Simple Paraglider GROUND HANDLING training demonstration

Join Greg and trainees for a condensed paraglider ground control coaching session on the hill. This video shows the shortcuts to being a ground hero - the key principles to paraglider control and depowering your launch.
For the detailed half-hour demonstration and many more lessons join my academy on flywithgreg.com ... and get elevated!
Video © Greg Hamerton
Music from AUDIIO: EvertZ (The Rhythm Of The Ride), Flavio Morgade (African Forbidden Voices)
Edited by Courtney Dawe
Thanks to my keen trainees for providing great live demonstrations: Marcin, Greg and Courtney, you rock!
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[@samirstreatfield1996]

Terrific advice. Had never thought to pull my C's before bunching my glider. Love your videos.

[@laurikeranen]

Depowering the wing is absolutely the thing Im going to practice next. Thats the thing that i need to master. Thx for tips guru

[@AddictionHappiness]

Playing with wind is the best 🤩

[@crofty_92]

Thanks to you for inspiring me too! First lesson booked in!

[@ooglek]

Excellent, Greg! Thanks for posting! I was always told -- flip the risers over clockwise, turn clockwise. It isn't intuitive but it works! (you can choose to go counterclockwise for both as well, works the same).

[@HermannLoose]

Learned that "extra length of C lines" trick from one of your older videos and it makes a world of difference in how nicely or not the wing bunches up. I still keep forgetting it in practice when I first bunch up to leave a busy landing site and after a few meters of dragging what feels like a mini hot air balloon behind me, I remember. 😁

[@mcbrite]

Ohhhh, the mini hot air balloon, we ALL know that one! Worse if it's windy! ^^

quick tips, full of information. This urge to fight the glider, instead of doing small step forward and depowering it, it is very easy, but counterintuitive (from beginers perspective), so it took me more than few difficult starts and I am still not sure I mastered it :-)

[@susannewilliams]

Brilliant. So simple. Thank you!

[@johnoutside84]

Another excellent instructional video. Thanks Greg!

[@piotrpawelkapusta4192]

Perfectly explained! Great job Greg

[@ALHJ1997]

Awesome video, this would have saved me so much hassle earlier on! More like this please!

[@linolafettatnet]

Great format for the video, very enjoyable! Thank you.

[@mountainflyhigh]

Been flying 20+ years, the world over. Still amazed how many pilots, including high-level comp pilots, that pull their wing up in stronger conditions with absolutely no pre-planned idea on how to kill it if things go pear-shaped. Brakes are never enough, you need to have a kill method in place, appropriate for your wing design, BEFORE you inflate. You shouldn't be allowed a P2 without demonstrating this skill in actual windy conditions.

[@markhuman]

Great tips Greg! You are legend

[@marcusbaca634]

Greg - you are the best. Always very excellent instruction. I've learned SO much from your great videos.

[@jumpleadsx2]

Whoah - now i want to go out and do some groundhandling !!! Great video!

[@raoulduke1914]

useful tips, especially for tight takeoffs like Sir Lowrys Pass

[@ElsmoreHomes]

Thanks for sharing this! 😀👍🏻

[@keenanhursh1118]

Thank you!!

[@tarpnpoles]

Really awesome tips, thanks!

[@darioguarracino8961]

great. one of your best video teaching

[@pauledwards3325]

I am going to look for the ground work videos for powering my launch . I have a lot of work to do and your help is where its at. The first time I leave the ground and return smoothly I will be a happy CAT . Even if it is for 120ft. Then I think I will be ready for the tow line .

[@AdiAsaf]

Even the initial advice re the brakes position is priceless. There is no need to have this mass of A risers & C risers bundled in each hand...Simply pull them up your wrist..you'll have plenty of time reaching for them once the glider is up..that's the easy part

[@Dvybz]

The problem is the right timing and the right amount of power when you pull the A lines. It is a very fine game between pulling the A lines, moving towards the wing as it lifts of the ground and the right amount of pull on the C lines. After years of flying still trying to get better at it.

[@MrKbtor2]

Greg, a groundhandling Ninja!

[@SanctionNormac]

I didn't like this video - I LOVED it! Cheers Greg

[@turkeyphant]

Any tips for keeping a high aspect glider pinned to the ground? The centre of mine flaps up in a horseshoe when trying to keep it down with rear risers

[@crofty_92]

Booked in for my first lesson! Thanks for inspiring me!

[@gabsisbabsis540]

How is it going now?

[@jirisilhan3094]

Good video

[@turkeyphant]

When did you run this course and are you doing any more?

[@Parakitedude]

Can you kill the wing using the c-lines on a 2.5 liner wing?

[@TheGrundigg]

Really cool video! I need to find a nice ridge/ slope for GH and some low flying practice. Living near good flying sites like Annecy is great but I have never soared a safe grassy ridge before but I have thermalled 1.5km above takeoff... Wrong order! :D

[@HermannLoose]

I would challenge the idea that soaring is safer than thermal flying.

[@itsalifestyle496]

Hey Greg this is Eric I was wondering how should the wind fall whenever you're done ground handling if you're not touching anything when it's up in the air cuz I got a brand new wing and it's wanting to collapse in the middle shouldn't fall on the shouldn't fall like on the left wing tip and I'm talking about whenever it's in are and you don't touch nothing and it's floating and then it stops it shouldn't collapse in the middle should it if you can get back with me and let me know I would really appreciate it

[@bgparis100]

Great video, are the wings your using smaller? Or are they full size 11-12 metres?

[@TobyGunhazzard]

👍

[@Sahabat_Cukur]

Where to buy a parachute like that, if it were sold in my country it would be selling well.. greetings to all of you from Indonesia.

[@styx85]

I believe that's a WallendAir Play ground handling wing. There are more widely available alternatives like the BGD Seed, for example.

[@nathandrake5127]

Hello Greg , Please can you translate yours vidéos in french? Thank you

[@user-iv4kn4it8l]

Watch from Pakistan hunza

[@AdiAsaf]

Excellent deno to say the least. All the essential tips that that the crapy instructors dont emphasis

[@wardified8566]

Have you heard the good news of Greg, are paragliding Lord and Savior?

[@wardified8566]

In all seriousness, these videos are informative and so much more for me. Makes me wonder, how much pain must a man suffer to have your compassion.