Acrobatics, the manual
Written, photographed and produced by the German team of Gudrun Öchsl, Mike Küng, Alexander Meschuh and Michael Nesler, ‘Acrobatics’ is a 156-page visual extravaganza that tackles acro instruction head on.
Colourfully designed with inspirational images, Acrobatics gives you clear and concise instructions and takes you step-by-step through each manoeuvre using both written descriptions and motor driven photo sequences.
Starting with the basics like Wingovers and Full Stalls, the book progresses through every conceivable manoeuvre to the most difficult configurations like the MacTwist and Infinite Tumble. Once you’ve mastered those you can move on to the sections on transitions – Helico to SAT, MacTwist to Helico etc.
Theoretically, by the time you’ve finished Acrobatics you should have all the information you need to take the Rodriguez brothers on head-to-head at an acro comp – provided that is you’re an acro genius too. Acrobatics even discusses topics like training plans, sources of error, psychology, D-Bagging and your legal position as an acro pilot.
Acrobatics is a must for all budding acro pilots and anyone serious about understanding this exciting offshoot of free flight. That said, it should find a place on almost every pilot’s coffee table, if only so they can pass it round to visitors and say, “You want to see what they do with these things nowadays!”
Acrobatics covers the following manoeuvres in detail:
Full Stall
Full Front collapse
Spiral Dive
Wing Overs
Spin
180 degree Backflash
Back Flying
Deep Stall
SAT
Asymmetric Spiral
Looping
Spin to Helico
MacTwist
Misty Flip
Helicopter
Tumbling
SAT to Helico
Helico to Helico
Heilco to SAT
MacTwist to Helico
SAT to SAT
Rhythmic SAT
Infinite Tumbling
Syncronised Acro
Syncro Spiral
SAT-Rodeo
Helico-Rodeo
The book is available from www.xcshop.com.
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