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Brazilian pilot Marcella Ochoa flew 411km from Rio Grande do Norte on her Enzo 3 on 25 October 2018, breaking three women’s world records
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Alex and Marie Mateos won the foot launch category of the 2018 Paramotor Slalom World Championships, and Wojtek Bogdal is trikes champion
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Brazilian pilot, Marcella Uchoa has just set three new distance records with a single flight: Straight Distance, Straight Distance to a declared goal and Free Distance using up to three turnpoints
Marcela launched from Assu, in Rio Grande do Norte, landing 10 hours later at Tamboril in Ceará, with a straight distance of 411 km.
In Marcella’s words:
“The flying conditions of my record flight was very difficult. Turbulent, blue and very challenging. I was the last one to be towed, so I flew the first kms by myself, then I was able to connect with Frank Brown and Marcelo Prieto and later on we connected with Samuel Nascimento and Rafael Saladini. It was very very turbulent, it was not easy to fly the Enzo S in those conditions, so I was able to eat something only after 2pm. I think I did not fly very well, I always climb well, but that day I could not do it very well. Only between 10-12pm we had clouds. After Quixeramobim, turned blue again and the whole flight there was a thermal inversion making it more turbulent. We had several low saves. And when I thought it was getting weaker (I was …read more
Source:: Ozone Paragliders
Michal Sigel and Joanna Di Grigoli are the overall winners of the 2018 XContest
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Michael Sigel flew 551km from Caicó (Brazil) on 7 October 2018, a new world record for ‘Free distance using up to 3 turnpoints’ (to be ratified)
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Théo won the last acro competition of 2018, the Master Acro in La Reunion island. Followed on the podium by countryman Francois Ragolski. Andres ‘Pepe’ Villamizar and Eliot Nochez both shared the third place.
Source:: Just Acro
It is fair enough to say that Théo de Blic (FRA) is nowadays most skilled and trained acro pilot. He is impressing everybody with his motivation, technical skills, perfectly clean maneuvers, creativity and by delivering new tricks to the scene. He was also one of the very few pilots who pushed the sport to the next level by performing highly technical maneuvers twisted for the first time, setting the new standards for new-school aerobatics. As it feels like that the apex of this evolution if nearing, some old ideas started to emerge in the scene again and a rather crazy experiment began to take place. After David Thibodeau (CAN) opened up a conversation on Facebook about the Full Stall to Infinity, Egor Posokhin (RUS) did not waste time and went out to try it. The videos Egor posted made Théo go on a mission to Lake Garda to see if he could do it! Guess what, the legends of a new connection became reality! Click to read the full of the birth of a new maneuver: Superstall to Infinite!
Source:: Just Acro
With two days getting to know the Arak in perfect conditions, we had a 3,000m base and up to 4 m/s thermals
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Ours is a remarkable sport, a free-flight enclave of passion, adventure, innovation and excitement. This issue is a celebration of that
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Théo reports from Monaco: “After being many times 2nd and 3rd I finally managed to grab the French Acro Champion title today“.
Théo took the titel with a solid 6 points advantage in front of Eliot Nochez. The pilots completed 4 runs over the weekend. Acro Game champion Tim Alongi and World Champion Francois Ragolski were not participating.
Click to see the result tables.
Source:: Just Acro