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Training for Sportsman: Suggestions.

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OK, so in other hobbies I know you can easily over do each session. For example in skydiving, doing more than 12 training jumps in a day is often counter productive and you don't get much additional benefit to keep going. Doing less than that leaves opportunity on the table. In shooting you could shoot 1K rounds in a day, but after about 300 you start to lose focus.

Of course as new people start training they often can't even do that many rounds/jumps.

So my questions are:

1. How much acro flight time should I try to do each flight/day? One long flight, three short flights?

2. Should I just do the entire sequence, or should I break it down into sections or just single maneuvers?

What I have been doing is taking off and flying the sequence once or twice then working on either specific maneuvers of doing something else not in the sequence like flat or inverted spins, vertical rolls, inverted flight…whatever. Then I go back and do the sequence again and then shoot some landings. I end up flying 0.8 total most of the time.

What is the common practice for getting the most out of training flights?
 

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