Exactly Glen-there is so many variations you can do.Ex.enter tail first, sideways like you mentioned,inverted climbing and descending.There was one thing no one seems to ever mention and that to do almost all pirouetting tricks you need a very powerful tail,The only tail blades I will fly anymore are NHP,run the biggest dia. you can fit.I fly a Raptor 80 with TT 680 mains and NHP 105's on the tail.Jason Kalbfleisch