Like all early C150s, mine was hopelessly under-powered. On soft or high grass fields, I used neutral elevator with flaps up to give me the best acceleration. At 5mph below Vso, I dropped 10 degrees and gently pulled back. Dunno if this guy did that, but full-up elevator is not going to get you off the ground earlier.
In all fairness, the subject was decidedly vertical: helicopter, long-line, aircraft. He would have needed to stand another thousand feet back to get that vertical composition in landscape.
Doesn’t matter because to display it properly we have to do the electronic equivalent of moving back 1,000 feet to accommodate the vertical image in a horizontal space. One of the limitations of the highly templated environment of the internet.
Bingo!
He was driving an extra 100-200 pounds of weight down onto those main tyres with all that down force being generated by aft stick.
For soft ground you want minimum drag on the wheels to gain speed quickly and then drop a little flap to unload the wheels even more. Yea, basically let it lift off flat and let it accelerate further in ground effect.
Butt upward in that case? :-o)
To win that, one has to die. (I’m pretty sure it’s been discontinued. Too bad.)
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