1. Other piltos
   1. Thermaling in close proximity
      1. Practise with your friends
      2. Fly overseas with 100 pilots in one thermal
2. Equipment
   1. Line check
   2. Material check
   3. Harness
3. Instruments
   1. Battery
   2. Memory cleared
   3. Waypoints
   4. Understand the instrument
      1. Manual with you
4. Reserve
   1. Pack
   2. Checks
5. Winning
   1. Why
   2. Your class
   3. What is the reward
   4. Where do you want to go
      1. Best in SOuth Africa
      2. Best in your class
      3. Best in the world
      4. Best in this competition
6. Speed to fly
   1. Mcready in XC Country
   2. Now your polar
   3. Understand it
   4. Condor game
      1. Create 3d Awareness
   5. Know your instrument in comp
      1. Final glide
7. Preparation
   1. Subtopic 1
8. Risk
   1. Insurance
   2. What are you willing to endure
   3. Understand
   4. Consequences
   5. What glider to fly
   6. Upgrade strategy
9. Bad Landings
   1. Why does it happen
      1. Bad decisions higher up
      2. Not deciding before hand
      3. Not thinking clearly !
      4. Winning
      5. Beating your friend
10. Task
    1. Book
    2. Rigth everything down
    3. Tape on instrument
    4. How to go manual mode
    5. Backup
    6. Draw the task out
    7. Put in the angles
    8. Wind directions
       1. Expeted changes
       2. Weather change
    9. Understand cylinders
       1. Window open
       2. Start
       3. Land by time
       4. Call in
       5. Make sure about the other pilots landing safely
    10. Understand various type of tasks
11. Social
    1. Enjoy it !
12. Why we fly
    1. Fun
    2. Competitive
    3. To get away from work
    4. Frustration
    5. Pure silence
13. Comps
    1. Safety
       1. Are you willing to fly close to the mountain
       2. Height where you go full speedbar
       3. No scratching behind low mountains
       4. Give space to fly out to a safe landing
       5. Buckle up
          1. Create Check list to run through before take-off
    2. Weather
       1. Spotgraphs
       2. Trends
       3. Laptop
       4. Taskboard
       5. Windguru
       6. Spot
       7. SA weather
       8. XcSkies
       9. Download this info the morning before the comp
          1. Programs like Morning Coffee on the dolphin browser - Open websites automatically
       10. Where is the sun shining late afternoon
    3. Attitude
       1. Preparation
          1. Every morning in the shower think of three things you did well in your life
             1. Create a postive attitude for the day
          2. Setup a mindmap what you have achieved in your life
    4. Site
       1. Google Earth
          1. Learn the site
       2. Thermal Spots
       3. kml
          1. Get KML files from competion oranisers
          2. From XC sites
             1. Search flight at the competition site
             2. You can learn a lot
             3. House thermals
             4. Boost your confidence
    5. Fun
       1. Remeber to have fun
       2. All the people at a comp like flying
       3. Good vibe
       4. Every body smiles
       5. There is recovery
       6. Medical
       7. You learn a lot
       8. Fly within your constraints
    6. Control
       1. Emotional
          1. How will you react when landing short
          2. Come in the habit of analysing your flight afterwards
             1. If you know you did something wrong or could do something better then put it to bed
             2. Start focusing on your next flight
       2. Fear
          1. Make small goals for your flight
             1. e.g Climb High
             2. Will make a decision when high
             3. It will be then this or this or this (do the options before hand)
          2. Distractions
             1. Routine
          3. If you don't have goals (just boating around) then you start thinking about what can go wrong
          4. Think why are you scared
             1. If you high you have a backup reserve
             2. Dont stress
             3. Low behind a mountain
             4. Get out of there
             5. No landing
             6. Nect time dont put yourself in that spot
             7. Bang Babalas
             8. Land to fly another day
             9. Should you have been flying ?
          5. Shaking leg on take-off
             1. Get high
             2. drink water
             3. relax
             4. Eat sweats
14. Recovery
15. Chili Chips
16. Other things you can do
    1. Run
    2. Golf
    3. Bike