Looking To The Sky

Trying Out Hang Gliding

This weekend I had the opportunity to try something new related to flying.  Instead of flying an airplane, I attempted to go hang gliding.

Hang gliding takes a lot more physical work than flying airplanes, but just wasn’t for me.  Perhaps it was because my instructor was a jerk and wore “jorts” (cutoff jean shorts), or perhaps it was the cost and time it would take to really get into hang gliding, either way, not something I’ll plan on continuing until a while later in life.

The idea of hang gliding interests me because of how you can fly without anything mechanical which is the main reason my friend and I signed up.  After starting the class however, we were quite disappointing in this guys attitude to his students who weren’t “serious”.  We spent just over three hours listening to this guy complain about Groupon, people in America, and whatever else he decided to throw at us.  The info was presented very poorly and didn’t make me want to pursue hang gliding.  Especially with him as an instructor.  In fact, we didn’t even get to go “hang gliding” like I was expecting.  We spent $49 for him to tell us about it and show us an introductory lesson the subject.  Wish I would have known that was what I was paying for because I wouldn’t have done it!

Hopefully he changes his ways and becomes a better teacher.  The experience, though taught poorly, was interesting.  I would consider hang gliding again, just not anytime soon.  I have so many other things to focus on!

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