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Landing a hang glider is unnatural. To do it well, you must come
in fast. You must stop the glider and make it tail slide, something you never do
otherwise and never even toy with otherwise as the results would be disastrous.

You have to approach the ground at a speed both vertically and horizontally
which, if you did nothing else, would hurt and would likely put you in the
hospital. Every instinct you have screams at you to not do this.

Every bone in your body begs you to come in at a speed that won't hurt. You want
to slow down, both horizontally and vertically, to a speed which will not harm
you. This is the #1 reason people whack.

Because at this speed (descending at trim), it is insanely difficult to stall
your tips. The nose of the glider will quite happily stall, leaving your tips
flying and pushing the trailing edge up. This pushes the nose down. This is why
pilots feel like the glider is "getting ahead of them".

This concept is crucial to any discussion of landing technique. Before it is
understood, no real progress is made. There is so much emphasis on the rest of
"how to land" and universally, people skip the lynch pin of landing.