[JoeF]

Hand Hang Gliding, a mHG mode in a raw-hand choice, and a full-on HG mode in a larger wing mode

Raw-Hand Form
Hang gliding's sector called "micro hang gliding (mHG)" includes a sub-sector called "hand hang gliding" (HHG) which differs from hand flying (hand out moving-car window).
HHG has the pilot place his or her hands up in parasol position in a traverse-to-wind and generally parallel-with-the-horizon position; that is, place one's hand up high over one's head; perhaps interweaved fingers from each hand (one of the several options for this HHG mode of flight); control the airfoil shape of the hand wing by cupping and strategic placement of the fingers. When the hand wing is ready: face the wind, if any, and begin to lean the body into the direction of the walk, jog, run. With hand wing up high: control the angle of attack (AoA) of the hands wing(s) to best fit flight desires. When both feet are off the ground mHG occurs with the HHG method. Visualize the flight you wish. Keep your eyes on targets; pick up your feet. You can fly, yes you can! This HHG may be done in active HG airfields for various purposes, say mind readying, wind direction determining, warming up legs and arms, and more. Depending on what one thinks about, how one directs eye and mind, etc. bring on benefits from the HHG. One may hang glide daily on sidewalks, roads, floors, inclines, etc. Every day of the year, no matter the weather. Much of mHG and sectors of HHG can be seen as part of WR (wing running); when both feet are off the ground, then some mHG occurs. Advanced HHG may incorporate mind and body practice over very many issues that may play importantly into other HG sectors.

Another form of HHG involves what was seen on the cover of Argosy magazine, January, 1962, which was part of the HG renaissance.

In this second form of HHG, the hands of the pilot are used to hang from the glider, not a harness. The tendons of the arm form the kite tethers of the hanging method. This HHG method permits little control, but allows some control; the method allows dropping away from the wing in the system, if wanted.

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One form of unfortunate HHG involves FTHI (failure to hook in) hanging from TCF (triangle control frame); there has been some awful injuries from such mode.

Another form of unfortunate HHG involves inadvertent holding onto a parachute or soaring parachute (PG):

Sylmar Hang Gliding Association
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:20 am
Post subject: Paraglider killed in PV
http://shga.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 5b002ca2f3
A paraglider plunged to his death after a gust of wind lifted his chute 100 feet into the air over a rocky Rancho Palos Verdes beach and he lost his grip, authorities said Monday.
Seoung Man Lee, 44, of Torrance was pronounced dead at the scene of the 6:25 p.m. accident Saturday on the beach below the Trump National Golf Club at 1 Ocean Trails Drive, witnesses and the coroner's officials said.
"It was pretty stressful as far as just witnessing it," said Joyce West, who was walking along the beach with her husband. "We were all standing around, `What can we do? What can we do?"'

West said she and her husband walked past some paragliders packing their parachutes shortly before the accident occurred.
When the couple turned around, they looked up and saw the man hanging from the sail as it lifted into the air.
"He was going up so fast," West said.

Coroner's Department Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said witnesses told investigators that Lee was not wearing the harness or his safety helmet as he was inspecting or preparing to store his paragliding apparatus near the shoreline.

He was grasping both steering handles that were secured by lanyards when a gust of wind inflated the canopy, MacWillie said.
"He was lifted from the beach and quickly gained altitude," she said. "After reaching about 100 feet, he lost hold of his grasp and fell to a rocky patch on the ground."

West said Lee lost his grip with his left hand first and then the other hand came free.

"I guess he panicked," she said. "Instead of letting go, he just rode up with it. It took seconds to get up. It was really, really fast."
Authorities said Lee was married. His wife was not with him at the beach.

[Bob Kuczewski]

Another form of unfortunate HHG involves inadvertent holding onto a parachute or soaring parachute (PG):

Sylmar Hang Gliding Association
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:20 am
Post subject: Paraglider killed in PV
http://shga.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 5b002ca2f3
A paraglider plunged to his death after a gust of wind lifted his chute 100 feet into the air over a rocky Rancho Palos Verdes beach and he lost his grip, authorities said Monday.
Seoung Man Lee, 44, of Torrance was pronounced dead at the scene of the 6:25 p.m. accident Saturday on the beach below the Trump National Golf Club at 1 Ocean Trails Drive, witnesses and the coroner's officials said.
"It was pretty stressful as far as just witnessing it," said Joyce West, who was walking along the beach with her husband. "We were all standing around, `What can we do? What can we do?"'

West said she and her husband walked past some paragliders packing their parachutes shortly before the accident occurred.
When the couple turned around, they looked up and saw the man hanging from the sail as it lifted into the air.
"He was going up so fast," West said.

Coroner's Department Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said witnesses told investigators that Lee was not wearing the harness or his safety helmet as he was inspecting or preparing to store his paragliding apparatus near the shoreline.

He was grasping both steering handles that were secured by lanyards when a gust of wind inflated the canopy, MacWillie said.
"He was lifted from the beach and quickly gained altitude," she said. "After reaching about 100 feet, he lost hold of his grasp and fell to a rocky patch on the ground."

West said Lee lost his grip with his left hand first and then the other hand came free.

"I guess he panicked," she said. "Instead of letting go, he just rode up with it. It took seconds to get up. It was really, really fast."
Authorities said Lee was married. His wife was not with him at the beach.

When I was taking paragliding lessons, I was taught that pilots should NEVER connect themselves to a glider without being prepared for flight. This is true for hang gliders as well as paragliders, but hang gliders tend to be more controllable on the ground and less susceptible to being lifted like this. I believe that's because you can at least control the pitch angle of a hang glider on the ground, but that's much more difficult to do with a paraglider.

[Frank Colver]

My balloon was always tethered to my truck until I was strapped in the swingseat and ready to fly.

Frank

[JoeF]

Excellent practice, Frank.
The art of having a line to stay a balloon or kite system (hang glider, PG, energy kite system, ...)
is not practiced enough in my estimation. Unexpected gusts will keep playing havoc to wing systems meant to fly.
Birds face the prevailing wind with a readiness for flight. Many birds grab lines, branches, etc. in order stay in control of matters.

Lines may be attached to soil-filled bags, gabions, trees, shrub trunks, poles, boulders, buried soft anchors, water-filled bags, wire-assistant persons, cars, trucks, ...

[Frank Colver]

I've even pondered the prospect of using plastic buckets (like Home Depot orange), set on the surface, filled with sand, as temporary additional tie-down anchors at Dockweiler. They could be dumped and removed at the end of a flying day. This is the first I've mentioned that possibility to anyone, however. Still thinking.

Frank

[JoeF]

Frank,
I'd further your offer. Instead of a bucket that could spill, that holds only one bucket's worth of sand, that is hard, that could roll, that could crack:
Consider sturdy fabric bags to be kind of gabion anchor. Fill the bags with sand (size could be negotiated). At day's end: empty the bags. Bags store soft. Bags within bags.

Consider flat soft fabric anchors with quarter connection points. Move sand away; place fabric flat anchor; put lots of sand on the fabric anchor; tie to the quarters as one; presto: large soft sand anchor.