Emerald Garden Ascent Challenge: Gold

After I lost my sanity I came to this page to express my utter grief of spending 3hrs on this and still not being able to go up the hill, not even finish the race... Watched vids and stuff but nah

Edit after 9 days and an even bigger struggle on a race (Southern Reach Route Reverse Challenge: Gold) on the Forbidden Reach island: I've discovered a cool technique that will save you many, many hours of racing on similar challenging modes.
I copy some part of the comment I made under that race (Southern Reach Route Reverse Challenge: Gold), if you are crazy - go read the full story there, I got quite emotional xD

To summarize what is the difference and why this is so powerful: Normal "Surge Forward" gives up to around 1100% speed, while with "Skyward Ascent" and some camera play you can literally jump in front of you with a speed of 1250%. Without using some WA or addon to measure your speed it will be hard to comprehend this but the numbers don't lie, and this race proves it. The WA I use is "DragonRiding".
To summarize how to do it, and again, be advised it will take some attempts to master it: Use "Skyward Ascent" (by hitting space button, I find it easier to execute this) and simultaneously move your mouse very fast (in the split of a second) up (to the sky) and down (beneath you) while finally you bring your camera in the direction you want and continue with your race. You have to be diving under the rings and just when you are below the ring to do this technique. Sometimes you will miss the ring - reset and don't give up. Also - be advised that if you turn your camera for too long up and/or down you will actually either lose speed or not gain the-above-1100% speed buff.

You are not alone

/way 25.71 55.07 Emerald Garden Ascent