be a Good Pilot.

Somewhere at the Hawks website Bob posted a picture of my friend, Don Ray, about to land in a laundry basket.
We sometimes would put a Hula Hoop on the beach as a landing target.
Being reminded of something when the word bucket came up in conversation reminded me to post something to you. Back in the late 60’s I spent 50 cents on a 5-1/2” X 4” booklet:
INSTANT MEMORY by Robert Harbin. ( Now around $15.00)
Here is a synopsis. Memory by association. Create a base list first:
1) Bun, 2) Shoe, 3) Tree, 4) Door, 5) Hive, 6) Sticks, 7) Heaven, 8) Plate, 9) Vine, 10) Den.
Picture each word and memorize each number and word by heart.
To remember a new list associate the new word with your (forever) base list word.
Don’t use logic but only humor or ridiculousness to associate the new word with the base word.
Like: car is the first new word. That would be; 1) is a bun there are four buns on a car in place of the
Wheels and tires.
Second word is banana. 2) is your shoe but when you step into it someone had put a banana in there and you
squished it and now your sock is all yucky.
Third new word is hang glider. So -
3) Tree that has new buds that blossom into full sized hang gliders. Pluck the one you want and go fly.
Fourth new word is transmission. So -
4) Door (a half opened door) and someone balanced a 4 speed transmission on the top of the door. When you
opened the door the rest of the way it fell and clobbered you.
AND SO ON -

Did you ever find that mechanical type writer you wanted? Keeping your fingers busy with pencil and paper and typing, help keep the brain cells making new pathways.
Here is something to keep your fingers and hands busy;
Get, or make some "Juggling Bags", sit down in front of a wall, start practicing with one bag, then two, and before you know it, three. Check out youtube. Tape a small spot on the wall at eye level, and look at this spot while your hands learn how throw and catch the bags. Your peripheral vision is key, and it becomes muscle memory, just like on your guitar.
You can use them as "squeeze" bags, or "stress" bags also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWvMyg2duFA


Enjoy.

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Here's something to strengthen your left hand.

Rick Beato.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VJWOg42RzdE




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