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If you don't puke when you are learning to fly acro it means the airplane hasn't left the hangar.

I owned a Citabria for a few years-- I would shake hands with my instructor who would walk back to his office-- I would walk around to the back of the hangar and give it the old technicolor yawn. Walked back over to the fire base (I used to take acro lessons at a field that was the HQ for the Northern New Jersey Fire Service Aviation Unit-- a bunch of Ag-Cats) and lay down on the picnic table with the airport cat, usually for a couple hours, until I felt good enough to fly to my home airport.

You do NOT want to puke on your chutes. Big, big dollars to fix that.

That video is unfortunate-- the guy is doing a power-on stall, or one in a series. Both rear pax do not appear to be wearing their lap belts. . . and the poor girl is obviously sick, and yet Jonny Epaulets is still doing stalls?

I learned this early on with the Citabria-- even though you, Mr. Iron Ballz Aviator, can handle doing a few chandelles or whatever, the passengers can't, and nothing is more of a deterrent to people wanting to fly with you ever again than continuing to jink around the sky when you should be making straight- and level back to your home field. It's not cool or macho making people sick to their stomachs.

Kershner calls it "NSMFA" or "Not So Much Fun Anymore"-- you aren't blowing chunks just yet, but you suddenly don't have interest in another climb to altitude-- you learn to recognize that point and head for home-- this is often the difference between throwing up in the plane and on the ground.