On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 8:24:44 AM UTC-6, wrote:
Kawa is not necessarily competent in all facets of gliding!

No, of course not! I can't recall his achievements in glider aerobatics or his altitude records. However, as far as soaring contests are concerned, he has not left the position #1 or 2 for 12 (twelve) successive years in the IGC world ranking list, which probably reflects, to some extent, IMHO, how experienced a competition pilot he is. Please see the table at the bottom of this site:

http://rankingdata.fai.org/SGP_displ...hp?pilotid=491