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A crabbing approach and kicking out the yaw before touchdown is a common technique in gliders. It's the only one I've used to date.

This video was a student's first crosswind landing. (Crosswind coming from the left.) I deliberately had him fly a very high/long/wide pattern to give him lots of time to see the effect of crosswind drift on downwind and final, the need to crab.

The first 35 seconds of the video are at about 3x speed, then it goes to normal speed.

The sun angle was also helpful, giving us a shadow of the glider that helped judge height above the runway.

The glider was an L-23 Super Blanik:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LET_L-23_Super_Blan%C3%ADk

It's a high wing glider.

Just before touchdown I was on the rudders to kick out the yaw and reduce side loads on the landing gear. (It seems that for most of us...learning to control yaw is one of the last skills we develop.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpfcfjCV9bA

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