Flashfrost Flyover Reverse Challenge: Gold

I struggled on this for over an hour, here is hopefully what will help people:

You are required to master what I think is referred to as the "dolphin" technique with Skyward Ascent.

I thought I was good at Skyward Ascent but after watching a video and practicing I realized I didn't even know how to properly use it this whole time even having done all previous Golds of all released races.

The key is you need to have your camera pointed at an UPWARD angle (meaning you will be starting to fly up) when hitting Skyward Ascent, the moment you start to skyrocket upward drag your camera down (quickly) and fly at any downward angle for as much of the speed boost as you can.

If you can get this right is will be VERY obvious as you start going ~2-3x the speed you normally would when using Surge Forward. Chaining these together at key points where it is obvious you will be going up makes all other areas easy as your coasting speed is insanely fast.

After mastering this I started beating races with 5-6+ seconds left before missing gold with ease.

Love how those stupid dreamsurge orbs block your vision with the rewards, usually coming out of the tunnel where the next ring is close to the ground.

I did get it but it took absolutely ages as I'm not very good at the skyward ascent thing. I would say this one took as many tries as all the previous (non-challenge) gold run attempts I made to get the other achievements.

I really feel these timers are far too tight if that's how they're supposed to be done. Dear help us aul fogies with bad reflexes and I'm sure the sudden change in vision from looking up then down isn't going to be good for those with motion sickness.

Also, anyone else get runs that you feel are fast only to be 4 seconds slower than your best times?

Feel like this one is damn near impossible. Anyone got any tips for it? I am usually like 3s off. But have gotten within half a second once.