Crestline Soaring Society

Many of us had fun Sunday 6-8-08 for a couple of hours over Marshall and Cloud. After we landed Tom Swanson described how he got to 9800 while we were flapping our wings as hard as we could to stay at 4200. Tom talked about really banking up to stay in the tight cores. But I had tried that several times without success, in fact I seemed to do better by using wider circles than I usually do.
A few days ago Ken Howells wrote about working cores. Here’s a quote: “I had to really throw my weight sideways a couple of times to stay in ornery cores, but there were several 800-1000 FPM ones where I banked up steep and just shoved the bar out.”
If any our CSS Sky Lords get some time could you describe some of your techniques? Not a dissertation but maybe a few pointers. How steep do you bank and for how long? (When I use a high bank I’m always leery about increased sink rate.) Can you feel the lift at the nose when you’re hitting it right? Then about shoving the bar out: is that an advanced move? If so what are the dangers?
We hero-worshiping H3’s would be grateful for any master advice.

Mike Z