The art of scissors.. or the ZEN way to get the Oversh(I)oot

[Duckwing6]

Been lying in quite a few ladder duells lately and gotta say these usually end up with scissors, either flat, climbing or in the vertical ..

for some reason i always end up out front even tho i chop throttle and pop flaps when necessary (or at least it seems necessary .. just to get toldby my opponent that he did neither or just reduce throttle a bit.

I therfore think i'm either timing the reversal not right or make some other mistakes..

PLEASE enlighten me on WHEN and HOW to reverse in a scissors!

Thanks a Bunch
DW6

[humble]

I'd guess you have one of two possible problems...

1) your really not in a scissors, i.e. your opponent is already well behind your "3 to 9" line and is manuevering in a semi tracking mode

2) your moving in a flat plane while he is yoyoing on you...rolling scissors vs flat scissors I guess is how you'd describe it. If he is still able to operate in the vertical and your not/can't then your toast.

It's possible he's denying you the overshoot and your thinking "scissors" meanwhile he's quarter rolled and gone up.

A scissors fight can only happen if the higher E con overshoots it's target. If the opponent doesn't cross your wingline you can't reverse into him.