Tea very pleasant thanks
At least IMCR pilots have a structured training of sorts Glider pilots do not.
Sounds like the comment of someone who's not familiar with gliding training. One of the reasons I don't glide nowadays was the persistent habit of instructors pulling cable breaks, running out of height in the circuit, slow (or fast) launches and the tug losing power on an aerotow. All deliberately done as a test of a person they didn't know. VERY safety conscious but also frustrating.
Re the bit about being sucked into the bottom of cloud. It's reasonably well known that those nice puffy cumulus couds result from water vapour condensing out due to adiabatic cooling and they therefore sit on a column of rising air. I'm no great shakes as a glider pilot but I've had to pull the brakes out as the horizon started to disappear, pushing the stick forward being insufficient. Being an inveterate coward I assure you that there was not the slightest thing dodgy about the weather at the time.