At the beginning of the video when it started to sparkle at the bottom, I thought you actually brought sparklers to the mountain 😅

Thank you for sharing the ride down the slopes! Awesome!

how high did you get over launch? 1200ft?

Looks like a beautiful day.

You are adorable It was Fun watching you. I can see you are one HAPPY puppy 🐶😊❤

Golden retriever. A man eater if ever there was one.

When I saw the retriever I know you were in immediate danger of being loved to death.

There is a leash law at Fort Funston....

i have never seen the ufo before. Where is it?!

Hello Ichi San , thank you for sharing the Video. Another amazing fly 😊

Stalled left wing tip? Nice idea for a video.

Hey Ichi san great to see you enjoying the skies!

No one wants to be the wind dummy I guess

Great video! 👍 seems you hang very high. if you lower your harness you would have a better roll response

素晴らしい景色、ハングまだまだ現役だね

Take care always Mr.kurita

WHACK 😮

❤❤..気をつけて

Lower your harness by at least 6 or 7 inches.

That place cooks. Flew there in the US nationals back in the 90s

I looked at your videos from last year where you lowered your hang point. It seems to me that you are still hanging too high, this could be that your harness is not set correctly. This may be an illusion due to the camera. When I am flying, my harness is 4 fingers above the base bar. Ask the other pilots who you fly with. Look at Darren Brown here at 5:32 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ-6pJqcrLabg5Y&ab_channel=DarrenBrownExtremeSports

I still think you’re a good pilot

Nice!

Downwind landing....

Maybe add some wind flags to your possible landing sites. And buy some more hang gliders!

You were too slow on landing...

4:40 you started pushing out, it was over after that. Come in with more speed, bleed off excess while in ground effect. It will give you more time to feel the glider and when its time to flare.

Paraphrasing from another rider; careful when riding on beaches because saltwater can really damage the board if not dried off completely.

whack turttle

You walked away. Enough said.

I think possibly part of the problem is your hang height ..I think you lowered your HP by several inches so that should help in giving you a bit better control.. I also try to wait until Im in ground effect before I transition to an upright position.. ( personal preference) Hope this helps

Your offsetting the cg of the glider when you transition hanging from your hang loop to your hands. Don’t. ……Your hands should not be pulling down to bring the glider down. Instead you should be pulling the base tube backward so your body moves forward and loads the nose with your weight. As you approach the ground ease out to round out your approach until there is no tension in the base tube. Only then start moving your hands upwards on the downtubes. Just prior to sliding your hands your glider is burning off energy flying parallel to the ground in ground effect. When you move your hands upwards don’t: let go, lurch your hands in the air upwards and then grab,…..instead you slide your hands up the down tubes. Your hands should go no higher up the down tubes then your ear height before your final flare. If you drop a wing, that means the wing stalled before you were able to flare. At higher elevations the air is thinner so your ground speed will be likely bevfaster then your are use too. Do not by the ground speed but by your glider ability to fly to inform yourself when to flare. Practice these skills on a bunny hill with training glider with big wheels instead of damaging your intermediate/advance wing.

Nice video..and nice flight but if I could offer a tip to lower your hang point it looks to me you are hanging pretty high above your control bar.. lowering your body down closer to the control bar will allow for easier control..

It would be better to see the footage from your rear camera, but from this camera it appears that when you transitioned to the down tubes you popped and held your nose up, entered a slight roll to your right, and never made any compensating inputs. Landing directly into the wind is less important than actively maintaining a balanced wing, and a great way to do that is to commit yourself to always keep your eyes on course especially when a wing gets lifted. If you allow your eyes to be pulled away from the course heading to which you initially committed yourself the inputs you will need to keep the glider balanced will be slower and less accurate.

Crosswind landing.

Your direction must be to the other side..

Swinging your legs forwards like that changes your CG . Cross your legs and let them hang relaxed . Use your hips weight to weight shift / steer

Im no expert however i think if you prepped earlier , you would of had more time to get full control of the glider for landing . I too use to leave things to the last minute till I was taught to get to uprights earlier , nose into wind sooner , this gives more time to iron out little things like wing level , speed , harness slider in upright position etc , by time I was in ground effect , it was just a matter of executing the flare . Anyhoo , glad you're ok , hope no damage was done to you , Or your kite . cheers

Looks like a great long run. How long top to bottom?