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Content overview:
1. Intro & important safety notice (03:08) 2. The Box: placement and drift & management of altitude (09:47) 3. Typical emergency situations and reserve deployment (20:27) 4. Asymmetric SAT (11:46) 5. Helicopter (19:46) 6. Misty Flip (18:18) 7. Dynamic Full Stall to Helico (03:38) 8. SAT to Helico (08:27) 9. Helico to SAT (07:21) 10. Helico to Helico (07:27) 11. Misty to Heli (06:25)
It is fair enough to say that Théo de Blic (FRA) is nowadays most skilled and trained acro pilot. He is impressing everybody with his motivation, technical skills, perfectly clean maneuvers, creativity and by delivering new tricks to the scene. He was also one of the very few pilots who pushed the sport to the next level by performing highly technical maneuvers twisted for the first time, setting the new standards for new-school aerobatics. As it feels like that the apex of this evolution if nearing, some old ideas started to emerge in the scene again and a rather crazy experiment began to take place. After David Thibodeau (CAN) opened up a conversation on Facebook about the Full Stall to Infinity, Egor Posokhin (RUS) did not waste time and went out to try it. The videos Egor posted made Théo go on a mission to Lake Garda to see if he could do it! Guess what, the legends of a new connection became reality! Click to read the full of the birth of a new maneuver: Superstall to Infinite!
Following up a conversation on Facebook, Egor Posokhin and Théo de Blic went out there and tried to see if the legend about a crazy maneuver could become reality...? Théo (on the picture) is currently spending some time at Lake Garda flying his Gradient Agility 14m2 to experiment with this highly dangerous maneuver over water. So far not much success but he just told us that he believes he might be able to manage it by the end of the weekend. We will catch up with these two pilots next week to give you an update with some videos!
Just about 6 years have passed since Raul Rodriguez's greatest discovery the Infinity Tumbling. An unbelievable maneuver that nobody expected to be possible.
At the same time together with this invention a new dream was also born: if it is possible to build up a horizontally rotating SAT into a straight-up vertical movement (Rythmic-SAT to Infinity) it could also be possible to come back down into a SAT again to the other side! But how!? How to do this "Anti-Rythmic" and work down the angle from Infinity without loosing massive amount of energy in an already extremely sensible movement, just working tight on its limits?! In the past 5-6 years these thoughts and theory probably ran through the minds of most top acro pilots but still, nobody really heard of any serious attempts trying this connection - probably because of the scary, instable moments during the transition.
On the 22nd of October 2010 in Ölüdeniz, Pal Takats managed the first ever successful execution of the "Anti-Rythmic" coming down to a SAT from Infinity and soon after the dream of "Esfera" came true - the maneuver from SAT to SAT that is turning to the other direction, linked with Infinity in the middle. The name "Esfera" is a Spanish word that means: "sphere", "globe", "ball".
Pal is using the new U-Turn Thriller '11, that finally made this possible! The '11 is the very latest version of the glider that was slightly adjusted and reinforced as a result of one year's new experiences gained during the test-flights and the Tandem Infinity project.
