4th FAI Pan American Championships: T2- The rain stopped and ‘the beautiful game’ (jogo...
"Day 2, we finally had a flyable task, and what a task it was! After 4 days of solid bad weather, this morning waking up felt different. It must have been that bird-like instinct pilots have. Today, we fly". Paolo Bellezze reports live from Baixo Guandu, Brazil, where the first task saw only one pilot in goal, Ignacio Ortiz. Local star Rafael Saldini was 2nd.
Indonesia dominates and wins Paragliding Accuracy World Championship
Here you have the FAI report summarising the competition that took place in Serbia, and the final podiums, with the 3rd position of Colombia, in their first FAI com petition.
Safety note: Harness Woody Valley XR7
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.
4th FAI Pan American Paragliding Championships: The best of the Americas converges to Brazil
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...
Seven turnpoints and 1,138km for the hardest X-Alps ever!
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...
Honorin Hamard beats world record of FAI triangle twice in 10 days!
Paragliding world champion and Ozone’s test pilot managed to pass the 300km mark in FAI triangle on July 9th, with 306 km, and again on July 19th, with 326 km! That is breaking the world record twice in only...
4th FAI Pan American Championships: Day 4, T3- It’s Russia’s time to Tango
First of all, apologies for the late report. Truth being told, I bombed out for the second day in a row and I was so down, I could not bear talking to people in case they had made Goal....
2019 X-Alps, the toughest edition of the race to date
In a clear effort to raise the bar of difficulty of the competition, the new Turnpoints in western Italy and the South of France will lead the participants to race along Europe’s largest mountain range, hiking or flying, from...
4th Pan American Champs: Training day washed out but there’s caipirinha and Rock &...
Saturday 7th of March was due to be the 1st training day in Baixo Guandu, but as our reporter onsite Paolo Bellezze explains: "That's not going to happen". Bad weather in the area means that there will be more Brazilian fun on the ground than in the air these days. Here's what the competitors have been up to.
The Thermal 2 – Horacio Llorens: Flying on “higher ground”
The Spanish acro ace is also a keen adventure seeker who has travelled the world in pursue of new landscapes to be seen from the sky. Horacio joined us in our second Thermal live show to talk about his...
