This first in a series of articles is taken from here: 
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=26379

Jim Rooney <<jim>> writes:

The #1 issue with landing a hang glider, the nose stalls before
the tips.

There's so much focus on body position and hand position, which do help, but
virtually nothing on how the whole shooting match works. Quite simply, if you
can stall the tips of your glider, you will have a good landing. If you do not
stall them, you will not have a good landing.

How you accomplish this is the source of so much debate. So many inadequate
explanations that all start with "well you just…"

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 slower 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.