Competition & XC

Arnold Castro is an Argentinian pilot who´s been competing for only 2 years and has already stood on multiple podiums, in 2019 with his EN B. This pilot plans his progression to the highest category without hurries, because like he says ¨the good thing about paragliding is that age is not a limitation¨. In this short interview, he shares with us some tips to get started in competitions and make the most out of it.

Sierra de Segura (Spain) will hold again one of the main free flight events in Europe, together with the XXI International Air Cinema Festival, and the VI Open El Yelmo XC.

November 1st, 2016, brought superb conditions for XC to the Brazilian Northeast, where several personal bests were broken, with a number of flights exceeding the 400km barrier and two of them on EN B (easy intermediate level) gliders -...

Racing a straight-line distance of 1,138km from Salzburg to Monaco, 32 world class athletes from 21 countries will hike and fly via 7 turnpoints in 7 different countries - including Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France and for the first...

Task 4….what a day! Holy Moly… Second to last day and Baixo Guando finally starts to show its colours.  Gentle, tricky conditions lower down and some nice +3 +4 closer to the clouds.  Rain was almost always somewhere in the...

Today is cancelled, but tomorrow looks ON! Paolo Bellezze reports the last minute from Baixo Guandu.

Woody Valley has issued this notice so that all the pilots who own their X-Rated 7 harness, with serial numbers from 1 to 1134, check them and make all the necessary changes before flying.

On Thursday 13 of October 2016, Brazilian pilots Donizete Lemos "Bigote", Rafael Saladini and Samuel Nascimento, managed to push the bar of paragliding distance a little further and up to 564 km, in the northeast of their country, after...

Pierre Remy did not hesitate to qualify this championship, held on March 20 to 30 of March 2019 and where 9 tasks were flown in conditions that went from poor to amazing, as "the most intense of my pilot...

The time has come for 117 of the very best pilots from 18 different American Nations to battle it out during 7 epic days and crown their Champion.  Most important yet, a smaller selection of those pilots would have...