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Xwings custom-make their Hero hang glider race harness to fit the pilot, and then print on it whatever design the pilot chooses. Each one is truly unique.
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The Red Bull Dolomitenmann took place in Lienz, Austria, on 7 September 2019. Chrigel Maurer was the paraglider pilot on the winning team
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Baptiste Lambert and Marcella Uchoa won the Brazil round of the 2019 PWC tour in Andradas, after a nail-biting finish and a stopped final task
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The F1, ‘The Fast One’, is the new competition PPG wing from Apco, who say it’s the highest-performing PPG wing they have ever released
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You’ve got to be innovative and you have to be an expert acro pilot just to take part in the AcroGame, Acro’s sharpest, most powerful acro battle
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Advance celebrated its summer success at the Red Bull X-Alps with a mass hike-and-fly of about 50 pilots
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Sky have updated their lightweight cross-country pod harness: the Skylighter 4 was released in August 2019, and is a hammock-style pod harness
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The first Red Bull Acro Cross ended on Sunday on Sopot, Bulgaria. 2016 World Champion Francois Ragolski (FRA) won the competition with a pretty safe margin, followed by Nicola Donini (ITA) and Jack Pimblett (UK). Christina Kolb, female World Champion and only woman participant finished in the impressive 6th place leaving many big guns behind her.
We collected everything you need to know about the judging concept of this competition. Click to read more!
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Watch the 2019 summary of the 2019 Acro GAME! This documentary type report gives a close view into nowadays highest level of aerobatics paragliding! Big ups to Horacio Llorens, the mastermind of Acro GAME and Ikonemedia production for putting this great video together!
Enjoy!
Source:: Just Acro
The Pico do Gaviao Paragliding World Cup will take place in Brazil from the 7th to the 14th of September.
The enormously successful 2017 Pico do Gaviao World Cup confirmed Brazil as the land of seven-day competitions. In the words of Richard Gallon, ‘Pico do Gaviao is such an amazing launch, take-offs in every direction. So many task options. Every day we do a completely different task with a great variety of flat land and relief flying. You have to fly by feeling as there are no clouds to help you. The Brazilians are really teaching us how to fly’!
Two years ago, Brazilian pilots took the top five trophies and nine out of the top fifteen places. But the Europeans dominated the recent Baixo Guandu Super Final. Who will rule the skies and fly away with the best thermals in Brazil this time?
Equal numbers of Brazilian and French pilots are taking part, proof of the increase in world class Brazilian pilots.
Seven overall World Cup winners and three ladies’ winners will be taking part, all keen to notch up another victory. At least half of those in the thermals above Pico do Gaviao will be there chasing one of the few precious …read more
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