Comme on parle beaucoup de performance en vol dans ce fil, je vous colle un message récent de Tom Payne provenant de Paragliding Forum.
Je ne fais pas la traduction, c’est un peu long, mais pour ceux qui ne comprennent pas l’anglais un petit coup de Reverso devrait suffire (faites un copier/coller)
http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.asp?lang=FR&action=new
[i]But think back to your best day’s flying. Why was it so good? It’s not just your glider’s performance, because on that day you out-flew pilots on higher performing gliders. It’s not your pilot skill - we’re all improving day by day, month by month, year by year and yet on personal bests are only rarely broken. It’s all these factors - and more - coming together. Thermalling to base is easy. Glides are buoyant. There’s always lift where you expect to find it. You move effortlesssly from one thermal to another. You trace the magic line of here and now to arrive at your destination. It’s not hard. It’s easy. You flow. Why does it work?
I’d argue that the reason is not any physical factor like glider performance or any unquantifiable and unrepeatable aspect like pilot skill. It’s you. That day your head was clear of expectation. Untroubled by fear. You simply launched with an open mind and did what came naturally. There was no declared goal that might or might not be attained. There was no evening commitment dragging you back to launch. There was simply freedom. To fly as far as short as you pleased. You flew for no reason, except for your own pleasure.
Jan, above, nails it. The secret to flying far, the secret to flying further, is to have fun. It’s not something that you can control. You can’t announce: “today, I will enjoy myself!”. Some never achieve this state. They are forever obsessed with the minutae of aspect ratio and glide angle. For them, their performance is forever limited by their perceptions of the constraints of their glider. They didn’t make the transition because their glide angle wasn’t good enough. Today the thermals were weak and everybody knows that their glider doesn’t climb well. Their equipment is an excuse, not a ticket to another world.
Fun, flow and happiness is only something that can happen when you don’t care about it, when you don’t even think about it. Love your gear, revel in all the adventures it brings you, and everything else will follow.[/i]
En psychanalyse il est courant de dire “la guérison est donnée de surcroit” et Tom Payne nous rappelle “amusez vous et les performances viendront de surcroit”…