At 14:07 17 January 2005, W.J. \bill\ Dean \u.K.\.
wrote:
If you read the handbook for your K21s, as amended
by Schleicher Tech. Note
23 of Jan. 91 (your handbooks have been updated I hope?)
you will find
something about the pause, and something about thrusting
the stick straight
onto the forward stop.

Point taken Bill; I was perhaps exaggerating somewhat.

The point I was trying to get over was that unloading
the wing rapidly is probably the best way to prevent
a full blooded spin happening in the first place and
an instinctive stab forward on the stick accompanied
by a dab of opposite rudder has probably saved me severe
embarrassment on several occasions.

Every glider has its own characteristics and, though
Ian Strachans's point about the majority of us not
being test pilots is well put, I would like to think
that anyone who is going to thermal below 1500AGL (i.e.
all of us in the UK) has investigated at a safe height
the spin entry and (quickest) recovery techniques for
whatever they are flying.

Incidentally I don't instruct these days so I'm not
passing on any bad habits!